Prints package metadata like pip show, apt-cache show, npm view, gem query, etc.
To install:
sh
$ cargo install cargo-show
Updating registry `https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index`
Installing cargo-show v0.5.0
Compiling percent-encoding v1.0.0
Compiling strsim v0.6.0
Compiling quote v0.3.15
...
Compiling docopt v0.8.1
Compiling cargo-show v0.5.0
Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 104.96 secs
Installing /Users/greg/.cargo/bin/cargo-show
$
Usage:
```sh
$ cargo show --help
Usage:
cargo show [options]
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
id: servo name: servo description: Parked non-servo thing documentation: None homepage: None repository: None max_version: 0.0.1 downloads: 1060 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'
{"crate":{"id":"serde","name":"serde","updated_at":"2017-07-12T04:20:29Z","versions":[59405,58325,54218,53794,53565,5330
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