bingbot
Microsoft's web crawling bot for Bing search indexing
About this crawler
bingbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern bingbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block bingbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
1.6%
Technical details
- Name
- bingbot
- Pattern
bingbot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0
- rDNS suffixes
.search.msn.com- Instances
- 14 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely bingbot 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
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows Phone 8.1; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; NOKIA; Lumia 530) like Gecko (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) SitemapProbe
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A465 Safari/9537.53 (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A465 Safari/9537.53 (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A465 Safari/9537.53 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A465 Safari/9537.53 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Mozilla/5.0 (seoanalyzer; compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Chrome/103.0.5060.134 Safari/537.36
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow bingbot:
User-agent: bingbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} bingbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "bingbot") {
return 403;
}
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