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get_crawl_issues

List URLs with crawl issues for a site -- pages Bing's crawler had trouble accessing or processing.


Parameters

Name Type Required Description
site_url string Yes The URL of the site

Response

{
  "siteUrl": "https://www.example.com/",
  "issues": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.example.com/old-page",
      "httpCode": 404,
      "issues": ["Code4xx"],
      "inLinks": 3
    }
  ],
  "queriedAt": "2026-02-21T19:00:00Z"
}

Example Prompts

"What crawl issues does my site currently have?"

"Which of my pages are returning 404s to Bing's crawler?"


Notes

  • issues decodes Bing's underlying bitflag value into readable labels (e.g. Code301, Code4xx, BlockedByRobotsTxt, ContainsMalware, DnsErrors, TimeOutErrors). A URL can have more than one issue at once.
  • An empty issues array means no crawl issues were found -- not an error.