BarkRowler

seo Bark[rR]owler

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%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: Bark[rR]owler
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

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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