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Top Lua modules this week

Top downloaded versions in the past 7 days.

RankDownloadsModule
196,794LuaFileSystem 1.9.0-1 by hisham
256,135argparse 0.7.2-1 by argparse
355,037dkjson 2.11-1 by dhkolf
447,896luasystem 0.7.1-1 by lunarmodules
547,377push 0.1-1 by sgraf
645,248penlight 1.15.0-1 by Tieske
744,355say 1.4.1-3 by lunarmodules
844,354luassert 1.9.0-1 by lunarmodules
943,704lua-MessagePack 0.2.1-1 by fperrad
1040,456busted 2.3.0-1 by lunarmodules
1140,280luacheck 1.2.0-1 by lunarmodules
1239,262lua_cliargs 3.0.2-1 by lunarmodules
1324,911LuaSocket 3.1.0-1 by lunarmodules
1414,382luarocks-build-treesitter-parser 6.1.1-1 by neorocks
1514,055lua-cjson 2.1.0.10-1 by OpenResty
1613,052luacov 0.17.0-1 by lunarmodules
1712,192LPeg 1.1.0-2 by gvvaughan
1810,854lua-resty-openssl 1.9.0-1 by fffonion
1910,733lua-resty-redis-connector 0.11.0-0 by pintsized
209,980datafile 0.11-1 by hisham

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

RankDownloadsModule
19,980datafile 0.11-1 by hisham
29,711LuaSec 0.9-1 by lunarmodules
39,309ngx_lua_datadog 0.2.0-1 by sifi_rtb
48,358lua-resty-http 0.18.0-0 by pintsized
57,795LuaSec 1.3.2-1 by lunarmodules
67,410lua-resty-jit-uuid 0.0.7-2 by thibaultcha
77,378Lrexlib-PCRE2 2.9.4-1 by rrt
86,930basexx 0.4.1-1 by aiq
95,927lua_cliargs 3.0-2 by lunarmodules
105,859lua-ffi-zlib 0.6-0 by hamish
115,454lunajson 1.2.3-1 by grafi
125,380binaryheap 0.4-1 by Tieske
135,360luarocks-build-rust-mlua 0.2.7-1 by khvzak
145,255luautf8 0.2.1-1 by Xavier Wang
155,220lua-resty-jwt 0.3.2-1 by cdbattags
165,081base64 1.5-3 by iskolbin
174,999haricot 1.0-1 by catwell
184,634apicast-cli scm-1 by 3scale
194,542sha1 0.6.0-1 by mpeterv
204,416uuid 0.3-1 by Tieske