drain.lat API

GET /crate/:name

Fetch Rust crate information from crates.io.

GET /api/v1/crates/crate/:name

string

required

The crate name to look up.

curl "https://drain.lat/api/v1/crates/crate/serde" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const res = await fetch("https://drain.lat/api/v1/crates/crate/serde", {
  headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" }
});
const data = await res.json();

import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://drain.lat/api/v1/crates/crate/serde",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
)
print(res.json())

string

Crate name.

string

Latest version.

string

Crate description.

number

Total downloads.

number

Recent downloads (last 90 days).

string

Repository URL.

string

Homepage URL.

string

Documentation URL.

array

Crate keywords.

array

Crate categories.

string

Crate creation date (ISO 8601).

string

Last update date.

number

Total number of versions.

string

Link to the crates.io page.

Response

{
  "name": "serde",
  "version": "1.0.197",
  "description": "A generic serialization/deserialization framework",
  "downloads": 500000000,
  "recentDownloads": 25000000,
  "repository": "https://github.com/serde-rs/serde",
  "homepage": "https://serde.rs",
  "documentation": "https://docs.rs/serde",
  "keywords": ["serde", "serialization"],
  "categories": ["encoding"],
  "createdAt": "2014-11-11T00:00:00Z",
  "updatedAt": "2024-02-28T00:00:00Z",
  "versions": 198,
  "cratesUrl": "https://crates.io/crates/serde",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-31T00:00:00Z"
}

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