Download counter on crates.io

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 :slight_smile:

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 :wink:

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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 :slight_smile:

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Thanks for replies, guys - now it's clear

p.s. community so active, also!