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BingVideoPreview

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Verify BingVideoPreview 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.

BingVideoPreview is Microsoft’s crawler for fetching video-related content to generate previews, thumbnails, and metadata for Bing’s video search experiences. It retrieves video files, poster images, structured data, captions, and surrounding context. This crawler does not perform full-site indexing; instead, it focuses specifically on video assets and the information required to power Bing’s video carousels and preview interfaces. Activity is targeted and relatively low-volume, driven by pages that contain or reference video content. RobotSense.io verifies BingVideoPreview using Microsoft’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine BingVideoPreview traffic is identified.

This bot officially honors Crawl-Delay rule.

User Agent Examples

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; BingVideoPreview/1.0; +https://aka.ms/microsoftbots) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36
				
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BingVideoPreview/1.0; +https://aka.ms/microsoftbots) 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; BingVideoPreview/1.0; +https://aka.ms/microsoftbots)
Example user agent strings for BingVideoPreview

Robots.txt Configuration for BingVideoPreview

Robots.txt User-Agent:BingVideoPreview

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

Recommended Configuration

Our recommended robots.txt configuration for BingVideoPreview:

User-agent: BingVideoPreview
Allow: /

Completely Block BingVideoPreview

Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:

User-agent: BingVideoPreview
Disallow: /

Completely Allow BingVideoPreview

Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:

User-agent: BingVideoPreview
Allow: /

Block Specific Paths

Block this bot from specific directories or pages:

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

Allow Only Specific Paths

Block everything but allow specific directories:

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

Set Crawl Delay

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

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

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