crates.io Package Trend Monitor

Find Rust crates for package discovery, dependency research, SDK tracking, competitor monitoring, and Rust ecosystem intelligence.

This Actor uses the public crates.io API. It is fast, low-cost, and does not need a proxy by default.

What It Returns

• Crate name, description, and crates.io URL
• Repository, homepage, documentation URL
• Latest version, newest version, version count
• All-time downloads and recent downloads
• Created and updated timestamps
• Source query and matched query terms
• Monitoring mode for newly discovered crates

Common Uses

• Discover Rust packages in a category
• Track SDKs and developer ecosystems
• Research open-source competitors
• Monitor dependency/package trends
• Find repositories around Rust tooling
• Build developer market intelligence datasets

Input Tips

Use focused package/category terms:

• openai sdk
• web scraper
• postgres orm
• async runtime
• blockchain wallet
• cli parser

Use maxResultsPerQuery when you provide several queries and want balanced output.

Result Limits

maxResults is a maximum cap, not a guarantee. The Actor only writes crates that pass your relevance and download filters.

The minimum maxResults is 50 so runs are commercially practical and users are charged for meaningful output.

Monitoring

Enable monitorChanges to compare the current run against the previous snapshot in the Actor key-value store.

When onlyChanges is enabled, the dataset contains only newly detected crates. When it is disabled, the dataset contains the current full result set while the change snapshot is still stored for automation.

Proxy Use

No proxy is needed by default. This Actor uses the public crates.io API and does not run a browser.

Output

Each dataset row represents one Rust crate. The primary output event is one dataset row.

Notes

This Actor is not affiliated with crates.io or the Rust Foundation. It reads public crates.io API results and stores structured rows in your Apify dataset.