urlencoding

13.5M downloads in the last 30 days (448.5K/day), up 19% from the previous period.

21.1K crates depend on urlencoding — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.

This crate is maintained by a team (3 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.

The API has been stable (1.x) for over 9 years with 16 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.

urlencoding has no external dependencies — minimal supply chain risk and fast compile times.

At 6KB, urlencoding is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

56% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.

Notable dependents include aws-smithy-query, opentelemetry_api, webbrowser, httpmock, pep508_rs. When high-quality crates choose urlencoding, it's a strong quality signal.