Verified Bots Directory

Directory / SEO tools

Barkrowler

Fully verifiable

Barkrowler is the web crawler operated by Babbar (formerly Exensa). It builds and updates Babbar's graph of the web, which powers the company's SEO and link-analysis tools, and applies a politeness delay between requests.

Operated by Babbar · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexBark[rR]owler
  • observedBarkrowler/0.7 (+http://www.exensa.com/crawl)
  • observedBarkRowler/0.7 (+http://www.exensa.com/crawling)

How to verify

Fetch the official IP range feed

curl -s https://www.babbar.tech/barkrowler-ip-ranges.json

IP ranges (2)

Refreshed daily from the operator's feed. Also available as /data/ips/barkrowler.ips and /data/bots/barkrowler.json.

154.54.249.0/24
217.113.194.0/24

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Fully verifiable

  • Respects robots.txt

    Honors robots.txt (token: barkrowler)

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.