MsnBot-Media
Microsoft Bing media search bot
About this crawler
MsnBot-Media is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern MsnBot-Media in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block MsnBot-Media traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.20%
Technical details
- Name
- MsnBot-Media
- Pattern
MsnBot-Media- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534+ (KHTML, like Gecko) MsnBot-Media /1.0b
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow MsnBot-Media:
User-agent: MsnBot-Media
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MsnBot-Media [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "MsnBot-Media") {
return 403;
}
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