quicksheet-crates

A QuickSheet extension for looking up Rust crates on crates.io.

Usage

Cell value	Output
crates: tokio	Detail view — version, downloads, description, link
crates: serde	Detail view for the serde crate
crates: search async	Top 5 crates matching "async"
crates: search http client	Top 5 crates matching "http client"

Example output

tokio v1.52.3 | ↓689.4M total (↓155.1M/mo)
An event-driven, non-blocking I/O platform for writing asynchronous I/O backed applications.
https://tokio.rs
keywords: async, futures, io, non-blocking

1. serde v1.0.228 ↓1020.2M | A generic serialization/deserialization framewo...
2. bincode v2.0.1 ↓158.5M | A binary serialization / deserialization strategy...
3. rmp-serde v1.3.0 ↓68.3M | MessagePack de/serialization for Serde
4. ciborium v0.2.2 ↓41.2M | CBOR encoded data to Serde
5. serde_bare v0.5.0 ↓1.2M | Serde serialization for the BARE format

Features

• Crate detail — latest version, all-time downloads, recent downloads (30-day), description, homepage/repo link, keywords
• Search — top 5 results by relevance from crates.io full-text search
• Smart caching — detail views cached 30 min, search results 10 min (reduces API calls)
• Colored indicators — download count formatted as B/M/k for readability

Installation

Requires QuickSheet and .NET 9 SDK.

1. Clone this repo into your QuickSheet extensions directory:

   git clone https://github.com/Deskworks/quicksheet-crates ~/.config/quicksheet/extensions/quicksheet-crates

2. In QuickSheet, type ext: crates in any cell to load the extension.
3. Type crates: tokio in another cell to look up a crate.

API

Uses the free, public crates.io API — no authentication required. Please respect the crates.io rate limit: responses are cached to minimize API calls.

License

MIT