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Top Lua modules this week

Top downloaded versions in the past 7 days.

RankDownloadsModule
182,339LuaFileSystem 1.9.0-1 by hisham
261,304argparse 0.7.2-1 by argparse
348,139dkjson 2.11-1 by dhkolf
445,628luasystem 0.7.1-1 by lunarmodules
544,876luacheck 1.2.0-1 by lunarmodules
643,791push 0.1-1 by sgraf
741,834penlight 1.15.0-1 by Tieske
840,525say 1.4.1-3 by lunarmodules
940,044luassert 1.9.0-1 by lunarmodules
1039,822lua-MessagePack 0.2.1-1 by fperrad
1137,391busted 2.3.0-1 by lunarmodules
1233,893lua_cliargs 3.0.2-1 by lunarmodules
1319,929LuaSocket 3.1.0-1 by lunarmodules
1416,823lua-cjson 2.1.0.10-1 by OpenResty
1515,853luacov 0.17.0-1 by lunarmodules
1612,229LPeg 1.1.0-2 by gvvaughan
1712,218lua-resty-openssl 1.9.0-1 by fffonion
1811,621lua-resty-redis-connector 0.11.0-0 by pintsized
1911,446datafile 0.11-1 by hisham
2010,729ngx_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
111,621lua-resty-redis-connector 0.11.0-0 by pintsized
210,729ngx_lua_datadog 0.2.0-1 by sifi_rtb
310,406lua-resty-http 0.18.0-0 by pintsized
49,485LuaSec 0.9-1 by lunarmodules
57,797LuaSec 1.3.2-1 by lunarmodules
67,347basexx 0.4.1-1 by aiq
77,197Lrexlib-PCRE2 2.9.4-1 by rrt
86,994lua_cliargs 3.0-2 by lunarmodules
96,140lua-resty-jwt 0.4.0-1 by cdbattags
106,109luarocks-build-rust-mlua 0.2.7-1 by khvzak
115,794luautf8 0.2.1-1 by Xavier Wang
125,757lua-ffi-zlib 0.6-0 by hamish
135,512binaryheap 0.4-1 by Tieske
145,482uuid 0.3-1 by Tieske
155,414base64 1.5-3 by iskolbin
165,406haricot 1.0-1 by catwell
175,283busted 2.2.0-1 by lunarmodules
185,152sha1 0.6.0-1 by mpeterv
194,976LuaFileSystem 1.8.0-1 by hisham
204,876lua-resty-template 2.0-1 by bungle