cargo-show

Prints package metadata like pip show, apt-cache show, npm view, gem query, etc.

To install:

``sh $ cargo install cargo-show Updating registryhttps://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index` Downloading cargo-show v0.4.0 Installing cargo-show v0.4.0 Compiling utf8-ranges v1.0.0 Compiling strsim v0.6.0 Compiling libc v0.2.22 ...

Compiling g-k-crates-io-client v0.8.1 Compiling cargo-show v0.4.0 Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 94.37 secs Installing /Users/greg/.cargo/bin/cargo-show $ ```

Usage:

```sh $ cargo show --help Usage: cargo show [options] ... cargo show (-h|--help) cargo show --version

Options: --json Print the JSON response. -h --help Show this help page. --version Show version.

Display a metadata for a create at crates.io. ```

To print package metadata:

```sh $ cargo show webrender servo

Error fetching data for webrender: cannot find crate

id: servo name: servo description: Parked non-servo thing documentation: None homepage: None repository: None max_version: 0.0.1 downloads: 966 license: MPL-2.0 created: 2014-12-04T23:41:05Z updated: 2015-12-11T23:55:55Z ```

To print JSON:

json $ cargo show --json serde | cut -b '1-120' {"categories":[{"category":"Encoding","crates_cnt":42,"created_at":"2017-01-17T19:13:05Z","description":"Encoding and/or

To rename the command if you're used to other package managers:

sh $ cd /usr/local/bin/ # or someplace in path $ ln $(which cargo-show) cargo-flizblorp # needs to be a hardlink $ cargo --list | grep fliz flizblorp

Contributors

@leoschwarz