cargo-info
Display information about a Rust crate
TLDR
Show package information
$ cargo info [serde]
Show specific version info$ cargo info [serde@1.0]
Show info for local package$ cargo info
Show info with features$ cargo info [tokio]
SYNOPSIS
cargo info [options] [spec]
DESCRIPTION
cargo info displays information about a package from crates.io or the local workspace. Shows metadata from Cargo.toml including name, version, description, license, dependencies, and features.
For local workspace packages, displays information from the local manifest. Creates Cargo.lock if it doesn't exist.
PARAMETERS
--registry name
Use specified registry--index url
Use specified registry index--manifest-path path
Path to Cargo.toml-v, --verbose
Verbose output-q, --quiet
Suppress output
OUTPUT
Displays:
- Package name and version
- Description
- License
- Documentation and repository links
- Dependencies
- Features
- Recent versions
CAVEATS
Without version specification, selects version based on Minimum Supported Rust Version (MSRV). For more detailed crate queries, consider cargo-crate or cargo-information.
SEE ALSO
cargo(1), cargo-search(1)