THIRD-PARTY CRATES
The third-party Rust crates directory
Metadata for 305,250 published crates from the crates.io registry — name, description, total downloads, current version, declared license, categories and keywords, plus outbound links to each crate’s homepage, repository, docs.rs page and its canonical crates.io page. This directory renders structured metadata fields only; it does not re-host any crate’s README or source code (see methodology).
Data as of 2026-07-25 (crates.io database dump, timestamp 2026-07-25T02:00:36Z). Source: crates.io · db-dump.tar.gz · methodology & corrections.
305,250 crates indexed20,086 individual profile pages103 categories375,351,246,463 cumulative downloads
Top categories
Command line utilities27,786 crates
Development tools19,246 crates
API bindings12,402 crates
Network programming12,150 crates
No standard library11,888 crates
Science10,187 crates
Data structures10,114 crates
Asynchronous9,790 crates
Web programming8,910 crates
Algorithms7,448 crates
Cryptography6,603 crates
Embedded development6,261 crates
Top 20 most-downloaded crates
#1hashbrown2,024,350,310 downloads
#2syn1,997,204,642 downloads
#3getrandom1,649,179,801 downloads
#4bitflags1,569,436,678 downloads
#5rand_core1,454,699,549 downloads
#6rand1,429,983,774 downloads
#7libc1,396,681,994 downloads
#8proc-macro21,380,262,922 downloads
#9quote1,379,419,074 downloads
#10base641,362,788,924 downloads
#11indexmap1,313,414,826 downloads
#12windows-sys1,307,072,822 downloads
#13itertools1,295,966,075 downloads
#14regex-syntax1,263,584,138 downloads
#15cfg-if1,233,710,804 downloads
#16thiserror-impl1,230,157,429 downloads
#17thiserror1,229,923,374 downloads
#18serde1,194,795,261 downloads
#19rand_chacha1,190,546,522 downloads
#20memchr1,182,805,484 downloads