Installing the command-line executable

Assuming you have Rust/Cargo installed, run this command in a terminal:

cargo install cargo-collect

It will make the cargo-collect command available in your PATH if you've allowed the PATH to be modified when installing Rust. cargo uninstall cargo-collect uninstalls.

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cargo-collect

A Cargo subcommand for recursive download of crates and thier dependencies from crates.io.

Description

cargo-collect can be used to download a gzipped archive of given crate, in the exact form that it was uploaded to crates.io.

This can be useful for a variety of things, such as:

download the crates to upload to third party registry with cargo-upload.
security auditing of crates (esp. when a crate repository is missing).
reproducing a bug that only occurs in uploaded versions of your crate.

Installation

cargo-collect can be installed with cargo install

$ cargo install cargo-collect

This shall put the cargo-collect executable in your Cargo binary directory (e.g. ~/.cargo/bin), which hopefully is in your $PATH.

Usage

To download the newest version of foo crate and its dependencies, do this:

$ cargo collect foo --output /path/to/optput/folder

For more detailed usage instructions, run cargo collect --help.

License

cargo-collect is licensed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3