ripgrep

v15.1.0 Growing

ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern while respecting gitignore rules. ripgrep has first class support on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Unlicense OR MIT Edition 2024 MSRV 1.85

Command line utilities Text processing #search#regex#pattern#grep#egrep

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Quick Verdict

✓Stable API (15.x for 9+ years)
✓Permissive license (Unlicense OR MIT)

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Downloads

1.4M

Dependents

Releases

Size

222KB

Deep Insights

📊

Steady growth

25.9K downloads in the last 30 days (862/day), up 13% from the previous period.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 84 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Stable for 9+ years

The API has been stable (1.x) for over 9 years with 58 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 9/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 18/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 7/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads · last 90 days

793/day avg+11%

Top Dependents

Most downloaded crates that depend on ripgrep

ai-ripgrep

1.4K dl 32

Version Adoption

v14.1.1

29%

v13.0.0

29%

v14.1.0

18%

v14.0.3

14%

v15.1.0

10%

Release Timeline

10 releasessince 2020

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Feature Flags

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README

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Maintainers

Andrew Gallant

84 crates

Dependencies

direct dependencies