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niffler

v3.0.0 Growing

Simple and transparent support for compressed files

MIT/Apache-2.0 Edition 2021 MSRV 1.74

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 1+ year
  • โœ“Stable API (3.x for 6+ years)
  • โœ“Trusted by 341 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT/Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
466.7K
Dependents
341
Releases
14
Size
65KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

6.7K downloads in the last 30 days (225/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

341 crates depend on niffler. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Stable for 6+ years

The API has been stable (1.x) for over 6 years with 14 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include fibertools-rs, rustybam, sourmash, simpleaf, fxread. When high-quality crates choose niffler, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 6/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 18/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 10/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
225/day avg+11%
020040060012/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v2.4.0
35%
v2.5.0
22%
v2.6.0
19%
v3.0.0
14%
v2.3.2
9%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["bgz", "bgzip/default", "bz2", "bzip2/default", "gz", "flate2/default", "lzma", "liblzma/default", "zstd", "zstd/default"]

gz*bgz*bz2*lzma*wasmzstd*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
9
direct dependencies
Dependents
341
crates depend on niffler