BingBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTBing's main web crawler used to index content for Bing search results. Operated by Microsoft.
What is BingBot?
BingBot is a web crawler operated by Microsoft. Bingbot crawler and handles most of Bing's crawling needs each day. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.
Identification
bingbotWhy it crawls your site
BingBot crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by Microsoft as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
IP ranges
Requests from BingBot originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.
Block or allow BingBot
Add a Disallow rule for bingbot/ in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block BingBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: bingbot/ Disallow: / # Allow BingBot full access User-agent: bingbot/ Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows bingbot/. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Microsoft's documentation.
Traffic & trends
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From the community
Recent Reddit discussion mentioning this bot.
Related bots
Other crawlers operated by Microsoft.
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Data sources
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