# Amazonbot abusive crawling

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [May 1, 2021, 10:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/amazonbot-abusive-crawling/188803 "2021-05-01T10:53:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![deeplow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@deeplow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/deeplow)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 10:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/amazonbot-abusive-crawling/188803/1 "2021-05-01T10:53:35Z")

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Hi there, I wanted to report some aggressive crawling by the bot with the user agent

```plaintext
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.2.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.2 Safari/600.2.5 (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)

```

It seems to be [a bot by amazon](https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot) but I couldn’t check the originating IP addresses to confirm that.

This is what the last 5 days look like:

 ![crawler3](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/c/cce3cf73fd9263f3141f6b2cd6408cfea56c99cd.png)

For comparison, this our user agents table for the last two days. 39649 vs 457

 ![crawler4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/d/bdb5b1a9f74c4addf48ba68b8458a789262cf688.png)

I personally don’t care too much about this as we’re not the ones doing the hosting and we haven’t noticed performance issues but CDCK is. So I figured this could be interesting to share here.

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