marshallpierce/cargo-prefetch

Cargo subcommand to download popular crates.

cargo prefetch

A Cargo subcommand to download popular crates.

This command is used to download some popular dependencies into Cargo's cache. This is useful if you plan to go offline, and you want a collection of common crates available to use.

Installation

cargo install cargo-prefetch

Usage

Running cargo prefetch will download the top 100 most common dependencies on crates.io. There are several options for choosing which crates will be downloaded, run with --help to see the options.

Examples

1. cargo prefetch

   Downloads the top 100 most common dependencies.

2. cargo prefetch --list

   Print what would be downloaded, instead of downloading.

3. cargo prefetch serde

   Downloads the most recent version of serde.

4. cargo prefetch serde@=1.0.90

   Download a specific version of serde.

5. cargo prefetch --top-downloads

   Download the top 100 most downloaded crates.

6. cargo prefetch --top-downloads=400

   Download the top 400 most downloaded crates.