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)

luasf by HubertRonald — downloads: 0
Lua Statistics Functions
luarocks-cross by leso-kn — downloads: 36
Adds cross-build support to luarocks. Part of the LRocket Project
luareq by dbluhm — downloads: 15
Python requests-like HTTP client for Lua
luagir by tokyob0t — downloads: 3
Autocompletion for lua lgi using *.gir files.
teamtype by teamtype — downloads: 5
Lua module with bindings to shared library built from the Rust teamtype crate

Most Downloaded

(This week)

lua-cjson by OpenResty — downloads: 23m
Fast JSON encoding/parsing support for Lua
LuaFileSystem by hisham — downloads: 14m
File System Library for the Lua Programming Language
lua-resty-http by pintsized — downloads: 9.6m
Lua HTTP client cosocket driver for OpenResty / ngx_lua.
lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags — downloads: 8.6m
JWT for ngx_lua and LuaJIT.
LuaSocket by lunarmodules — downloads: 7.6m
Network support for the Lua language

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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