# Install extract_url with Homebrew, Nix

Perl script to extracts URLs from emails or plain text. Version 1.6.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:extract_url
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install extract_url
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#extract_url
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:extract_url
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/extract_url>
- **Version:** 1.6.2
- **Source summary:** Perl script to extracts URLs from emails or plain text
- **Homepage:** <https://www.memoryhole.net/~kyle/extract_url/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/m3m0ryh0l3/extracturl>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://www.memoryhole.net/~kyle/extract_url>
- **License:** BSD-2-Clause
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/m3m0ryh0l3/extracturl/archive/refs/tags/v1.6.2.tar.gz>
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- extract_url (cli)
- extract_url (alias)

## Uses from macOS

- ncurses
- perl

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sequoia, sonoma, tahoe, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 1.6.2
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/m3m0ryh0l3/extracturl
- Upstream latest detected: v1.6.2 (current)
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.

## Security Notes

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:** extract_url
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 4
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - extract_url: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ex/extract_url/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related links

- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [Productivity CLI packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/productivity-cli-packages/) - Matched curated productivity category metadata from av.db.
- [mhonarc](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mhonarc/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, perl, productivity.
- [par](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/par/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity, text-processing.
- [aerc](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/aerc/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity.
- [alot](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/alot/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity.
- [alpine](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/alpine/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity.
- [gmailctl](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gmailctl/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity.
- [himalaya](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/himalaya/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity.
- [lbdb](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/lbdb/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity.
- [urlscan](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/urlscan/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, email, or, productivity, url.
- [neverest](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/neverest/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, email, emails, productivity.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/extract_url.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/extract_url.yml)


## 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