How tree-sitter-c is used
tree-sitter-c joined the catalog on its public numbers (465,166 downloads a week on npm and 393 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 16 public GitHub projects of our scan, 0 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use tree-sitter-javascript (100.0%), tree-sitter-python (100.0%), tree-sitter-typescript (JavaScript) (100.0%).
tree-sitter-c popularity over time
Gid Score 41: downloads 57, use in agent projects 24, GitHub stars 0, downloads trend 100 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with tree-sitter-c
| tree-sitter-javascript | 100.0% of tree-sitter-c projects · 2069.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| tree-sitter-python | 100.0% of tree-sitter-c projects · 1552.0× more than average |
| tree-sitter-typescript (JavaScript) | 100.0% of tree-sitter-c projects · 1552.0× more than average |
| Model Context Protocol SDK (JavaScript) | 93.8% of tree-sitter-c projects · 9.9× more than average |
| esbuild | 93.8% of tree-sitter-c projects · 20.1× more than average |
| tree-sitter-go | 93.8% of tree-sitter-c projects · 2910.0× more than average |
| Anthropic SDK | 87.5% of tree-sitter-c projects · 23.4× more than average |
| ansi-to-html | 87.5% of tree-sitter-c projects · 679.0× more than average |
How tree-sitter-c is funded
Open Collective: Tree-sitter
| Received, last 12 months | $0 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $0 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $16 |
| Raised since the start | $16 |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $0 |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 0 |
Apr 2025Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Apr 2025. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 13 more tools in our catalog: web-tree-sitter, tree-sitter-typescript (Python), Tree-sitter JavaScript, tree-sitter-java, tree-sitter-rust, tree-sitter-cpp and others.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @tree-sitter | 14 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay.
Ways to fund tree-sitter-c
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective Ko-fi
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install tree-sitter-c |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (16) |
| Example projects | thedotmack/claude-mem, ViaTumLab/Yan-Agent, ijw-fyi/agent-pr |
Alternatives to tree-sitter-c
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Scraping, browsers and parsing does the same job as tree-sitter-c: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
More in Scraping, browsers and parsing: Beautiful Soup Puppeteer lxml Playwright Core Playwright (Python) Cheerio fast-xml-parser jsonc-parser