diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d91cb941..8d573783 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ Crawl4AI.egg-info/
 Crawl4AI.egg-info/*
 crawler_data.db
 .vscode/
+.tests/
 test_pad.py
 test_pad*.py
 .data/