Glossary / Rust and crates
Glossary · Rust and crates · checked Oct 24, 2026
docs.rs
Short answerdocs.rs builds and hosts API documentation for every crate published to crates.io, for every version, automatically.
Why it matters
It is where you read a crate's API before adopting it. Its builders also download each new version, one of the fetches that inflate release-day download counts.
Our number
Every one of our crate pages links the crate's docs.rs (or its own documentation URL) next to the crates.io and repository links.
Go deeper on this site
Where it shows up here
It appears on 152 pages of this site: 147 Crate pages, 2 Articles, 2 Guides, 1 Open source. A few to start with:
- crates.io download count: 80% of ours arrived with a new version
- LLM proxy benchmark: 200 duplicate calls became 1 (and a 30 s bug)
- How to publish a Rust crate to crates.io
- How to extract the timestamp from a UUIDv7
- aho-corasick downloads, and should you depend on it?
- anstream downloads, and should you depend on it?
- Free Rust crates you can use today.
Sources
- docs.rs about: docs.rs/about (checked Oct 24, 2026)
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