About this bot
IbouBot is a crawler associated with Babbar and used for indexing.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is IbouBot. Representative HTTP request identity: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; IbouBot/1.0; +bot@ibou.io; +https://ibou.io/iboubot.html).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
robots.txt directives are documented as a supported access-control mechanism for this identity.
Common use: IbouBot is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks..
Risk classification: Safe. Recommended handling is to evaluate the request context before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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IbouBotMozilla/5.0 (compatible; IbouBot/1.0; +bot@ibou.io; +https://ibou.io/iboubot.html)
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Babbar
- Purpose
- Indexing
- Common Use
- IbouBot is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `IbouBot` as the claimed identity signal and corroborate it with independent network, DNS, cryptographic, or request-context signals when stronger authentication is required.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `IbouBot` User-Agent token. A User-Agent match identifies a claim, not authenticated origin.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: IbouBot Disallow: /