crate_downloader

Download rust crates for offline development.

Overview

This is a small app that downloads Rust crates for offline development.

Uses reqwest for http client requests
Uses structopt to define and parse command line arguments
Downloads are streamed via concurrent, asynchronous requests (via futures)

Setup

# Clone this repo
git clone https://github.com/jarri2di/crate_downloader.git

# Clone the crates index repo
git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index.git

# Create a directory for downloaded crates
mkdir -p /path/to/local/crates

Usage

cargo run -- --help

Check and lint

Install clippy.

cargo check

cargo clippy

Run

RUST_LOG=info cargo run -- -i /path/to/local/crates.io-index -d /path/to/local/crates

Build

cargo build --release

Run executable

RUST_LOG=info ./target/release/crate_downloader -i /path/to/local/crates.io-index -d /path/to/local/crates