SEO & backlink crawlers
Barkrowler
Babbar's crawler that builds a graph of the public web (links and page metadata, not content) to power SEO and online-marketing metrics.
Dossier
- Operator
- Babbar
- Documentation
- babbar.tech
- robots.txt token
barkrowler- Feeds
- SEO backlink index
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes, per its documentationDocs: follows robots.txt via crawler-commons incl. Disallow and Crawl-Delay; default 5 s per host.
- How to verify
- Published IP ranges and reverse DNSbabbar.tech
- Names in our logs
barkrowler- Researched
- 23 Oct 2026
Observed on New Runtime
Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…
- Requests
- 61
- Days active
- 2 / 93
- First seen
- 16 Oct 2026
- Last seen
- 21 Oct 2026
Returningother_bot
Identity check claimed vs verified
- No per-family identity check is published for this reader; its name is a claim.
What it reads crawler journeys · current window
- The crawler-journeys aggregate tracks reading depth for the busiest named crawlers only; this family is not among them.
Enters at · 7 days
Leaves from · 7 days
Sources
- babbar.techwww.babbar.tech/crawler