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Crates Io Search Example

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Crates Io Search 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?q=serde&per_page=2&sort=downloads",
    "headers": {
      "User-Agent": "api-evangelist (kin@apievangelist.com)",
      "Accept": "application/json"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "crates": [
      {
        "id": "serde",
        "name": "serde",
        "description": "A generic serialization/deserialization framework",
        "max_version": "1.0.219",
        "max_stable_version": "1.0.219",
        "newest_version": "1.0.219",
        "downloads": 480000000,
        "recent_downloads": 38000000,
        "repository": "https://github.com/serde-rs/serde",
        "documentation": "https://docs.rs/serde",
        "homepage": "https://serde.rs",
        "keywords": ["serde", "serialization", "no_std"],
        "categories": ["encoding", "no-std"],
        "created_at": "2014-12-05T20:20:39.487502Z",
        "updated_at": "2026-04-12T11:02:18.123456Z"
      },
      {
        "id": "serde_json",
        "name": "serde_json",
        "description": "A JSON serialization file format",
        "max_version": "1.0.140",
        "newest_version": "1.0.140",
        "downloads": 410000000,
        "recent_downloads": 33000000
      }
    ],
    "meta": {
      "total": 11900,
      "next_page": "?q=serde&per_page=2&sort=downloads&page=2",
      "prev_page": null
    }
  }
}