BarkRowler
Barkrowler web crawler for content discovery
About this crawler
BarkRowler is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Bark[rR]owler in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block BarkRowler traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- BarkRowler
- Pattern
Bark[rR]owler- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- http://www.exensa.com/crawl
- Added
- 2017/10/09
- Instances
- 4 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Barkrowler/0.5.1 (experimenting / debugging - sorry for your logs ) http://www.exensa.com/crawl - [email protected] -- based on BuBiNG
Barkrowler/0.7 (+http://www.exensa.com/crawl)
BarkRowler/0.7 (+http://www.exensa.com/crawling)
Barkrowler/0.9 (+http://www.exensa.com/crawl)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow BarkRowler:
User-agent: BarkRowler
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Bark[rR]owler [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Bark[rR]owler") {
return 403;
}
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