API Reference

Every signature below is taken from the actual source (src/). Import everything through one module:

zig

const treesitter = @import("treesitter");

Create parsers, load languages, parse source incrementally.

Parser.init(allocator) Parser

Own the syntax tree, its text, and its node pool.

Parser.parseString(source) Tree

Lightweight, allocation-free handles into a tree.

Tree.rootNode() Node

Stateful traversal with depth and field tracking.

Tree.cursor() TreeCursor

Generic grammar data: symbols, tables, fields, metadata.

Parser.setLanguage(Language)

Compiled structural patterns with captures and predicates.

Parser.compileQuery(source) Query

Execute queries and iterate matches.

Parser.queryCursor() QueryCursor

Memory, callback, and reader-backed sources.

Parser.parseWithInput(old, edit, input)

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