A Cargo subcommand for recursive download of crates and thier dependencies from crates.io.
cargo-collect can be used to download a gzipped archive of given crate, in the exact form that it was uploaded to crates.io.
This can be useful for a variety of things, such as: - download the crates to upload to third party registry with cargo-upload. - security auditing of crates (esp. when a crate repository is missing). - reproducing a bug that only occurs in uploaded versions of your crate.
cargo-collect can be installed with cargo install
bash
$ cargo install cargo-collect
This shall put the cargo-collect executable in your Cargo binary directory (e.g. ~/.cargo/bin), which hopefully is in your $PATH.
To download the newest version of foo crate and its dependencies, do this:
bash
$ cargo collect foo --output /path/to/optput/folder
For more detailed usage instructions, run cargo collect --help.
cargo-collect is licensed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3