Adidxbot
Bing's advertising index web crawler bot
About this crawler
Adidxbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Adidxbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as advertising, search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Adidxbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.056%
Technical details
- Name
- Adidxbot
- Pattern
Adidxbot- Tags
- advertising, search-engine
- Reference
- https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0
- rDNS suffixes
.search.msn.com- Instances
- 0 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Adidxbot with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.search.msn.com
Sample User-Agent strings
no public sample user-agents recorded.
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Adidxbot:
User-agent: Adidxbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Adidxbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Adidxbot") {
return 403;
}
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