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)

ug-lua-llm by unabated_games — downloads: 20
Unified Lua client for cloud LLM APIs, local Ollama models, and OpenAI-compatible endpoints
lnko by owloops — downloads: 2
Simple stow-like dotfile linker
mote by owloops — downloads: 4
Lightweight Lua HTTP server with routing and middleware
typer by ColinKennedy — downloads: 27
mypy --strict, for Lua
kong-plugin-presence by ocularminds — downloads: 21
Presence gateway filter for Kong — CAPTCHA replacement and presence verification at the API gateway.

Most Downloaded

(This week)

lua-cjson by OpenResty — downloads: 24m
Fast JSON encoding/parsing support for Lua
LuaFileSystem by hisham — downloads: 15m
File System Library for the Lua Programming Language
lua-resty-http by pintsized — downloads: 9.9m
Lua HTTP client cosocket driver for OpenResty / ngx_lua.
lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags — downloads: 8.7m
JWT for ngx_lua and LuaJIT.
dkjson by dhkolf — downloads: 7.9m
David Kolf's JSON module for Lua

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Daily Module Downloads

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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