Barkrowler (babbar.tech/crawler)

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Barkrowler (babbar.tech/crawler)

What do we know about it?

SumGuy

3:06 am on Apr 13, 2025 (gmt 0)

I could swear that I've seen this off and on for several years, but a log scan only turns up "Barkrowler" this year (Feb, March and April).

Barkrowler/0.9; +https://babbar.tech/crawler

And only from 217.113.194.0/24 (babbar.eu)

This started crawling more of my site today. Up until now it was only grabbing my landing page. It always asks for robots.txt.

What do we know about this one?

not2easy

11:47 am on Apr 13, 2025 (gmt 0)

A quick search turns up (Aug 30, 2017) : [webmasterworld.com...]
and - thanks to lucy24's At Home with the Robots: 2020 edition ( Feb 15, 2020) : [webmasterworld.com...]
and (Feb 12, 2023) : [webmasterworld.com...]
and (Dec 2, 2023) : [webmasterworld.com...]

lucy24

5:14 pm on Apr 13, 2025 (gmt 0)

:: edit after poring over raw logs, including archives from past years, and updating /robots/miscrobots.html (I moved it to my website when it got too unwieldy for a single WebmasterWorld post) ::

I haven’t seen the shorter UA since mid-2020; since then it’s been the longer form

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Barkrowler/0.9; +https://babbar.tech/crawler)

In addition to OP's 217.113.194 (Babbar, in use since September 2022) it sometimes crawls from 154.54.249 (PSInet, in use since September 2020).