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

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pkgbuild by durrendal — downloads: 0
Extract data from Arch Linux PKGBUILD files, at least properly formatted ones.
apkbuild by durrendal — downloads: 0
An LPEG grammar aimed at parsing Alpine Linux APKBUILD files.
Loon by tommaisey — downloads: 0
Unit and snapshot testing framework.
qluarocks by Swarg — downloads: 2
fake.nvim by Kibadda — downloads: 7

Most Downloaded

(This week)

lua-cjson by OpenResty — downloads: 20m
Fast JSON encoding/parsing support for Lua
LuaFileSystem by hisham — downloads: 9m
File System Library for the Lua Programming Language
lua-resty-http by pintsized — downloads: 6.9m
Lua HTTP client cosocket driver for OpenResty / ngx_lua.
lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags — downloads: 6.3m
JWT for ngx_lua and LuaJIT.
LuaSQL-MySQL by tomasguisasola — downloads: 6.3m
Database connectivity for Lua (MySQL driver)

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Quick Start

Installing LuaRocks in a Unix system:

$ wget https://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.11.1.tar.gz
$ tar zxpf luarocks-3.11.1.tar.gz
$ cd luarocks-3.11.1
$ ./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