diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8d573783..4dba4f26 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ Crawl4AI.egg-info/*
 crawler_data.db
 .vscode/
 .tests/
+.test_pads/
 test_pad.py
 test_pad*.py
 .data/