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Bingbot

Operated by MicrosoftSearch
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Verify Bingbot IP Address

Verify if an IP address truly belongs to Microsoft, using official verification methods. Enter both IP address and User-Agent from your logs for the most accurate bot verification.

Bingbot is Microsoft’s primary web crawler, responsible for discovering and indexing content for Bing Search and other Microsoft services. The crawler fetches HTML, structured data, images, and metadata to understand page relevance and ranking signals. Crawl activity varies based on site authority, update frequency, and sitemap signals. Its purpose is to keep Bing’s search index fresh, accurate, and aligned with user search intent across Microsoft platforms. RobotSense.io verifies Bingbot using Microsoft’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine Bingbot traffic is identified.

This bot officially honors Crawl-Delay rule.

User Agent Examples

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari/537.36  (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Example user agent strings for Bingbot

Robots.txt Configuration for Bingbot

Robots.txt User-Agent:Bingbot

Use this identifier in your robots.txt User-agent directive to target Bingbot.

Recommended Configuration

Our recommended robots.txt configuration for Bingbot:

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

Completely Block Bingbot

Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:

User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /

Completely Allow Bingbot

Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

Block Specific Paths

Block this bot from specific directories or pages:

User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/

Allow Only Specific Paths

Block everything but allow specific directories:

User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /
Allow: /public/
Allow: /blog/

Set Crawl Delay

Limit how frequently Bingbot can request pages (in seconds):

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

Note: This bot officially honors the Crawl-delay directive.