# How to protect myself from bots crawling my Discourse instance?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-protect-myself-from-bots-crawling-my-discourse-instance/106962>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 19, 2019, 4:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-protect-myself-from-bots-crawling-my-discourse-instance/106962 "2019-01-19T04:55:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 8:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-protect-myself-from-bots-crawling-my-discourse-instance/106962/2 "2019-01-19T08:16:13Z")

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If you set your `login_required` setting to true, bots will not be able to crawl your forum.

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