# Install pywhat

Identify anything: emails, IP addresses, and more. Version 5.1.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-03-31.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:pywhat
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install pywhat
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install pywhat
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: security/pywhat/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package Facts

- **Package key:** brew:pywhat
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager URL:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/pywhat>
- **Version:** 5.1.0
- **Source summary:** Identify anything: emails, IP addresses, and more
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ae/31/57bb23df3d3474c1e0a0ae207f8571e763018fa064823310a76758eaef81/pywhat-5.1.0.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-03-31T11:18:28Z
- **Generated:** 2026-06-10T07:18:26+00:00

## Executables

- pywhat (cli)
- what (cli)
- pywhat (alias)
- what (alias)

## Dependencies

- python@3.14

## Install Behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on all

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-06-10
- Package-manager version: 5.1.0
- Package-manager updated: 2026-03-31
- Local data status: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** pywhat
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 2
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- MacPorts - pywhat: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: security/pywhat/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


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- [python@3.14](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/python-3-14/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
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## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph