install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install ipget

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#ipget

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ip/ipget/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Retrieve files over IPFS and save them locally

Project links

Commands and aliases

ipget

history

Project history and usage

ipget is an IPFS command-line downloader: the project describes it as `wget for IPFS`, focused on retrieving files and directory structures from the IPFS network and saving them locally.

Project history

The GitHub repository was created in 2015 under the IPFS organization. Its README frames the tool as a standalone downloader with its own IPFS node, so users do not need a separate IPFS daemon just to fetch content.

A 2016 1.0.0 roadmap shows the early project goals clearly: reliable retrieval, better first-time user experience, binary distribution, and availability through major package managers.

Adoption history

ipget's adoption niche is narrower than the core IPFS daemon: it serves users who want a simple fetch command for IPFS content rather than a full node-management workflow.

The project ships binaries through IPFS distribution channels and appears in Homebrew and Nix, matching the roadmap's emphasis on package-manager availability.

How it is used

Users pass an IPFS path, CID, or IPNS path and optionally choose an output path. The command can use local, spawned, temporary, or fallback node strategies and can display progress.

The package is useful in scripts that need to fetch content-addressed data without teaching the script how to manage a long-running IPFS daemon.

Why package nerds care

ipget is package-nerdy because it maps the familiar Unix downloader shape onto a content-addressed network. It is smaller in scope than Kubo/go-ipfs, but that is exactly why it fits package-manager culture: install one binary, fetch one thing.

It also documents a common IPFS packaging tension: users want IPFS retrieval as a normal CLI utility, while the underlying protocol normally implies node behavior, peers, and network bootstrapping.

Timeline

2015: GitHub repository created under the IPFS organization.
2016: 1.0.0 roadmap calls out reliable builds and retrieval, first-time user experience, binary releases, and package-manager distribution.
2023: v0.10.0 release published on GitHub.
2026: v0.13.1 release published on GitHub.

Related projects

IPFS provides the protocol and network that ipget retrieves from.
GNU wget is the user-interface analogy cited by the ipget README.
Kubo/go-ipfs is the fuller IPFS node implementation that ipget avoids requiring for simple downloads.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Build metadata lists 1 build 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

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`ipget`	cli	global 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 version0.13.1

manager updated2026-04-28

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detectedv0.13.1

https://github.com/ipfs/ipget

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:ipget
Version	0.13.1
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ipget
Homepage	https://github.com/ipfs/ipget/
Repository	https://github.com/ipfs/ipget
Upstream docs	https://github.com/ipfs/ipget#readme
License	MIT
Source archive	https://github.com/ipfs/ipget/archive/refs/tags/v0.13.1.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-04-28T02:17:10Z
Pulse	updated
Build dependencies	go
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

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

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

ipget

nix profile install nixpkgs#ipget

normalized package name match
Matched by: Ipget

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package graph

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

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.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/ipget.yml

Used sources

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

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