Alternatives to re2
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. re2 itself: install re2.
python-tabulate
Pretty-print tabular data in Python, a library and a command-line utility. Repository migrated from bitbucket.org/astanin/python-tabulate
jc
CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. Thi
fabric-ai
Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. It provides a modular system for solving specific problems using a crowdsourced set
folly
An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook
blis
BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software Framework
needle
Compile-time safe Swift dependency injection framework
twarc
A command line tool (and Python library) for archiving Twitter JSON
plutoprint
A Python Library for Generating PDFs and Images from HTML, powered by PlutoBook
tern
Tern is a software composition analysis tool and Python library that generates a Software Bill of Materials for container images and Dockerfiles. The
ghidra
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
curl
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LD
leveldb
LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values
lux
👾 Fast and simple video download library and CLI tool written in Go
vegeta
HTTP load testing tool and library. It's over 9000!
age
A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability
catch2
A modern, C++-native, test framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD - using C++14, C++17 and later (C++11 support is in v2.x branch, and C++03 on the Cat
libphonenumber
Google's common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers
katana
A next-generation crawling and spidering framework
monolith
⬛️ CLI tool and library for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
ggml
Tensor library for machine learning
pytest
The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing
httpx
httpx is a fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit that allows running multiple probes using the retryablehttp library
syft
CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems
kubebuilder
Kubebuilder - SDK for building Kubernetes APIs using CRDs
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than re2 — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
re2 is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.