officestorebot

search-engine officestorebot

Microsoft Office Store web crawler bot

About this crawler

officestorebot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern officestorebot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block officestorebot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: officestorebot
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
officestorebot
Pattern
officestorebot
Tags
search-engine
Reference
https://www.bing.com?ref=aka&shorturl=officestorebot
Added
2020/03/02
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; officestorebot/1.0; +https://aka.ms/officestorebot)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow officestorebot:

User-agent: officestorebot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} officestorebot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "officestorebot") { return 403; }
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