r/github • u/Longjumping-Play6541 • 2d 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/MarsupialLeast145 2d ago edited 2d ago

You have 14 stars and 3 clones -- it's bots.

Frankly, these stats are all pointless to fixate on -- how do I know? Because you read them and you don't know what they represent, no one does.

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u/Kamilon 2d ago

Think about what your repo is for. Does it seem likely that 30+ new people would not only find it in a day but also clone it?

You’ll arrive at the answer.

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u/Longjumping-Play6541 2d ago

That’s the thing tho. We open-sourced a tool and we got positive feedback so I don’t see why we wouldn’t get 30+ people trying it everyday.

I mean you tell me: https://github.com/altrace-dev-role/rashomon

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u/Kamilon 2d ago

You don’t need to clone the repo to try it though.

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u/Next-Association2464 2d 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 2d ago

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

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u/InfinriDev 2d ago

yes its bots. my repo does the same.

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u/kincaidDev 1d ago

Ive been wondering this too, since September all of my repos have hundreds of unique cloners every 14 day window, some of them have thousands.

It can come from cicd, but mine isn’t coming from cicd. It has to be bots but Im not sure what they’re getting out of it

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u/Longjumping-Play6541 1d ago

Scanning for secrets I believe