Bingbot

Microsoft crawler, purpose: search.

The Bingbot record on Rattlesnakes By Mail is the full published file on Bingbot, a crawler from Microsoft. Each fact on the Bingbot record is a dated claim with a verbatim quote from Microsoft, a source URL, a verification method and a confidence. Sections run in a fixed order: Identity, Claims, Observations, Changes, Questions, Notes.

117

requests to this site from Bingbot, 2026-09-15 to 2026-10-08

100%

of requests verified against Microsoft's published identity

Bingbot is Microsoft's crawler. The chart counts the pages it read on this site, day by day.

On a typical day the site logs about 3 requests from Bingbot; the busiest day was 2026-10-08 with 17 requests, 6 times the typical day.

Requests per day from Bingbot, 2026-09-15 to 2026-10-08. Source: this site's own request logs, each request checked against the vendor's published identity. Method: /method.

Identity

vendor: Microsoft
kind: crawler
purpose: search
ua_token: bingbot
robots_token: bingbot
ip_list_url: https://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingbot.json
docs_url: https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0
status: active

Crawls the web for Bing Search and, per Microsoft, feeds Copilot and Bing Chat surfaces. Microsoft documents a separate opt-out from generative-AI training use via the noarchive robots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header rather than a distinct Copilot user agent; no Copilot-specific crawler token is named in Microsoft's public documentation as of 2026-09-13.

Claims

Field	Value	Method	Confidence
cites_sources	`yes`	vendor_doc	high
follows_noarchive	`yes`	vendor_doc	high
honours_crawl_delay	`yes`	vendor_doc	high
opt_out_mechanism	`yes`	vendor_doc	high
publishes_ip_list	`yes`	vendor_doc	high
purpose_documented	`yes`	vendor_doc	high
reads_llms_txt	`not_documented`	vendor_doc	n/a
respects_robots_txt	`yes`	vendor_doc	high
separate_search_and_training_tokens	`no`	vendor_doc	high
user_agent_string_full	`Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)`	vendor_doc	high
verifiable_by_rdns	`yes`	vendor_doc	high

Observations

Requests per day from Bingbot, 2026-09-15 to 2026-10-08. Bingbot made 117 requests in this window.

requests, last 30 days: 117
verified requests, last 30 days: 117
verified share, last 30 days: 100%
daily rows recorded: 18

Changes

Date	Claim	Kind	New value
2026-09-14	respects_robots_txt	new	yes
2026-09-14	honours_crawl_delay	new	yes
2026-09-14	publishes_ip_list	new	yes
2026-09-14	verifiable_by_rdns	new	yes
2026-09-14	purpose_documented	new	yes
2026-09-14	separate_search_and_training_tokens	new	no
2026-09-14	cites_sources	new	yes
2026-09-14	reads_llms_txt	new	not_documented
2026-09-14	user_agent_string_full	new	Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
2026-09-14	opt_out_mechanism	new	yes
2026-09-14	follows_noarchive	new	yes

Notes

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