installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%

brew install websocat

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsvérifié · 94%

sudo port install websocat

MacPorts ports tree · net/websocat/Portfile · Source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkvérifié · 92%

sudo apk add websocat

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · websocat · Source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Nixvérifié · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#websocat

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/we/websocat/package.nix · Source: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanvérifié · 92%

sudo pacman -S websocat

Arch Linux sync databases · websocat · Source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

Windows

Scoopvérifié · 92%

scoop install main/websocat

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/websocat.json · Source: api.github.com

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Command-line client for WebSockets

Liens du projet

Commandes et alias

websocat

historique

Historique du projet et usages

websocat is a Rust command-line WebSocket client and relay tool created by Vitaly "Vi" Shukela. Its own documentation describes it as the WebSocket analogue of netcat, curl, or socat: a small CLI that connects standard input/output, TCP, Unix sockets, subprocesses, and WebSocket endpoints.

Historique du projet

The GitHub repository and crates.io package both date from November 2016, placing websocat in the wave of developer tools that treated RFC 6455 WebSockets as a normal Unix-stream target rather than only a browser API. The project grew around a compact idea: make `ws://` and `wss://` endpoints scriptable from a shell while still supporting more advanced socat-style addressing and overlays.

The reference manual documents three enduring modes: simple client mode, simple server mode, and an advanced mode that connects two address specifications. Later releases kept that model while adding a large address/overlay vocabulary, binary and text handling, subprocess bridging, proxying, TLS/WebSocket options, and server-side use cases.

Historique d'adoption

websocat became a common package-manager tool because it filled the same niche for WebSockets that `curl` fills for HTTP and `nc` fills for TCP: quick inspection, smoke testing, and shell automation. By July 2026, the GitHub repository had more than eight thousand stars, and the crates.io package metadata showed publication continuity from 2016 through the 1.14.x line.

Its README explicitly lists sibling tools such as wscat, websocketd, wstunnel, and wsd, which situates websocat in a small ecosystem of command-line WebSocket utilities. Compared with simpler clients, its package-nerd appeal is the socat-like address system that lets it act as a connector, relay, or miniature protocol adapter.

Modes d'utilisation

Typical use starts with `websocat wss://example/path` to send terminal lines as WebSocket messages and print replies. The same binary can listen as a WebSocket server, forward between WebSocket and TCP or Unix sockets, or run an external program and connect that process to a WebSocket stream.

Because it is useful in pipelines, CI smoke tests, reverse-proxy debugging, and ad hoc protocol work, websocat is often installed alongside curl, netcat, socat, and jq on developer machines rather than deployed as an application dependency.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

websocat matters to package-manager users because it turns WebSockets into a first-class shell transport. It is the boring, dependable diagnostic binary people reach for when a browser console, custom script, or full application client would be too much machinery.

Chronologie

2016-11: GitHub repository and crates.io package created.
2019: Public issues and examples show users applying websocat to JSON requests, recording output, and WebSocket testing workflows.
2024-11: v1.14.0 release described as the 1.x line nearing sunset while Websocat4 previews began.
2025-12: v1.14.1 maintenance release and v4.0.0 alpha releases published.

Related projects

The README points users toward wstunnel, wscat, websocketd, and wsd as related WebSocket command-line tools. websocat is closest in spirit to socat and netcat because it focuses on connecting endpoints rather than embedding a WebSocket library in an application.

Sources

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Classificateur de risque

risque blue · confiance moyen · tool

Pourquoi

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signaux

text:client

Comportement d'installation

Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 6 plateformes.
Les métadonnées de compilation listent 2 dépendances de compilation.

Revue recommandée

Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.

exécutables

Exécutables installés

Commande	Type	Exposition	Note
`websocat`	cli	exécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.

page générée2026-07-25

version du gestionnaire1.14.1

gestionnaire mis à jour

données localesOK

amontà jour

dernière version détectéev1.14.1

https://github.com/vi/websocat

infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquet	brew:websocat
Version	1.14.1
Gestionnaire de paquets	Homebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquets	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/websocat
Page d'accueil	https://github.com/vi/websocat
Dépôt	https://github.com/vi/websocat
Docs amont	https://github.com/vi/websocat#readme
Licence	MIT
Archive source	https://github.com/vi/websocat/archive/refs/tags/v1.14.1.tar.gz
Dépendances de compilation	pkgconf, rust
Bouteille	disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
post-install Homebrew	non défini
Service	aucun déclaré

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	websocat
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

Nix95%

websocat

nix profile install nixpkgs#websocat

normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Websocat

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/we/websocat/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

apk95%

websocat 1.14.1-r0

Netcat, curl and socat for WebSockets

https://github.com/vi/websocat

sudo apk add websocat

License: MIT
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: websocat
1 Dépendances
1 fournit
normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Websocat

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: websocat from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

pacman95%

websocat 1.14.1-1

Command-line client for web sockets, like netcat/curl/socat for ws://

https://github.com/vi/websocat/

sudo pacman -S websocat

License: MIT
Architecture: x86_64
3 Dépendances
normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Websocat

Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: websocat from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

MacPorts95%

websocat

sudo port install websocat

normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Websocat

MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: net/websocat/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Scoop95%

main/websocat

scoop install main/websocat

normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Websocat

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/websocat.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

graphe de paquets

Les liens viennent du graphe local de relations entre paquets, des suppléments, des dépendances, des correspondances d'écosystèmes et de l'appartenance aux hubs.

piste source

Généré depuis les données du dépôt

Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/websocat.yml

Sources utilisées

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

Installer websocat avec Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop