Crates.io Scraper – Rust Packages, Downloads & Repos

Get clean crates.io data for any Rust package: total & recent downloads, latest version, description, keywords, categories, homepage, repository and docs. Search by query or fetch specific crates by name. As JSON, CSV or Excel. Free, no key, no proxy.

💵 Pricing

Pay per result — about $0.0004 per item ($0.40 / 1,000). No subscription, no proxy needed. You only pay for the data you scrape, and new Apify accounts include free monthly credits so you can test it for $0.

🔎 What can it extract?

• Crate name, description, latest (max) version
• Total downloads & recent downloads
• Keywords and categories
• Homepage, repository and documentation links
• Created / updated timestamps
• Direct crate URL (https://crates.io/crates/{name})

🚀 How do I use it?

1. Click Try for free.
2. Set the input (see example below).
3. Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV or Excel — or pull them via the API / schedule them.

⚙️ Input example

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "web scraping",
  "sort": "downloads",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Fetch specific crates with full keywords + categories:

{
  "mode": "crates",
  "crateNames": ["tokio", "serde"]
}

📦 Output example

{
  "name": "tokio",
  "description": "An event-driven, non-blocking I/O platform for writing asynchronous I/O backed applications.",
  "downloads": 350000000,
  "recent_downloads": 42000000,
  "max_version": "1.38.0",
  "homepage": "https://tokio.rs",
  "repository": "https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio",
  "documentation": "https://docs.rs/tokio",
  "keywords": ["io", "async", "non-blocking", "futures"],
  "categories": ["asynchronous", "network-programming"],
  "created_at": "2016-08-15T09:00:00.000000+00:00",
  "updated_at": "2024-06-01T09:00:00.000000+00:00",
  "url": "https://crates.io/crates/tokio",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-01T12:00:00+00:00"
}

🎯 Use cases

• Rust dependency & supply-chain analysis
• Tracking package popularity and download trends
• Building developer-tooling and package datasets
• Discovering crates by keyword or category
• Competitive research on the Rust ecosystem

💰 How much will it cost?

You pay only the per-result price (no proxy cost): 100 → ~$0.04 · 1,000 → ~$0.40 · 10,000 → ~$4

🆚 Why this one

Feature	This actor	Others
Search + fetch by name	✅	one only
Keywords + categories	✅	partial
Total + recent downloads	✅	sometimes
No key / no proxy	✅	sometimes

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• NPM Package Scraper — Node packages
• GitHub Scraper — repos & profiles
• Docker Hub Scraper — container images
• Hacker News Scraper — tech news

❓ FAQ

Key/proxy? No. crates.io is a free public API. Bulk? Use search with maxItems up to 1,000, or list up to 50 names in crates mode.

🛟 Support

Found a bug or need an extra field? Open an issue on the actor — fixes and new fields ship fast.

Legal & privacy

Data via the public crates.io JSON API, accessed with a descriptive User-Agent per their crawler policy. No personal data is collected.

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