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curl-sys

v0.4.88+curl-8.20.0 Growing

Native bindings to the libcurl library

MIT Edition 2018

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 24d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 475 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
43.7M
Dependents
475
Releases
147
Size
1.8MB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

1.5M downloads in the last 30 days (48.4K/day), up 1% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

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

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 213 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 18/25

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
49K/day avg-10%
020K40K60K2/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.4.80+curl-8.12.1
34%
v0.4.83+curl-8.15.0
26%
v0.4.84+curl-8.17.0
16%
v0.4.82+curl-8.14.1
13%
v0.4.85+curl-8.18.0
12%

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
475
crates depend on curl-sys