# Install bgpstream with Homebrew For live and historical BGP data analysis. Version 2.3.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:bgpstream ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install bgpstream ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:bgpstream - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 2.3.0 - **Source summary:** For live and historical BGP data analysis - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** BSD-2-Clause - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00 ## Executables - bgpreader (cli) - parsebgp (cli) - bgpreader (alias) - parsebgp (alias) ## Dependencies - librdkafka - wandio ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 2.3.0 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/CAIDA/libbgpstream - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Project history and usage BGPStream is CAIDA's open-source framework for live and historical BGP measurement-data analysis. The Homebrew package exposes the libBGPStream/BGPReader toolchain used to inspect BGP data streams from research and operational datasets. ### Project history CAIDA describes BGPStream as an open-source software framework for live and historical BGP data analysis, supporting scientific research, operational monitoring, and post-event analysis. Its architecture is split into data-access, record extraction and packaging, and record-processing layers, with libBGPStream as the core library. The upstream changelog records version 1.0.0 as the initial public release on 2015-10-26, followed by version 1.1.0 on 2016-01-28 with native community support, proof-of-concept filters for peers/prefixes/communities, broker resilience, utility structures including a patricia tree, and BGPCorsaro AS-monitor work. GitHub tags show the 2.x line reaching v2.0.0 in 2020 and v2.3.0 in 2024. ### Adoption history BGPStream's adoption is research-infrastructure flavored: CAIDA hosts the documentation, data-provider information, publications, APIs, tutorials, and download surface, while the GitHub repository provides the source and accepts pull requests. The package-manager footprint in this input is Homebrew-only, but upstream documents Ubuntu/Debian, FreeBSD, macOS, CentOS, Arch Linux, and generic Unix installation paths. ### How it is used Users can consume BGP data through the bgpreader CLI, libBGPStream C/C++ API, PyBGPStream bindings, and metadata/data-access components. Typical uses include replaying historical routing data over a time window, monitoring real-time data, developing Python analyses, or building high-performance C/C++ routing-data pipelines. ### Why package nerds care BGPStream is important to package nerds because it turns Internet-scale routing telemetry into a locally installable library and CLI instead of a pile of collector-specific dump-fetch scripts. Packaging it makes serious BGP forensics possible from a laptop or lab machine: install the formula, run bgpreader or link libBGPStream, and query RouteViews/RIS-style measurement data through a consistent API. For network operators and researchers, the package is also a reproducibility tool. Historical BGP incidents, hijack investigations, outage postmortems, and measurement papers need exact time-window replay and consistent parsing; BGPStream provides the common substrate for that work. ### Timeline - 2014: The libBGPStream repository history begins. - 2015: Version 1.0.0 is recorded as the initial public release. - 2016: Version 1.1.0 adds native community support and early peer/prefix/community filters. - 2020: The v2.0.0 tag lands in the GitHub repository. - 2024: The v2.3.0 tag is recorded in the GitHub repository. ### Related projects - The framework includes libBGPStream, BGPReader, PyBGPStream, the broker/metadata API, and integrations around libparsebgp and BGPCorsaro. Its data-access role connects it to public BGP measurement infrastructures such as RouteViews and RIPE RIS through CAIDA's supported data-provider interfaces. ### Sources - - - - - - ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** bgpstream - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Related links - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Database and data packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/database-data-tools/) - Matched database, SQL, migration, or data-store metadata. - [wandio](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/wandio/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [bgpdump](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/bgpdump/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bgp, cli, networking. - [bgpq3](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/bgpq3/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bgp, cli, networking. - [bgpq4](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/bgpq4/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bgp, cli, networking. - [dnsviz](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dnsviz/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: analysis, cli, networking. - [monocle](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/monocle/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bgp, cli, networking. - [rpki-client](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/rpki-client/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bgp, cli, networking. - [zebra](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/zebra/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bgp, cli, networking. - [activemq](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/activemq/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking. - [libtrace](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/libtrace/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: analysis, cli, networking, wandio. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/bgpstream.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/bgpstream.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - cross-ecosystem install command graph