RE: cargo fetch

Hi All

I've got answer from them:

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Carlos Euros (crates.io Help - Rust Programming Language) 
Jun 2, 2026, 16:35 UTC 
Yes, using static.crates.io you do not need to set a custom user agent, there is no rate limit, and that is preferred over making requests to crates.io/api.
 
Thanks,
Carlos
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Thanks,

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AS56662

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcin Gondek 
Sent: Monday, June 1, 2026 5:22 PM
To: 'Jonathan Perkin' <[email protected]>; Adam <[email protected]>
Cc: NetBSD tech-pkg <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: cargo fetch

Hi All,

Just looked on their discussion forum.

"I would also recommend that you download the files directly from the CDN instead of going through our API servers: e.g. https://static.crates.io/crates/libc/0.2.185/download or https://static.crates.io/crates/libc/libc-0.2.185.crate. That addresses the rate limit concern mentioned in xxxx  (comment) since the 1 req/sec limit only applies to our API servers."

was
https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/serde/1.0.0/download 
could be
https://static.crates.io/crates/serde/serde-1.0.0.crate
or
https://static.crates.io/crates/serde/1.0.0/download

I've still no responses from them, not sure that we need to wait, maybe we should follow with static and no-api approach and we are good.

Thanks,

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AS56662

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Perkin <[email protected]> 
Sent: Monday, June 1, 2026 2:37 PM
To: Adam <[email protected]>
Cc: Marcin Gondek <[email protected]>; NetBSD tech-pkg <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: cargo fetch

* On 2026-06-01 at 13:27 BST, Adam wrote:

>My patch, which can be applied when Marcin gets the answer from crates.io:

I was just writing something similar ;)  This works for me with a couple of test packages, including ones with "+" distfiles like devel/cargo-c.

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