# How to allow user-agent access to private discourse?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-allow-user-agent-access-to-private-discourse/35537>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [Novembro 13, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-allow-user-agent-access-to-private-discourse/35537 "2015-11-13T23:49:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [Novembro 13, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-allow-user-agent-access-to-private-discourse/35537/1 "2015-11-13T23:49:56Z")

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I’m trying to allow Swifttype’s crawler (Swiftbot) to crawl our private discourse instance and they’re telling me I need to allow authentication access on discourse itself. Except I’m finding no documentation for such.

- For context, I have discourse as the forum for my main site, I’m trying to add a site-wide search so users can search for discourse content from anywhere on my site. And this is what swifttype plugin does.

Is there any way to do this within docker on digitalocean?

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