BingBot

Microsoft Bing web search crawler.

Jan 2015
first seen in our archive: 232
distinct User-Agents: 331K+
requests seen: search
category

Official: www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0·Vendor: Microsoft

Parse it

Send the User-Agent to the API, device, OS, browser, and bot detection come back in one response. BingBot is identified by name when the string matches.

curl -s "https://api.parseapi.com/useragent" \
  -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $PARSEAPI_KEY"

Get started Useragent API

Example User-Agents

Real strings from our archive that resolve to BingBot. Each opens a full breakdown.

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)250K requests · first Mar 2016