Verified Bots Directory

Directory / Search engines

IbouBot

Fully verifiable

The crawler behind Ibou, a French conversational search engine. It discovers publicly accessible pages and indexes them so Ibou can cite and link back to the sites it answers from. The operator documents a 5-second politeness delay per host, publishes its address ranges as JSON, and documents forward-confirmed reverse DNS as the reliable way to tell a genuine request from a spoofed user agent.

Operated by Babbar (Ibou) · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexIbouBot/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; IbouBot/1.0; [email protected]; +https://ibou.io/iboubot.html)

How to verify

Fetch the official IP range feed

curl -s https://ibou.io/iboubot-ip-ranges.json

Reverse-DNS check a client IP

dig -x <client-ip> +short   # expect a hostname matching *.ibou.io

Reverse-DNS suffixes: *.ibou.io

IP ranges (1)

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

217.113.196.0/24

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Fully verifiable

  • Respects robots.txt

    Honors robots.txt (token: IbouBot)

  • 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.