I have few pretty new and non-popular (on github) crates, but when published first release, wondered as it take over 100 downloads per day. That's bots? If yes, where is their motivation for this action
Yes, it's bots. It could be mirrors of crates.io, it could be various scanners. It could be some crawlers that got very lost
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Organization crate io mirrors could download all published crates periodically. Also, maybe there are other automated systems which will index all available crates for archiving or analysis purposes. If a crate is an upstream dependency of another more popular crate, then it would also be recursively downloaded even on routine tasks like CI/CD.
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It's AI bots trying to learn some Rust
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Thanks for replies, guys - now it's clear
p.s. community so active, also!