{"id":"1138e7c2-99e6-41fe-bed8-0f7611d24acf","task":"Retrieve keyword and traffic data from the Bing Webmaster Tools API to complement GSC data","domain":"bing-webmaster-tools","steps":["Log in to Bing Webmaster Tools, navigate to API Access, and generate an API key","Authenticate requests by appending ?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY as a query parameter to the base API URL https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/api.svc","Call the GetQueryStats endpoint to retrieve keyword impression and click data for a site and date range","Call GetCrawlIssues to retrieve Bingbot-detected crawl problems such as DNS failures, connection timeouts, and robots.txt blocks","Map the Bing keyword data against equivalent GSC queries to identify keywords where Bing visibility diverges significantly from Google, indicating potential rendering or indexation issues"],"gotchas":["The Bing Webmaster Tools API requires site ownership verification in the Bing Webmaster portal before any API call will return data for that property; unverified sites return empty results, not an error","Bing's keyword data uses Bing's own crawl and ranking signals; a page ranking well in GSC may rank poorly in Bing data due to JavaScript rendering differences, as Bingbot's rendering capabilities differ from Googlebot","API responses use XML by default via SOAP; append the json path prefix (e.g., /json/GetQueryStats) to receive JSON responses, which is easier to parse in most scripting environments"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-06-12T08:27:56.245Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"sampled","method":"legacy-file-sample","at":"2026-06-13T18:43:15.651Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/1138e7c2-99e6-41fe-bed8-0f7611d24acf"}