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macOS

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brew install movgrab

local Homebrew formula metadata

overview

Package summary

Downloader for youtube, dailymotion, and other video websites

Project links

Commands and aliases

movgrab

history

Project history and usage

Movgrab is Colum Paget's C command-line downloader for web video and streaming media. The repository README describes it as a downloader for sites such as YouTube, BitChute, and Euronews, and also shows a radio-streaming use case where Movgrab writes a playlist or stream to stdout for a player such as mpg123. The same README credits Movgrab and libUseful to Colum Paget in 2009 and places the project under the GPL.

How it is used

The tool's practical niche is the older Unix style of media acquisition: a single command reads a video-page URL, chooses a downloadable stream, and saves or pipes the result. Its INSTALL notes show the expected autotools workflow and build switches for HTTPS downloads and large-file support, both important for a video downloader. Compared with larger and more actively maintained video downloaders, Movgrab is a smaller, C-based utility with limited visible adoption, so its history is best treated as a niche downloader from an earlier wave of command-line web-video tools.

Sources

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:download,video

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 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

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`movgrab`	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 version3.1.2

manager updated2026-06-19

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detected3.1.2

https://github.com/ColumPaget/Movgrab

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:movgrab
Version	3.1.2
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/movgrab
Homepage	https://github.com/ColumPaget/Movgrab
Repository	https://github.com/ColumPaget/Movgrab
Upstream docs	https://github.com/ColumPaget/Movgrab#readme
License	GPL-3.0-or-later
Source archive	https://github.com/ColumPaget/Movgrab/archive/refs/tags/3.1.2.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-06-19T12:32:39-07:00
Pulse	updated
Dependencies	libressl
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	movgrab
Version Scheme	0
Revision	10
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	yes
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

package graph

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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/movgrab.yml

Used sources

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

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