🦀 crates.io Rust Package Scraper

🚀 Pull Rust crates with version, edition, downloads, dependencies, repo, categories, keywords, features, crate size, license. 34 fields.

The crates.io Rust Package Scraper pulls rich crate metadata from the official Rust crates registry. Output includes crate ID + name, newest + max-stable + default versions, description, license, total + recent downloads, homepage, repository, documentation URL, structured + plain keywords, structured + plain categories, created / updated dates, yanked flag, exact-match flag (for search), and per-version metadata: edition (2015 / 2018 / 2021 / 2024), crate size, features, has-lib flag, bin names, version-level downloads.

Four modes in one Actor: free-text search, newest crates feed, most-downloaded, and recently-updated. Plus direct lookup by crate name. Lookup mode enriches each record with detailed keyword + category objects (with their own crate counts).

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Rust developers, security teams, SBOM builders, ecosystem analytics teams, ML datasets, package-discovery tools	Rust supply chain analysis, ecosystem health monitoring, crate-discovery tools, dependency-graph extraction, learning Rust

📋 What the crates.io Rust Package Scraper does

Five filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🔍 Search. Free-text crates.io search.
• 📈 Newest / popular. Sort by new, by total downloads, by recent activity.
• 🆔 Lookup. Pull specific crates by name with full enrichment.
• ⚙️ Per-version metadata. Edition, crate size, features, bin names, has-lib flag.
• 🏷️ Categories + keywords. Both as plain arrays and as detailed objects with their own crate counts.

💡 Why it matters: clean, server-side filtering and fresh data on every run.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: categoriesText, cratesIoUrl, description, downloads, keywordsText, license, name, newestVersion, recentDownloads, repository. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Find the crates.io Rust Package Scraper on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick filters and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start.
5. 📥 Download. Grab results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Rust Foundation, the crates.io maintainers, or any individual crate author. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.

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