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Crates Io Get Crate Example

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Crates Io Get Crate Example is an example object payload from crates.io, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

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{
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/tokio",
    "headers": {
      "User-Agent": "api-evangelist (kin@apievangelist.com)",
      "Accept": "application/json"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "crate": {
      "id": "tokio",
      "name": "tokio",
      "description": "An event-driven, non-blocking I/O platform for writing asynchronous I/O backed applications.",
      "max_version": "1.45.0",
      "max_stable_version": "1.45.0",
      "newest_version": "1.45.0",
      "downloads": 350000000,
      "recent_downloads": 28000000,
      "repository": "https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio",
      "documentation": "https://docs.rs/tokio",
      "homepage": "https://tokio.rs",
      "keywords": ["io", "async", "non-blocking", "futures"],
      "categories": ["asynchronous", "network-programming"],
      "created_at": "2017-04-21T15:32:21.183Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-05-15T10:42:11.998Z"
    },
    "versions": [
      {
        "id": 1234567,
        "crate": "tokio",
        "num": "1.45.0",
        "dl_path": "/api/v1/crates/tokio/1.45.0/download",
        "downloads": 1200000,
        "features": {
          "full": ["fs", "io-util", "macros", "net", "process", "rt", "rt-multi-thread", "signal", "sync", "time"]
        },
        "yanked": false,
        "license": "MIT",
        "rust_version": "1.70",
        "crate_size": 802345,
        "created_at": "2026-05-15T10:42:11.998Z"
      }
    ],
    "keywords": [
      { "id": "async", "keyword": "async", "crates_cnt": 4321 }
    ],
    "categories": [
      { "id": "asynchronous", "category": "Asynchronous", "slug": "asynchronous", "crates_cnt": 5210 }
    ]
  }
}

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