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There should be a way for bots to silently download packages #184

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kvanbere opened this issue Jan 16, 2014 · 2 comments
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There should be a way for bots to silently download packages #184

kvanbere opened this issue Jan 16, 2014 · 2 comments

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@kvanbere
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At the moment when bots (hayoo, hoogle, scripts, etc) download packages it increases the download count and causes the download count to be useless for lower numbers (<100) in determining the actual number of users.

There should be a way for bots to download packages without increasing the count.

@dcoutts
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dcoutts commented Feb 18, 2014

Could try filtering on a user agent. That'd also help with search engines.

Patches accepted.

@gbaz
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gbaz commented Mar 25, 2018

An upside of #698 is that it would give a way to resolve this.

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