Crates / brotli-decompressor
Rust crate · real downloads · data Oct 24, 2026
brotli-decompressor downloads, and should you depend on it?
A brotli decompressor that with an interface avoiding the rust stdlib. This makes it suitable for embedded devices and kernels. It is designed with a pluggable allocator so that the standard lib's allocator may be employed. The default build also includes a stdlib allocator and stream interface. Disable this with --features=no-stdlib. Alternatively, --features=unsafe turns off array bounds checks and memory initialization but provides a safe interface for the caller. Without adding the --features=unsafe argument, all included code is safe. For compression in addition to this library, download https://github.com/dropbox/rust-brotli crates.io · docs · repository
Owned on crates.io by danielrh · alternatives · is it still maintained?
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Few direct dependents and gaining.
brotli-decompressor: only 74 crates name it directly; most of its downloads come in through rustls and brotli; small bumps on release days (1.23x the baseline).
How this verdict is decided (4 rules)
- Usage: crates.io reverse dependencies (crates that list it as a dependency): 10,000+ = foundational, 1,000+ = widely used, 100+ = established, under 100 = few direct dependents.
- Direction: the median quiet day in the last 30 days of the window against the first 30, read against the median tracked crate (the whole field moved +39% from late summer to October, so a raw trend says nothing). 10%+ ahead of the field = gaining; 10%+ behind = losing ground; otherwise steady. Steady with no release in 2+ years = quiet for years.
- Release spikes: the median release-window day against the quiet-day baseline: under 1.15x = no spike, 1.15x to 1.3x = small bumps, 1.3x or more = jumps on release days.
- Release recency: days since the newest version that was not yanked, from crates.io publish times.
release window (release day + next day)quiet dayquiet-day median · download the 89 days as CSV
The numbers in one paragraphbrotli-decompressor got 80,503,095 crates.io downloads from Jul 27, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026. 12% of them landed within 2 days of one of its 4 releases. On the other 81 quiet days it got a median of 832,021 a day, about 5,824,147 a week. Capping release days at that baseline leaves 77,755,133 release-adjusted downloads for the window.
What this means if you're choosing a dependency
- You rarely add this one yourself. Only 74 crates name it directly; its downloads arrive through rustls, brotli, ureq.
- Actively released. 6.1.1 shipped 3 days ago (Oct 21, 2026).
- Fit check: license BSD-3-Clause/MIT (from the latest version's manifest).
- Compare it by the baseline, not the raw count. 12% of its 80,503,095 downloads in the window landed within 2 days of a release; the steady number is 832,021 a day.
Alternatives that do a similar job
Crates that share its crates.io category or keywords, most similar first. Each line is the crate's own description, then how it compares on the same data.
Its place in the dependency graph
Built on brotli-decompressor
3 of the 1000 crates we track depend on it directly (biggest first).
brotli-decompressor builds on
Tracked crates its latest version (6.1.1) depends on (optional ones marked).
What the chart says
- Weekend quiet days ran at 60% of weekday quiet days (545,834 vs 908,535). A dip that deep is the signature of work-week CI pipelines and developers building on weekdays.
- Biggest day: 1,807,967 on Oct 22, 2026, inside a release window.
Every number
| All-time downloads | 304,758,597 (rank #423 on crates.io by all-time downloads) |
| Downloads in the window | 80,503,095 (Jul 27, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026, 89 days) |
| Within 2 days of a release | 9,336,758 (11.6%) |
| Quiet-day median (baseline) | 832,021 a day; weekdays 908,535, weekends 545,834 |
| Release-adjusted downloads | 77,755,133 (release-window days capped at the baseline) |
| Baseline rank | #436 of the 1000 crates we track |
| Quiet-day trend | +61% raw, +16% against the median tracked crate (+39%) |
| Releases in the window | 4 |
| Versions published, ever | 43 |
| Latest version | 6.1.1, published Oct 21, 2026 (license BSD-3-Clause/MIT) |
| First published | Apr 25, 2017 |
| Reverse dependencies | 74 |
Releases in the window
Each one opens a 2-day release window on the chart.
| Version | Published | Downloads that version got (lifetime) |
|---|---|---|
| 6.1.1 | Oct 21, 2026 | 3,208 |
| 6.1.0 | Oct 11, 2026 | 15,228 |
| 6.0.1 | Sep 24, 2026 | 4,841,746 |
| 6.0.0 | Sep 2, 2026 | 1,026,406 |
How we compute this
crates.io counts every download, including CI runners, mirrors and bots that fetch each new version, so raw counts run high (why, in The Manual). We split the last 89 days into release windows (the day a version of brotli-decompressor was published, plus the next day) and quiet days, and use the median quiet day as the baseline: an upper bound on steady use, never a head count. The method and data come from our study of 90 days of crates.io data from 69 crates, featured in This Week in Rust #674; check any crate live with the real-downloads checker.
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Sources
- Daily downloads: crates.io API, /crates/brotli-decompressor/downloads (last 90 days, all versions), fetched Oct 24, 2026.
- Versions and publish times: crates.io API, /crates/brotli-decompressor/versions, same fetch.
- Reverse dependencies: crates.io reverse dependencies, same fetch. Dependency edges between tracked crates: each crate's default version, crates.io API.
- Fetched politely (one request every 2 seconds, identified User-Agent) per the crates.io data access policy. Data is crates.io's; the release-window split, baseline and verdict rules are ours, CC BY 4.0.
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