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Top Lua modules this week

Top downloaded versions in the past 7 days.

RankDownloadsModule
190,945LuaFileSystem 1.9.0-1 by hisham
255,999argparse 0.7.2-1 by argparse
346,964dkjson 2.11-1 by dhkolf
443,079luasystem 0.7.1-1 by lunarmodules
542,658push 0.1-1 by sgraf
639,828penlight 1.15.0-1 by Tieske
739,463luacheck 1.2.0-1 by lunarmodules
838,753say 1.4.1-3 by lunarmodules
938,630luassert 1.9.0-1 by lunarmodules
1038,324lua-MessagePack 0.2.1-1 by fperrad
1135,214busted 2.3.0-1 by lunarmodules
1233,634lua_cliargs 3.0.2-1 by lunarmodules
1320,786LuaSocket 3.1.0-1 by lunarmodules
1416,894lua-cjson 2.1.0.10-1 by OpenResty
1513,500luacov 0.17.0-1 by lunarmodules
1613,077luarocks-build-treesitter-parser 6.1.1-1 by neorocks
1711,850lua-resty-openssl 1.9.0-1 by fffonion
1811,739lua-resty-redis-connector 0.11.0-0 by pintsized
1910,681bit32 5.3.5.1-1 by siffiejoe
2010,486ngx_lua_datadog 0.2.0-1 by sifi_rtb

Top downloaded versions in the past 7 days excluding any that were in last week's top.

RankDownloadsModule
110,681bit32 5.3.5.1-1 by siffiejoe
210,486ngx_lua_datadog 0.2.0-1 by sifi_rtb
310,037datafile 0.11-1 by hisham
49,067LuaSec 0.9-1 by lunarmodules
57,992lua-resty-http 0.18.0-0 by pintsized
66,927LuaSec 1.3.2-1 by lunarmodules
76,232org.conman.parsers.json 1.0.1-0 by spc476
86,051Lrexlib-PCRE2 2.9.4-1 by rrt
95,810lua-resty-http 0.17.2-0 by pintsized
105,576luarocks-build-rust-mlua 0.2.7-1 by khvzak
115,358basexx 0.4.1-1 by aiq
125,299lua_cliargs 3.0-2 by lunarmodules
135,089lunajson 1.2.3-1 by grafi
144,995lua-resty-jit-uuid 0.0.7-2 by thibaultcha
154,929binaryheap 0.4-1 by Tieske
164,539lua-ffi-zlib 0.6-0 by hamish
174,434base64 1.5-3 by iskolbin
184,250busted-htest 1.0.0-2 by hisham
194,237lua-resty-jwt 0.4.0-1 by cdbattags
204,131numextra 0.2-1 by luarocks