Everything You Want to Know about BingBot
Bingbot is Microsoft's standard web crawler, handling most of Bing's crawling needs to keep Bing Search results fresh.
Last verified August 15, 2026 against Microsoft's published crawler docs
Why it's crawling your site
Bingbot crawls your site to discover and index content for Bing Search results and related Microsoft products.
How BingBot views your website
BingBot renders JavaScript before reading your page, so client-side content, hydrated components, and JS-injected text are all visible to it, the same as a browser would see.
Paste a URL for the rendered-vs-crawled diff, blocked resources, and the sections that never reach the bot.
How to block BingBot
Add the rule below to your site's robots.txt. Most crawlers, including BingBot, check for changes within 24 hours.
User-agent: bingbot
Disallow: /Need the full walkthrough?
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