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Install gitter-cli with Homebrew

Extremely simple Gitter client for terminals. Version 0.8.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

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brew install gitter-cli

local Homebrew formula metadata

overview

Package summary

Extremely simple Gitter client for terminals

Commands and aliases

  • gitter-cli

history

Project history and usage

gitter-cli is a small terminal client for Gitter rooms. It belongs to the mid-2010s wave of chat and collaboration tools that exposed web service workflows through command-line programs.

Project history

The public repository was opened in 2015 by Rodrigo Espinosa, and the npm registry records the package publication in April 2015. The README presents the tool as a console Gitter client installed globally with npm and authenticated with a personal access token from Gitter's developer site.

The repository's tag history reached the 0.8 series in 2015, and Homebrew packaged the same 0.8.5 release line. The project remained narrow in scope: room discovery, joining a room, setting an auth token, and sending or reading chat messages from a terminal screen.

Adoption history

Adoption evidence is modest but source-backed: the project was published to npm, later appeared as a Homebrew formula, and attracted enough GitHub interest to be preserved as a package-manager install. Its value was tied less to a broad ecosystem and more to the convenience of using Gitter without leaving a terminal session.

How it is used

Practitioners used gitter-cli by installing the global command, authorizing it with a Gitter token, listing rooms, joining a named room, and navigating chat with keyboard bindings. The README also documented an ephemeral `--token` option for sessions where the token should not be persisted.

Why package nerds care

For package catalogues, gitter-cli is a compact example of a web-service CLI distributed through both npm and Homebrew. It shows how package managers picked up even small collaboration clients when they made a terminal workflow possible.

Timeline

  • 2015: GitHub repository opened.
  • 2015: npm package publication recorded.
  • 2015: README documented npm global installation and token-based Gitter authorization.
  • 2015: v0.8.5 tag recorded for the 0.8 release line.

Related projects

  • Gitter developer API and Gitter chat rooms.
  • npm global command-line packages.
  • Homebrew formula packaging for small terminal utilities.

security posture

Risk level: blue

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

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

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

Signals

  • text:client

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 1 platform targets.
  • Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
gitter-clicliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version0.8.5
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.8.5

https://github.com/RodrigoEspinosa/gitter-cli

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:gitter-cli
Version0.8.5
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gitter-cli
Homepagehttps://github.com/RodrigoEspinosa/gitter-cli
Repositoryhttps://github.com/RodrigoEspinosa/gitter-cli
Upstream docshttps://github.com/RodrigoEspinosa/gitter-cli#readme
LicenseMIT
Source archivehttps://github.com/RodrigoEspinosa/gitter-cli/archive/refs/tags/v0.8.5.tar.gz
Dependenciesnode
Bottleavailable (on all)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namegitter-cli
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • nodeRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

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  • gurkShares av.db curated category or tags: chat, cli, messaging, productivity.
  • meliShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, productivity, terminal-client.
  • reddixShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, productivity, terminal-client.
  • abookShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, productivity, terminal.
  • aercShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, productivity, terminal.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

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