Bingbot
Microsoft · Feeds a search index
Bingbot is Bing's standard crawler and handles most of its crawling each day. Besides robots.txt, Bing Webmaster Tools lets you set its crawl rate hour by hour, and the Verify Bingbot tool checks whether an IP really belongs to it.
Fact sheet
- Operator
- Microsoft
- What it is for
- It is Bing's crawler. Microsoft Copilot leans on the same index.
- Assistant it feeds
- Microsoft Copilot
- Counts towards the Parsigo score
- Yes. It feeds the index of one of the assistants we measure.
- Official documentation
- www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0
- Official IP ranges
- JSON list
If you block it
You drop out of Bing and, with it, out of Microsoft Copilot's answers, which lean on the same index.
Allow or block
A group of its own makes Bingbot ignore the “User-agent: *” rules. If you have Disallow lines there that should still apply to it, repeat them inside its group. To allow it, writing nothing is usually enough.
Allow
User-agent: Bingbot Allow: /
Block
User-agent: Bingbot Disallow: /
Test it on your site
We run the diagnostic on your site and show you whether Bingbot can get in, with the robots.txt line that decides it. Free, no sign-up.
Worth knowing
Microsoft Copilot leans on the Bing index.