Download numbers on crates.io too high?

• crates.io

  660 2,796 10.0 Rust

  The Rust package registry

  

Hey I published my first crate on crates.io and it tells me that 45 people downloaded it. That's hard to believe. Is it a known fact that the download numbers are higher because of any reasons (for example bots even though I don't see how that makes sense) or should I just be happy that people are using it? Im not sure how 45 people should even know about this crate. Thanks!

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If the crates.io team wanted to go further they could employ some invasive methods to detect bots (usually it involves a JS library that does fingerprinting on the browser - something like BotD), but I'm not advocating for it. I don't think crates.io should collect more data, they should just perform better statistics on the data they already have.

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