Rust crate owner · data Oct 24, 2026
Pr0methean: Rust crates and real downloads
Every crate Pr0methean can publish on crates.io, among the top 1000. Pr0methean on GitHub · on crates.io
Short answerChris Hennick (crates.io Pr0methean) owns 1 of the 1000 most-downloaded Rust crates. Together they get about 977,272 real downloads a day on quiet days (release-day spikes removed), rank #249 of the 492 owners we track. The biggest is zip at 977,272 a day with 4,151 crates depending on it. 1 shipped a release in the last 90 days; 0 are gaining on the field and 0 losing ground.
Their crates, by real downloads
| Crate | Real downloads a day | Dependents | Trend vs field | Last release | crates.io rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| zip Widely used | 977,272 | 4,151 | +6% | 7d | #412 |
Mostly in: Compression (1), Filesystem (1), Parser implementations (1).
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How we count
Owners: crates.io owners API (users only; teams are not listed), fetched Oct 24, 2026. Real downloads a day = the median day with no release that day or the day before, per crate, summed. Trend = last 30 days against the first 30, read against the median tracked crate. Method: our crates.io study.
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