Microsoft · Search indexes
Bingbot
Bing's standard crawler, which handles most of its crawling and builds the Bing search index. Blocking it removes your pages from Bing.
- robots.txt name
bingbot- User agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36- Category
- Search indexes: Crawl the web to build the index of a search engine or AI search.
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes
- Official documentation
- https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0
- Published IP ranges
- https://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingbot.json
Checked against the official documentation on October 17, 2026.
Block or allow it in robots.txt
Add these lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. To block it everywhere:
User-agent: bingbot
Disallow: /To allow it everywhere except one folder:
User-agent: bingbot
Disallow: /private/Is it really this bot?
Anyone can copy a user agent. To be sure a request comes from Microsoft, compare its IP address with the ranges the company publishes.
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