Lua isn’t equipped out of the box for web tasks, but with the socket library and http module, it’s a cinch.
socket
http
Lua does not have a built-in library for parsing HTML, but you can utilize third-party libraries like LuaHTML or leverage bindings for libxml2 through LuaXML.
LuaHTML
libxml2
LuaXML
Lua doesn’t have built-in HTTP support, so we use libraries.
Lua doesn’t have built-in HTTP support, so you’ll need an external library like socket.http from LuaSocket or http.request from the http library if you’re using Lua 5.3+.
socket.http
http.request