Microsoft bot verification

Microsoft publishes an IP allow-list for Bingbot. DutyRadar reports a verdict per request.

Bots covered

Bingbot Traditional bot ◑ IP-verified

Sample request

curl -X POST https://api.dutyradar.com/v1/classify \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer dr_live_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; bingbot/2.0) Chrome/116.0.1938.76 Safari/537.36"}'

Sample response

{
  "data": {
    "verdict": "verified_bot",
    "operator": "microsoft",
    "bot": {
      "name": "Bingbot"
    },
    "category": "traditional_bot"
  },
  "error": null
}

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