Bing Webmaster Tools

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Bing Webmaster Tools shows Bing search traffic, top queries and pages, crawl statistics and crawl problems, sitemaps, and what Bing knows about a URL.

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Bing has no environments, and one API key covers every site in the account, so make one shared connection. The provider is bing; the CLI is bwt.

reckon connect bing --org acme --provider bing

Run the login yourself in a terminal:

reckon login bing

It runs bwt auth login, which takes your API key at a hidden prompt and stores it in the OS keychain. Reckon gives this CLI your real home directory so the keychain works, and keeps its config per connection. The key is in Bing Webmaster Tools under Settings, API Access, API Key.

Or fill in ~/.reckon/orgs/acme/secrets/bing.env:

BWT_API_KEY=replace_me

BWT_ACCESS_TOKEN works instead of BWT_API_KEY. BWT_SITE sets a default site.

reckon verify bing runs bwt auth status --verify -o json.

Read-only contractCopy Anchor Link

Reckon runs bwt with BWT_READ_ONLY=true and BWT_NO_INPUT=true, so the CLI refuses URL and sitemap submissions, IndexNow submissions, setting changes and every other remote write. It also refuses --access-token, --api-key, --profile, --config, --read-only and --no-input, and the auth login, auth logout, auth use, config, sites use, indexnow key and update commands. The agent picks a site per command with --site.

Key commandsCopy Anchor Link

reckon run bing -- sites list -o json
reckon run bing -- stats summary --days 28 --compare previous -o json
reckon run bing -- stats queries --sort clicks --limit 100 -o json
reckon run bing -- stats pages --sort clicks --limit 100 -o json
reckon run bing -- crawl stats -o json
reckon run bing -- crawl issues -o json
reckon run bing -- url info https://www.example.com/pricing -o json
reckon run bing -- sitemaps list -o json

Bing returns its own top rows with no server-side date range or paging, and bwt filters dates locally, so its numbers are not complete history. An empty crawl issues list does not prove the site has none.

LinksCopy Anchor Link

• bing-webmaster-cli documentation
• bing-webmaster-cli source
• Bing Webmaster Tools