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curl-sys

v0.4.86+curl-8.19.0 Growing

Native bindings to the libcurl library

MIT Edition 2018

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 10d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 460 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
40.9M
Dependents
460
Releases
145
Size
1.8MB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

1.5M downloads in the last 30 days (51.0K/day), up 24% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

460 crates depend on curl-sys. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 215 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 11+ years old, curl-sys hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include curl, rdkafka-sys, isahc, cargo, zellij-utils. When high-quality crates choose curl-sys, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 19/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 14/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 14/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
42K/day avg+53%
020K40K60K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.4.72+curl-8.6.0
40%
v0.4.77+curl-8.10.1
19%
v0.4.78+curl-8.11.0
14%
v0.4.80+curl-8.12.1
14%
v0.4.59+curl-7.86.0
13%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["ssl"]

ssl*ntlmhttp2rustlsspnegomesalinkstatic-sslpoll_7_68_0static-curlprotocol-ftpupkeep_7_62_0zlib-ng-compatwindows-static-sslforce-system-lib-on-osx

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
9
direct dependencies
Dependents
460
crates depend on curl-sys