{
  "id": "iboubot",
  "name": "IbouBot",
  "operator": {
    "name": "Babbar (Ibou)",
    "url": "https://ibou.io"
  },
  "description": "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.",
  "docs": [
    "https://ibou.io/iboubot.html"
  ],
  "category": "search-engine",
  "user_agents": {
    "patterns": [
      "IbouBot/\\d"
    ],
    "instances": [
      "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; IbouBot/1.0; +bot@ibou.io; +https://ibou.io/iboubot.html)"
    ]
  },
  "behavior": {
    "respects_robots_txt": true,
    "robots_token": "IbouBot"
  },
  "verification": [
    {
      "type": "cidr_feed",
      "url": "https://ibou.io/iboubot-ip-ranges.json",
      "format": "prefixes"
    },
    {
      "type": "rdns",
      "masks": [
        "*.ibou.io"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tier": 1,
  "tier_label": "Fully verifiable",
  "first_seen": "2026-08-25T13:21:31.852Z",
  "resolved_cidrs": [
    "217.113.196.0/24"
  ]
}