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Rust crates · category · data Oct 24, 2026
Text processing crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Crates to deal with the complexities of human language when expressed in textual form.” Below are the 11 crates in it among the 300 most-downloaded crates, ranked by real downloads (quiet-day baseline) instead of raw count.
Short answerBy steady daily use, regex-automata leads Text processing with 3,575,277 real downloads a day (established and steady). 4 of the 11 have 1,000+ dependents; 3 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. Release spikes barely matter here: the median crate got 0.0% of its downloads within 2 days of a release.
11 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| regex-automataEstablished | 3,575,277 | 210 | 3mo | -3% | 1.4B | |
| regexFoundational | 3,355,026 | 24,288 | 3mo | -7% | 1.3B | |
| aho-corasickEstablished | 3,331,047 | 655 | 3mo | +3% | 1.3B | |
| strsimEstablished | 2,956,166 | 733 | 2.6y | -7% | 1.2B | |
| unicode-widthWidely used | 2,194,046 | 3,230 | 13mo | -2% | 901M | |
| utf8_iterPulled in | 2,136,300 | 12 | 2.9y | +4% | 605M | |
| convert_caseWidely used | 1,687,092 | 1,213 | 58d | +0% | 598M | |
| matchersPulled in | 1,581,741 | 3 | 2.3y | -5% | 553M | |
| encoding_rsWidely used | 1,414,714 | 1,424 | 30d | +8% | 594M | |
| bstrEstablished | 1,252,630 | 676 | 2mo | +4% | 472M | |
| unicode-bidiEstablished | 1,058,529 | 190 | 22mo | +5% | 55M |
Click a column to sort; press + to add a crate to a comparison. Real / day = median downloads on days with no release that day or the day before. Each crate's page shows its verdict and the 4 rules behind it. Why this method · this category on crates.io