# 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:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 11:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-protect-myself-from-bots-crawling-my-discourse-instance/106962/4 "2019-01-19T11:21:38Z")

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Search for “crawler” in site settings.

Use the `blocked crawler user agents` and `allowed crawler user agents` site settings.

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