cargo-search

Search for crate

$ cargo search [serde]

$ cargo search [async] --limit [50]

$ cargo search [package] --registry [my-registry]

cargo search [options] [query...]

cargo search performs a textual search for crates on crates.io or another registry. Results are displayed in a TOML-compatible format showing the package name, latest version, and description, making them easy to copy directly into a Cargo.toml dependencies section.
By default, up to 10 results are returned, sorted by relevance. The `--limit` flag can increase this up to 100. For more advanced browsing, the crates.io website or tools like `cargo-seek` provide richer filtering and categorization.

--limit n

Number of results (default: 10, max: 100)

Registry to search

Registry index URL

Verbose output

Suppress output

Results display package name, version, and description:

$ serde = "1.0.130"     # A generic serialization/deserialization framework
serde_json = "1.0.68" # JSON serialization format

Searches crates.io by default. For interactive TUI search, consider cargo-seek. Results sorted by relevance.

cargo(1), cargo-add(1), cargo-info(1)