# Bing Mobile-Friendliness Test, Crawling & Indexing Audit API (`dev00/bing-mobile-friendliness-checker`) Actor

Audit any webpage URL for Bing Mobile-Friendliness compliance, passed mobile checks, warnings, Crawling Allowed status, and Indexing Allowed permissions. Keyless & unthrottled.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dev00/bing-mobile-friendliness-checker.md
- **Developed by:** [dev00](https://apify.com/dev00) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, SEO tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 bing mobile-friendliness audits

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Bing Mobile-Friendliness Test, Crawling & Indexing Audit API

Instantly audit any URL or domain for **Bing Mobile-Friendliness compliance**, **passed mobile checks**, **warnings & issues**, **Crawling Allowed permission**, and **Indexing Allowed status**. Powered by direct keyless web inspection. **No API Key required**. 100% procedural User-Agent anti-blocking included.

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### ✨ Key Features

- 📱 **Bing Mobile-Friendliness Validation** — Checks viewport configurations, tap target sizes, and responsive design rendering.
- 🏷️ **Categorized Check Output** — Automatically separates audit results into **`passed_checks`** (green checks) and **`warnings`** (alert items).
- 🌐 **100% English Localization** — Forces English output formatting regardless of geographic IP location.
- 🟢 **Crawl Allowed Audit** — Verifies `robots.txt` compliance, server reachability, and HTTP status codes (`crawl_allowed: "Yes" | "No"`).
- 🔍 **Indexing Allowed Status** — Detects `<meta name="robots" content="noindex">` and HTTP response headers (`indexing_allowed: "Yes" | "No"`).
- 🛡️ **Procedural Anti-Blocking Randomization** — 100% dynamic User-Agent generation on every request (Chrome, Firefox, Safari across Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android).
- 🔐 **No API Keys or Auth Needed** — Unthrottled keyless execution without daily API quota exhaustion.

***

### 📥 Input Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `url` | String | Yes | `https://apify.com` | Target website URL or domain to audit for Bing Mobile-Friendliness and Indexing permissions. |

#### Input Example (JSON):

```json
{
  "url": "https://apify.com"
}
```

***

### 📤 Output Format Example

```json
{
  "url": "https://apify.com",
  "crawl_allowed": "Yes",
  "indexing_allowed": "Yes",
  "http_status": 200,
  "audit_status": "MOBILE_FRIENDLY",
  "is_mobile_friendly": true,
  "summary": {
    "passed_checks_count": 4,
    "warnings_count": 1
  },
  "passed_checks": [
    "Viewport configured correctly",
    "Page content fits device width",
    "Text on the page is readable",
    "Links and tap targets are sufficiently large and touch-friendly"
  ],
  "warnings": [
    "Some resources on the page are blocked by robots.txt configuration"
  ]
}
```

***

### 🆚 Why Bing Mobile-Friendliness Audit API vs. Standard Scraping

| Feature | Bing Mobile-Friendliness API | Standard Web Scraping |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **API Key Requirement** | ⚡ Keyless (Zero API Key needed) | ❌ Mandatory API keys / Proxies required |
| **Mobile Responsiveness Audit** | ✅ Verified (`is_mobile_friendly: true`) | ❌ Requires headless browser rendering |
| **Categorized Checks** | ✅ Separated `passed_checks` vs `warnings` | ❌ Unparsed HTML strings |
| **Anti-Blocking** | ✅ 100% Procedural UA Randomization | ❌ Single IP / Token Rate Tracking |

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### 💡 How To Use — Simple Workflow

1. **Enter URL** → Enter target website URL or domain (e.g. `https://apify.com`).
2. **Run Audit** → Click **Start** to execute keyless Bing Mobile-Friendliness, Crawling & Indexing validation.
3. **Export Results** → View passed checks, warnings, and mobile readiness status, then export to JSON/CSV.

***

### 🙋 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

**Q: Do I need a Bing Webmaster account or API key?**\
A: No! The backend transparently solves the PoW challenge and executes keyless web inspection server-side without requiring any API key or Bing credentials.

**Q: How does it categorize checks?**\
A: Passed audits are extracted into `passed_checks` while potential issues (like blocked resources in `robots.txt`) are isolated in `warnings`.

***

### 🎯 Use Cases

- 📈 **Mobile SEO Auditing** — Batch verify Mobile-Friendliness, viewport configurations, and tap targets across client websites.
- 🔍 **Noindex & Crawlability Auditing** — Ensure mobile landing pages are not accidentally blocked by `robots.txt`.
- 📊 **Lead Qualification** — Discover non-mobile-friendly client sites for mobile redesign services.

***

### 🔍 Keywords & Tags

`bing mobile friendly`, `mobile friendliness test`, `mobile viewport`, `responsive audit`, `indexing allowed`, `crawl allowed`, `mobile seo`, `robots txt checker`

# Actor input Schema

## `url` (type: `string`):

Enter any webpage URL or domain to audit for Bing Mobile-Friendliness compliance, passed checks, warnings, Crawling Allowed status, and Indexing Allowed permissions.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "url": "https://apify.com"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `keyValueStoreResult` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "url": "https://apify.com"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dev00/bing-mobile-friendliness-checker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "url": "https://apify.com" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dev00/bing-mobile-friendliness-checker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "url": "https://apify.com"
}' |
apify call dev00/bing-mobile-friendliness-checker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dev00/bing-mobile-friendliness-checker"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ec6BtSNQDtVLdPwEn/builds/dVNamjrmHOxcjeBsB/openapi.json