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Hackage-Server: A Haskell Package Repository
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There should be a way for bots to silently download packages #184

Open kvanbere opened 10 years ago

kvanbere commented 10 years ago

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 commented 10 years ago

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

Patches accepted.

gbaz commented 6 years ago

An upside of https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/pull/698 is that it would give a way to resolve this.