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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panto-warming by teepark — downloads: 0
Session warming for Pantograph: keep the provider prompt cache warm while you pause.
panto-report-status by teepark — downloads: 0
Terminal-native OSC 7501 lifecycle reporting for panto
hospitalbagchecklist-url-tools by wangneo276-lgtm — downloads: 0
A free hospital bag checklist that tracks what you have, what to buy, what’s packed, what to ask your hospital and what to grab last. Saved on your device; print or PDF.
bazicalculator-url-tools by wangneo276-lgtm — downloads: 0
Free BaZi calculator: Four Pillars, Day Master, Ten Gods, Five Elements and Luck Pillars with true solar time. Plus Zi Wei Dou Shu, Liu Yao, Mei Hua, Qi Men and the Chinese Almanac.
hk-parser by michal92299 — downloads: 1
Lua bindings for hk-parser: parse, query, edit and write HackerOS .hk config files

Most Downloaded

(This week)

lua-cjson by OpenResty — downloads: 24m
Fast JSON encoding/parsing support for Lua
LuaFileSystem by hisham — downloads: 16m
File System Library for the Lua Programming Language
lua-resty-http by pintsized — downloads: 10m
Lua HTTP client cosocket driver for OpenResty / ngx_lua.
lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags — downloads: 8.9m
JWT for ngx_lua and LuaJIT.
dkjson by dhkolf — downloads: 8.8m
David Kolf's JSON module for Lua

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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