IbouBot is a bot in the search engine crawlers category, operated by Babbar.
IbouBot is the crawler of the Ibou Search Engine
Search engine crawlers index your pages so they can appear in search results. Keep the genuine ones allowed and verify them, because fake search crawlers are one of the most common disguises for scrapers.
IbouBot identifies itself with this user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; IbouBot/1.0; [email protected]; +https://ibou.io/iboubot.html)Anyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.
We have not confirmed whether IbouBot follows robots.txt. Add a rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: IbouBot Disallow: /
User-agent: IbouBot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: IbouBot Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: IbouBot Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: IbouBot group, IbouBot ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.IbouBot from IbouBot's user agent; check Babbar's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
IbouBot brings search traffic, so keep the real one allowed. Fake IbouBot requests are a common cover for scrapers, so verify it by network rather than by name.
Transfon Security for publishersSearch crawlers fetch landing pages to check them. Keep IbouBot allowed, but out of campaign and conversion data.
Transfon Security for advertisersIbouBot indexes products for search results. Allow it, and block impersonators that use its name to scrape prices.
Transfon Security for e-commerceAllow IbouBot on marketing and docs pages, and keep it off signed-in app pages it cannot use.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows IbouBot by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.
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IbouBot is a bot in the search engine crawlers category, operated by Babbar. IbouBot is the crawler of the Ibou Search Engine
We have not confirmed whether IbouBot follows robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped, and block it by user agent if it did not.
Add "User-agent: IbouBot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "IbouBot" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so IbouBot may not follow it, and anyone can send IbouBot's user agent, so a fake IbouBot ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Search engine crawlers index your pages so they can appear in search results. Keep the genuine ones allowed and verify them, because fake search crawlers are one of the most common disguises for scrapers.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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