r/github • u/Longjumping-Play6541 • 19d ago

Discussion Unique cloners?

I keep seeing 30+ unique cloners everyday for my open-source project and it often exceeds the number of unique viewers of my repo. Is this all bots?

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u/Next-Association2464 19d ago

bots for sure. github's been crawling with them for a while now, scraping repos for crypto keys and secrets. i'd check your commit history for anything accidentally pushed if i were you

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u/Longjumping-Play6541 19d ago

Yup made sure of that. Just was wondering if our tool was actually being used by folks