diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8c5b023..72d59dd 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -270,6 +270,30 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "form_urlencoded"
+version = "1.2.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e13624c2627564efccf4934284bdd98cbaa14e79b0b5a141218e507b3a823456"
+dependencies = [
+ "percent-encoding",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "git2"
+version = "0.14.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d0155506aab710a86160ddb504a480d2964d7ab5b9e62419be69e0032bc5931c"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 1.3.2",
+ "libc",
+ "libgit2-sys",
+ "log",
+ "openssl-probe",
+ "openssl-sys",
+ "url",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "glob"
 version = "0.3.1"
@@ -317,6 +341,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "idna"
+version = "0.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "634d9b1461af396cad843f47fdba5597a4f9e6ddd4bfb6ff5d85028c25cb12f6"
+dependencies = [
+ "unicode-bidi",
+ "unicode-normalization",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ignore"
 version = "0.4.22"
@@ -383,6 +417,46 @@ version = "0.2.153"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "9c198f91728a82281a64e1f4f9eeb25d82cb32a5de251c6bd1b5154d63a8e7bd"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "libgit2-sys"
+version = "0.13.5+1.4.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "51e5ea06c26926f1002dd553fded6cfcdc9784c1f60feeb58368b4d9b07b6dba"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "libc",
+ "libssh2-sys",
+ "libz-sys",
+ "openssl-sys",
+ "pkg-config",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "libssh2-sys"
+version = "0.2.23"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b094a36eb4b8b8c8a7b4b8ae43b2944502be3e59cd87687595cf6b0a71b3f4ca"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "libc",
+ "libz-sys",
+ "openssl-sys",
+ "pkg-config",
+ "vcpkg",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "libz-sys"
+version = "1.1.18"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c15da26e5af7e25c90b37a2d75cdbf940cf4a55316de9d84c679c9b8bfabf82e"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "libc",
+ "pkg-config",
+ "vcpkg",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "linux-raw-sys"
 version = "0.4.13"
@@ -413,6 +487,24 @@ version = "1.19.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3fdb12b2476b595f9358c5161aa467c2438859caa136dec86c26fdd2efe17b92"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "openssl-probe"
+version = "0.1.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ff011a302c396a5197692431fc1948019154afc178baf7d8e37367442a4601cf"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "openssl-sys"
+version = "0.9.102"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c597637d56fbc83893a35eb0dd04b2b8e7a50c91e64e9493e398b5df4fb45fa2"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "libc",
+ "pkg-config",
+ "vcpkg",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "os_pipe"
 version = "1.1.5"
@@ -423,6 +515,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "percent-encoding"
+version = "2.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e3148f5046208a5d56bcfc03053e3ca6334e51da8dfb19b6cdc8b306fae3283e"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "pkg-config"
+version = "0.3.30"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d231b230927b5e4ad203db57bbcbee2802f6bce620b1e4a9024a07d94e2907ec"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro2"
 version = "1.0.78"
@@ -664,6 +768,21 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tinyvec"
+version = "1.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "87cc5ceb3875bb20c2890005a4e226a4651264a5c75edb2421b52861a0a0cb50"
+dependencies = [
+ "tinyvec_macros",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tinyvec_macros"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1f3ccbac311fea05f86f61904b462b55fb3df8837a366dfc601a0161d0532f20"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "toml_datetime"
 version = "0.6.6"
@@ -695,6 +814,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "cc",
  "clap",
  "crossbeam",
+ "git2",
  "ignore",
  "itertools",
  "rayon",
@@ -733,18 +853,50 @@ dependencies = [
  "toml_edit",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-bidi"
+version = "0.3.15"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "08f95100a766bf4f8f28f90d77e0a5461bbdb219042e7679bebe79004fed8d75"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-ident"
 version = "1.0.12"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3354b9ac3fae1ff6755cb6db53683adb661634f67557942dea4facebec0fee4b"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-normalization"
+version = "0.1.23"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a56d1686db2308d901306f92a263857ef59ea39678a5458e7cb17f01415101f5"
+dependencies = [
+ "tinyvec",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "url"
+version = "2.5.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "22784dbdf76fdde8af1aeda5622b546b422b6fc585325248a2bf9f5e41e94d6c"
+dependencies = [
+ "form_urlencoded",
+ "idna",
+ "percent-encoding",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "utf8parse"
 version = "0.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "711b9620af191e0cdc7468a8d14e709c3dcdb115b36f838e601583af800a370a"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "vcpkg"
+version = "0.2.15"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "accd4ea62f7bb7a82fe23066fb0957d48ef677f6eeb8215f372f52e48bb32426"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "wait-timeout"
 version = "0.2.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 98869f2..319672b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ tree-sitter = "0.22.6"
 
 [build-dependencies]
 cc = { version = "1.0.99", features = [ "parallel" ] }
+git2 = "0.14"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 trycmd = "0.15.4"
diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
index 110c92f..3f02b67 100644
--- a/build.rs
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,53 @@
+extern crate git2;
+
+use git2::Repository;
+use std::path::Path;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 
 // https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-scripts.html
 fn main() {
     println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=build.rs");
 
+    let repos = vec![
+        ("tree-sitter-c", "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-c"),
+        ("tree-sitter-cpp", "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-cpp"),
+        ("tree-sitter-cuda", "https://github.com/theHamsta/tree-sitter-cuda"),
+        ("tree-sitter-elixir", "https://github.com/elixir-lang/tree-sitter-elixir"),
+        ("tree-sitter-elm", "https://github.com/elm-tooling/tree-sitter-elm"),
+        ("tree-sitter-go", "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-go"),
+        ("tree-sitter-haskell", "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-haskell"),
+        ("tree-sitter-java", "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-java"),
+        ("tree-sitter-javascript", "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-javascript"),
+        ("tree-sitter-markdown", "https://github.com/tree-sitter-grammars/tree-sitter-markdown"),
+        ("tree-sitter-nix", "https://github.com/cstrahan/tree-sitter-nix"),
+        ("tree-sitter-php", "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-php"),
+        ("tree-sitter-python", "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-python"),
+        ("tree-sitter-ruby", "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ruby"),
+        ("tree-sitter-rust", "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-rust"),
+        ("tree-sitter-scss", "https://github.com/serenadeai/tree-sitter-scss"),
+        ("tree-sitter-typescript", "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-typescript"),
+    ];
+
+
+    let vendor_dir = Path::new("vendor");
+
+    if !vendor_dir.exists() {
+        std::fs::create_dir(vendor_dir).unwrap();
+    }
+
+    for (name, url) in repos {
+        let repo_path = vendor_dir.join(name);
+        if !repo_path.exists() {
+            println!("Cloning {} into {:?}", url, repo_path);
+            match Repository::clone(url, &repo_path) {
+                Ok(_) => println!("Successfully cloned {}", url),
+                Err(e) => eprintln!("Failed to clone {}: {}", url, e),
+            }
+        } else {
+            println!("{} already exists, skipping", repo_path.display());
+        }
+    }
+
     // c
     let c_dir: PathBuf = ["vendor", "tree-sitter-c", "src"].iter().collect();