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GET /v1/meta

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/crates-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/crates-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/crates-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/crates-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "note": "Live Rust crate registry data. /v1/crate = full metadata + recent versions + download counts for a crate; /v1/search = search/rank the registry (sort by downloads, recent-downloads, recent-updates, new, alpha); /v1/dependencies = the dependencies of a crate's newest (or a given) version.",
        "source": "crates.io (the Rust community crate registry)",
        "endpoints": [
            "/v1/crate",
            "/v1/search",
            "/v1/dependencies",
            "/v1/meta"
        ],
        "sort_options": [
            "relevance",
            "downloads",
            "recent-downloads",
            "recent-updates",
            "new",
            "alpha"
        ]
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-05-31T10:14:06.320Z",
        "request_id": "a2e3127f-7657-4617-bd89-21fc36aaa150"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta retrieved",
    "success": true
}