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Crates io cli

Interact with crates.io from the command-line

From Byron·Updated September 6, 2025·View on GitHub·

A command-line interface to interact with [crates.io](https://crates.io/) The project is written primarily in Rust, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2016. Key topics include: asciicast, cli, crates.

Latest release: v4.0.3
October 17, 2024View Changelog →

Rust
crates.io version

A command-line interface to interact with crates.io

Features

  • search crates.io interactively and open in browser
    asciicast

    asciicast

  • list recently changes crates
    asciicast

  • output modes for humans and machines
    asciicast

Installation

If you have Rust on your system:

bash
cargo install crates-io-cli

If you are on NetBSD, a native package is available.
To install it, simply run:

bash
pkgin install crates-io-cli

... and if you have to install from scratch, the following will install Rust and
the CLI at once:

bash
{ command -v rustup 2>&1 >/dev/null || curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh } && cargo install crates-io-cli

To install Rust on windows, you can follow the instrutions on rustup.rs.

Usage

You can learn what it can do by using the --help flag:

bash
crates --help

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