LuaRocks - The Lua package manager

LuaRocks is the package manager for Lua modules.

It allows you to create and install Lua modules as self-contained packages called rocks. You can download and install LuaRocks on Unix and Windows. Get started

LuaRocks is free software and uses the same license as Lua.

Recent Modules

(View all) (Recent versions)

luasec-scanner by Vaibhav91one — downloads: 6
Static security scanner for Lua in embedded firmware: finds remote code execution.
htb by fab31 — downloads: 64
Generate Linux tc (traffic control) rules from a TOML configuration
seowebchecker by seowebchecker — downloads: 30
Lightweight on-page technical SEO audit client SDK for Lua.
pancat by Freed-Wu — downloads: 1
syntax highlight code in pandoc
argparse-temp by Freed-Wu — downloads: 593
A feature-rich command-line argument parser

Most Downloaded

(This week)

lua-cjson by OpenResty — downloads: 24m
Fast JSON encoding/parsing support for Lua
LuaFileSystem by hisham — downloads: 16m
File System Library for the Lua Programming Language
lua-resty-http by pintsized — downloads: 10m
Lua HTTP client cosocket driver for OpenResty / ngx_lua.
lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags — downloads: 8.8m
JWT for ngx_lua and LuaJIT.
dkjson by dhkolf — downloads: 8.5m
David Kolf's JSON module for Lua

View Modules by Labels

audio, authentication, awesome, aws, base-n, batteries, bitwise, commandline, compression, crypto, database, datastructure, dbus, debug, dns, doc, email, event, feed, ffi, filesystem, game, git, gui, haml, html, http, i18n, image, ini, irc, jit, json, kong, lapis, lint, linux, logs, love, lpeg, markdown, math, messagepack, metalua, midi, mjolnir, moonscript, mpi, neovim, network, nginx, object, openresty, posix, redis, regexp, rocks, search, security, serialization, spreadsheet, statemachine, strict, template, test, threads, time, torch, unicode, vim, web, wiki, windows, wsapi, xml, yaml, zeromq

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Quick Start

Installing LuaRocks in a Unix system:

$ wget https://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.13.0.tar.gz
$ tar zxpf luarocks-3.13.0.tar.gz
$ cd luarocks-3.13.0
$ ./configure && make && sudo make install
$ sudo luarocks install luasocket
$ lua
Lua 5.3.5 Copyright (C) 1994-2018 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> require "socket"

On Windows? Installation instructions for Windows.

Contributing Modules

Anyone can upload and host Lua modules.

Register an account and upload a .rockspec to create a new module. If your module name is not taken it will be added to the root manifest.

After you have uploaded a .rockspec, you can upload .rock files for a specific version by going to the version’s page. Rock files ensure that your module will be installable as long as this site is up.

The most recent version of LuaRocks supports uploading modules with the upload command:

$ luarocks upload my_thing-1.0-1.rockspec

For older LuaRocks installations, you can use moonrocks:

$ luarocks install moonrocks
$ moonrocks upload my_thing-1.0-1.rockspec