diff --git a/api/internal/crawl/backend/search_backend.go b/api/internal/crawl/backend/search_backend.go
index f3b117554..e6062fbf6 100644
--- a/api/internal/crawl/backend/search_backend.go
+++ b/api/internal/crawl/backend/search_backend.go
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/gorilla/mux"
 	"github.com/rs/cors"
 
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/hack/crawl/index"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/crawl/index"
 )
 
 type kustomizeSearch struct {
diff --git a/api/internal/crawl/cmd/backend/main.go b/api/internal/crawl/cmd/backend/main.go
index e234a434b..b3ab23b7f 100644
--- a/api/internal/crawl/cmd/backend/main.go
+++ b/api/internal/crawl/cmd/backend/main.go
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"log"
 	"os"
-	server "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/hack/crawl/backend"
+	server "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/crawl/backend"
 	"strconv"
 )
 
diff --git a/api/internal/crawl/crawler/crawler.go b/api/internal/crawl/crawler/crawler.go
index 52cb4aeac..b2da17944 100644
--- a/api/internal/crawl/crawler/crawler.go
+++ b/api/internal/crawl/crawler/crawler.go
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import (
 
 	_ "github.com/gomodule/redigo/redis"
 
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/hack/crawl/doc"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/crawl/doc"
 )
 
 var (
diff --git a/api/internal/crawl/crawler/crawler_test.go b/api/internal/crawl/crawler/crawler_test.go
index e1f06eb7a..d2920e08a 100644
--- a/api/internal/crawl/crawler/crawler_test.go
+++ b/api/internal/crawl/crawler/crawler_test.go
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/konfig"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/hack/crawl/doc"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/crawl/doc"
 )
 
 const (
diff --git a/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/crawler.go b/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/crawler.go
index 3973cdf84..2e4060994 100644
--- a/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/crawler.go
+++ b/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/crawler.go
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ import (
 
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/git"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/konfig"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/hack/crawl/crawler"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/hack/crawl/doc"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/hack/crawl/httpclient"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/crawl/crawler"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/crawl/doc"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/crawl/httpclient"
 )
 
 var logger = log.New(os.Stdout, "Github Crawler: ",
diff --git a/api/internal/crawl/index/kustomize.go b/api/internal/crawl/index/kustomize.go
index 07bb7adf4..68bfe4cd5 100644
--- a/api/internal/crawl/index/kustomize.go
+++ b/api/internal/crawl/index/kustomize.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/hack/crawl/doc"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/crawl/doc"
 )
 
 const (