ArchiveBox Homebrew Tap

June 9, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

Caution

This tracks dev releases, not stable! Report any issues you encounter please!
Use the normal pip install archivebox method if you want a stable release.

brew tap archivebox/archivebox
brew install archivebox

mkdir -p ~/archivebox/data
cd ~/archivebox/data
archivebox init
archivebox install

This tap tracks ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox@dev. The formula is regenerated when the dev branch changes, with an hourly fallback workflow in this repo.

This is not a "proper homebrew package" it's just a wrapper for the normal pip-based install, for users that prefer installing & updating with brew.

Maintenance

  • Formula/archivebox.rb installs ArchiveBox from the pinned dev git revision.
  • bin/build_brew.sh rewrites that formula from ArchiveBox's pyproject.toml and current dev commit.
  • .github/workflows/update-archivebox-dev.yml commits formula updates.

Do not add Python resource blocks, bottles, or generated dependency lists. ArchiveBox's Python dependencies live in ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox package metadata and are resolved in the formula's Python virtualenv at install time.