Decision Workspace
crusty-core vs crusty vs spider-lib
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
41
crusty-core
growingv0.82.0
Library for creating blazing fast and configurable web crawlers
39
crusty
growingv0.12.0
Fast && scalable Broad Web Crawler developed on top of crusty-core
52
spider-lib
experimentalv3.0.4
A Rust-based web scraping framework inspired by Scrapy (Python).
Core Metrics
| crusty-core | crusty | spider-lib | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 41 | 39 | 52 |
| Total Downloads | 110.8K | 19.0K | 303 |
| 30d Downloads | 139 | 19 | 133 |
| Dependents | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| Releases | 87 | 15 | 22 |
| Last Updated | 1581d ago | 1755d ago | today |
| Age | 4y 10m | 4y 10m | 2m |
Health Breakdown
crusty-core
Maintenance
7
Quality
12
Community
6
Popularity
6
Documentation
10
crusty
Maintenance
10
Quality
12
Community
3
Popularity
5
Documentation
9
spider-lib
Maintenance
13
Quality
17
Community
6
Popularity
3
Documentation
13
Technical Details
| crusty-core | crusty | spider-lib | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.82.0 | 0.12.0 | 3.0.4 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✓ Yes |
| License | GPL-3.0 | GPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Dependencies | 31 | 23 | 10 |
| Crate Size | 38KB | 33KB | 615KB |
| Features | 1 | 0 | 16 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2018 | 2024 |
| MSRV | — | — | — |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •spider-lib leads with a health score of 52/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •crusty-core has the most downloads (110.8K), suggesting wider adoption.
- •⚠ crusty-core, crusty have not been updated in over a year.
- •crusty-core, crusty are pre-1.0 — API may change.