diff --git a/api/internal/crawl/config/crawler/base/.gitignore b/api/internal/crawl/config/crawler/base/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cea109352
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+++ b/api/internal/crawl/config/crawler/base/.gitignore
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+github_api_secret.txt