# Install httpx with Homebrew, apk, Nix, apt Fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit. Version 1.10.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-09. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:httpx ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install httpx ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add httpx ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: httpx from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#httpx ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ht/httpx/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install python3-httpx ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: python3-httpx from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:httpx - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.10.0 - **Source summary:** Fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** MIT - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-07-09T18:39:48Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-10T07:20:53+00:00 ## Executables - httpx (cli) - httpx (alias) ## Build dependencies - go ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-10 - Package-manager version: 1.10.0 - Package-manager updated: 2026-07-09 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/projectdiscovery/httpx - Upstream latest detected: v1.10.0 (current) ## Project history and usage ProjectDiscovery httpx is a high-throughput HTTP probing toolkit for reconnaissance and security workflows. It accepts hosts, URLs, CIDR ranges, and request files, then emits HTTP metadata such as status code, title, content length, TLS data, CDN detection, technology detection, response time, screenshots, and JSONL output. ### Project history The projectdiscovery/httpx repository was created in May 2020 as part of ProjectDiscovery's security-tooling ecosystem. The README describes it as a fast, multi-purpose HTTP toolkit built around the retryablehttp library and designed to keep result reliability while increasing thread count. The tool evolved as a modular reconnaissance probe rather than a simple HTTP client. Its documented flags cover input normalization, matchers, filters, extractors, rate limiting, headless screenshotting, technology detection, database output, and raw request handling. ### Adoption history httpx became package-manager visible across several ecosystems because it sits in a common recon pipeline role: take many discovered hosts or URLs, probe them quickly, and produce structured output for filtering or downstream tools. The input metadata lists Homebrew, Nix, APK, Debian, and Ubuntu package names, though Debian and Ubuntu package names collide with the unrelated Python HTTPX library. The repository has a large GitHub audience, publishes GitHub releases, and advertises Docker Hub pulls in the README badges. Its ProjectDiscovery documentation and Discord/community links place it inside a broader suite that also includes tools such as nuclei and related reconnaissance utilities. ### How it is used Common usage starts with `httpx -l hosts.txt` or `httpx -u example.com`, then adds probes such as status code, title, web server, response time, TLS certificate, favicon hash, JARM, CDN, ASN, screenshots, or technology detection. The README documents the default config file path as `$HOME/.config/httpx/config.yaml`, plus rate-limit, proxy, resolver, SNI, random-agent, redirect, JSON/CSV, and database-output flags. That makes the tool useful both as an interactive CLI and as a stage in automated recon pipelines. ### Why package nerds care httpx is package-nerd significant partly because its name collides with other ecosystems: in security tooling it means ProjectDiscovery's Go reconnaissance probe, while in Python packaging HTTPX is a separate HTTP client. Package-manager metadata has to disambiguate intent by homepage, executable, and description. It is also a strong example of the modern security CLI package: single-purpose enough to compose in shell pipelines, but broad enough to include JSONL, screenshots, DSL matching, rate limits, and config files for serious scans. ### Timeline - 2020: GitHub repository created under ProjectDiscovery. - 2025: v1.7.x releases published through GitHub releases. - 2026: v1.8.x and v1.9.0 releases published through GitHub releases. - 2026: README documents Go installation, active-development warning, and a broad probe/filter/output flag surface. ### Related projects - ProjectDiscovery retryablehttp-go is named by the README as the HTTP retry library used by httpx. - ProjectDiscovery nuclei is a common companion in security scanning workflows, although it is not the same type of HTTP probe. - curl and httptap overlap on request timing, but httpx is built for bulk reconnaissance and probe enrichment. - Python HTTPX is an unrelated project with a colliding package name in some Linux package-manager metadata. ### Sources - GitHub releases supply the 2025 and 2026 release timeline. - GitHub repository metadata supplies the creation date, description, homepage, license, and popularity signal. - Homebrew and input package-manager metadata support cross-package-manager availability and name-collision notes. - The README supplies the security-recon purpose, retryablehttp dependency, feature list, install command, config path, flags, output modes, and active-development warning. ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: ~/.config/httpx/config.yaml ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** httpx - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - python3-httpx - 0.28.1-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: python3-httpx from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | next generation HTTP client | https://www.python-httpx.org/ - Nix - httpx: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ht/httpx/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - python3-httpx - 0.26.0-2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python3-httpx from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | next generation HTTP client | https://www.python-httpx.org/ - apk - httpx - 1.9.0-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: httpx from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | A fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit that allows running multiple probes. | https://docs.projectdiscovery.io/tools/httpx - apk - httpx-doc - 1.9.0-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: httpx-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | A fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit that allows running multiple probes. (documentation) | https://docs.projectdiscovery.io/tools/httpx ## Related links - [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [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. - [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [amass](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/amass/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, osint, reconnaissance, security. - [bbot](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/bbot/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, osint, reconnaissance, security. - [favirecon](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/favirecon/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, osint, reconnaissance, security. - [findomain](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/findomain/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, osint, reconnaissance, security. - [recon-ng](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/recon-ng/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, osint, reconnaissance, security. - [subfinder](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/subfinder/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, osint, reconnaissance, security. - [theharvester](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/theharvester/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, osint, reconnaissance, security. - [uncover](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/uncover/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, osint, reconnaissance, security. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/httpx.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/httpx.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph