tungstenite

v0.29.0 Growing

Lightweight stream-based WebSocket implementation

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2021 MSRV 1.71

Network programming Web programming::WebSocket #io#websocket#web

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Quick Verdict

✓Actively maintained (updated 10d ago)
!Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
✓Massive adoption (6.2K crates depend on it)
✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads

175.0M

Dependents

6.2K

Releases

Size

73KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

15.2M downloads in the last 30 days (507.6K/day), up 29% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

6.2K crates depend on tungstenite. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 9+ years old, tungstenite hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include tokio-tungstenite, async-tungstenite, solana-pubsub-client, goose, headless_chrome. When high-quality crates choose tungstenite, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 18/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 17/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads · last 90 days

396K/day avg+70%

Top Dependents

Most downloaded crates that depend on tungstenite

ws_stream_tungstenite

Version Adoption

v0.21.0

26%

v0.20.1

26%

v0.24.0

19%

v0.26.2

16%

v0.28.0

14%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["handshake"]

urlhandshake*native-tls__rustls-tlsnative-tls-vendoredrustls-tls-native-rootsrustls-tls-webpki-roots

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Dependencies

direct dependencies