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  "name": "Barkrowler",
  "operator": {
    "name": "Babbar",
    "url": "https://www.babbar.tech"
  },
  "description": "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.",
  "docs": [
    "https://www.babbar.tech/crawler"
  ],
  "category": "seo",
  "user_agents": {
    "patterns": [
      "Bark[rR]owler"
    ],
    "instances": [
      "Barkrowler/0.7 (+http://www.exensa.com/crawl)",
      "BarkRowler/0.7 (+http://www.exensa.com/crawling)"
    ]
  },
  "behavior": {
    "respects_robots_txt": true,
    "robots_token": "barkrowler"
  },
  "verification": [
    {
      "type": "cidr_feed",
      "url": "https://www.babbar.tech/barkrowler-ip-ranges.json",
      "format": "prefixes"
    }
  ],
  "tier": 1,
  "tier_label": "Fully verifiable",
  "first_seen": "2026-07-16T01:14:20.999Z",
  "resolved_cidrs": [
    "154.54.249.0/24",
    "217.113.194.0/24"
  ]
}