What Is contxbot?
Contxbot is Amazon's web crawler that processes and indexes webpage content to understand website topics and context for delivering relevant advertisements through Amazon's advertising network. You can see how often contxbot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.
Agent Type
Expected Behavior
Intelligence gatherers crawl websites to collect business intelligence, competitive data, and market insights on behalf of their clients. These tools may use artificial intelligence to identify and extract information like pricing changes, product listings, brand mentions, or trademark usage. Crawl patterns are highly variable. Sites relevant to a client's monitoring goals may be visited frequently (daily or hourly), while others may never be crawled. They typically focus on specific pages or data points rather than comprehensive site crawls.
Detail
| Operated By | Amazon |
| Last Updated | 1 day ago |
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Top Website Blocking Trend Over Time
The percentage of the world's top 1000 websites who are blocking contxbot
Overall Intelligence Gatherer Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from intelligence gatherers
User Agent String
| Example | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;contxbot/1.0) |
Robots.txt
In this example, all pages are blocked. You can customize which pages are off-limits by swapping out / for a different disallowed path.
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: contxbot # https://https://darkvisitors.com/agents/contxbot
Disallow: /Frequently Asked Questions About contxbot
Should I Block contxbot?
Probably not, especially if you benefit from an intelligence gathering service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.
How Do I Block contxbot?
You can block contxbot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics to check whether it's actually following them.