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npm · PyPI · RubyGems +295Exceptionalhealth index
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sharkdp/fdA simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
Rust★ 44.4K↓ 8,857/moSep 16, 2026
PyPI89Excellenthealth index

DataFog/datafog-pythonOffline PII firewall for AI agents and LLM apps: fast local detection and redaction, Claude Code hook, LiteLLM guardrail. Zero network calls, one dependency.
Python★ 72↓ 34K/moSep 9, 2026
npm89Excellenthealth index
TypeScript★ 778↓ 8M/moSep 18, 2026
crates.io · npm89Excellenthealth index

sebastian-software/ferroniOniguruma's regex engine in pure Rust: full Oniguruma syntax, a vscode-oniguruma-compatible TextMate scanner, no C toolchain
Rust★ 9↓ 2,134/moOct 16, 2026
npm88Excellenthealth index
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PyPI · crates.io88Excellenthealth index
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crates.io · npm88Excellenthealth index

leandrocp/lumisSyntax Highlighter powered by Tree-sitter and Neovim themes.
Rust · TypeScript★ 222↓ 29K/moSep 9, 2026
crates.io87Excellenthealth index

fancy-regex/fancy-regexRust library for regular expressions using "fancy" features like look-around and backreferences. Has a mode which aims to be compatible with Oniguruma syntax.
Rust★ 622↓ 18.5M/moAug 27, 2026
npm87Excellenthealth index

micromatch/picomatchBlazing fast and accurate glob matcher written JavaScript, with no dependencies and full support for standard and extended Bash glob features, including braces, extglobs, POSIX brackets, and regular expressions. Used by GraphQL, Jest, Astro, Snowpack, Storybook, bulma, Serverless, fdir, Netlify, AWS Amplify, Revogrid, rollup, routify, open-wc, imba, ava, docusaurus, fast-glob, globby, chokidar, anymatch, cloudflare/miniflare, pts, and more than 5 million projects! Please follow picomatch's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert
JavaScript★ 1,294↓ 1.8B/moSep 16, 2026
crates.io86Excellenthealth index

BurntSushi/ripgrepripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
Rust★ 68.3K↓ 40.3K/moSep 16, 2026
Go86Excellenthealth index

coregx/coregexPure Go production-grade regex engine with SIMD optimizations. Up to 3-3000x+ faster than stdlib.
Go★ 270Oct 19, 2026
npm86Excellenthealth index
JavaScript · TypeScript★ 56↓ 61M/moSep 15, 2026

Genivia/ugrep🔍 ugrep 7.8 file pattern searcher -- a user-friendly, faster, more capable grep replacement. Includes a TUI, Google-like Boolean search with AND/OR/NOT, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches (nested) archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and more
C++ · C★ 3,302Sep 24, 2026
crates.io83Excellenthealth index
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uhop/node-re2Bindings for RE2: fast, safe alternative to backtracking regular expression engines.
C++ · JavaScript★ 558↓ 13.9M/moAug 27, 2026
npm81Excellenthealth index

FRSOURCE/frs-replaceThe fastest way to replace any text/file/piped stream content. Shipped with both NodeJS API & CLI out of the box!
TypeScript · JavaScript★ 2↓ 3,984/moSep 5, 2026
PyPI81Excellenthealth index
Python★ 65↓ 2,319/moOct 10, 2026
PyPI · crates.io81Excellenthealth index

crate-py/regressPython bindings to the Rust regress crate which provides ECMA regular expressions
Python · Rust★ 3↓ 4.1M/moSep 17, 2026
RubyGems80Excellenthealth index

mudge/re2Ruby bindings to RE2, a "fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative to backtracking regular expression engines like those used in PCRE, Perl, and Python".
Ruby · C++★ 155Sep 28, 2026
crates.io80Excellenthealth index

rust-lang/regexAn implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs.
Rust★ 4,024↓ 279M/moSep 16, 2026
TypeScript★ 0↓ 531/moSep 11, 2026
C#★ 0Sep 14, 2026

speed-highlight/coreA tiny, fast, simple syntax highlighter for the web and the terminal in JavaScript
JavaScript · Svelte★ 408↓ 83.4M/moOct 5, 2026
JavaScript★ 728↓ 8,103/moSep 22, 2026

kaelzhang/node-ignore🔍 node-ignore is the manager and filter for .gitignore rules, the one used by eslint, prettier and many others.
JavaScript★ 501↓ 1.1B/moSep 16, 2026
crates.io · PyPI77Goodhealth index

ml-rust/regexrRegex engine specialized in tokenization and LLM text processing
Rust★ 27↓ 7,628/moOct 19, 2026
PyPI · crates.io · Go75Goodhealth index
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Packagist75Goodhealth index
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