# Install urlscan with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, winget, zypper View/select the URLs in an email message or file. Version 1.0.9 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-06. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:urlscan ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install urlscan ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install urlscan ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: mail/urlscan/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add urlscan ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: urlscan from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install urlscan ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: urlscan from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install urlscan ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: urlscan from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#urlscan ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ur/urlscan/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S urlscan ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: urlscan from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install urlscan ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: urlscan from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ### Windows - winget (92%): ```sh winget install --id Urlscan.urlscan-cli -e ``` Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: Urlscan.urlscan-cli from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:urlscan - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.0.9 - **Source summary:** View/select the URLs in an email message or file - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** GPL-2.0-or-later - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-06T21:15:35Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - urlscan (cli) - urlscan (alias) ## Dependencies - python@3.14 ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on all ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 1.0.9 - Package-manager updated: 2026-06-06 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan - info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Project history and usage urlscan is a terminal URL selector for email messages and text files, especially for users of mutt and similar terminal mail readers. Its README describes it as a replacement for urlview, with added parsing, context display, configurable keybindings, and command execution. ### Project history The project credits Daniel Burrows as the original author, Maxime Chatelle as Debian maintainer, and Scott Hansen as author and maintainer. The public GitHub repository was created in 2011 and continues the classic terminal-mail workflow of piping a message into a curses-style selector and opening or copying selected URLs. ### Adoption history The input package-manager matrix shows urlscan packaged across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora/dnf, Arch/pacman, openSUSE/zypper, MacPorts, Nix, Alpine/apk, and Windows winget. That breadth fits its role as a small but durable utility for terminal email users. ### How it is used The documented mutt integration binds a macro that pipes the current message to urlscan. Once open, users can search incrementally, queue multiple URLs, choose webbrowser or xdg-open handling, copy URLs to the clipboard, or pass the selected URL to another command. ### Why package nerds care urlscan matters in the package-nerd niche because it is a tiny workflow tool that distributions can ship once and many terminal users can compose with mutt, neomutt, shell pipes, xdg-open, and clipboard utilities. ### Timeline - 2011-09-27: Public GitHub repository created. - 2010s: README credits Daniel Burrows' original work and positions urlscan as a urlview replacement. - 2026-06-05: GitHub release metadata records version 1.0.9. ### Related projects - The README explicitly compares urlscan with urlview and lists Python urwid as a runtime requirement. ### Sources - GitHub repository metadata: https://api.github.com/repos/firecat53/urlscan - Input source_facts.package-manager lists cross-distribution packaging. - Official README: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/firecat53/urlscan/main/README.md - Official manpage source: https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan/blob/main/urlscan.1 ## Security Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## 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/urlscan/config.json ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** urlscan - **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 - urlscan - 1.0.3-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: urlscan from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Extract and browse the URLs contained in an email (urlview replacement) | https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan - Nix - urlscan: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ur/urlscan/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - urlscan - 0.9.9-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: urlscan from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Extract and browse the URLs contained in an email (urlview replacement) | https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan - apk - urlscan - 1.0.7-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: urlscan from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Mutt and terminal url selector (similar to urlview) | https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan - apk - urlscan-doc - 1.0.7-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: urlscan-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Mutt and terminal url selector (similar to urlview) (documentation) | https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan - apk - urlscan-pyc - 1.0.7-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: urlscan-pyc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Precompiled Python bytecode for urlscan | https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan - dnf - urlscan - 1.0.9-1.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: urlscan from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Extract and browse the URLs contained in an email (urlview replacement) | https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan - pacman - urlscan - 1.0.9-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: urlscan from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Mutt and terminal url selector | https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan - zypper - urlscan - 1.0.8-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: urlscan from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | An other URL extractor/viewer | https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan - MacPorts - urlscan: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: mail/urlscan/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - winget - Urlscan.urlscan-cli: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: Urlscan.urlscan-cli from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Related links - [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [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. - [Productivity CLI packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/productivity-cli-packages/) - Matched curated productivity category metadata from av.db. - [python@3.14](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/python-3-14/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [aerc](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/aerc/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity, terminal. - [alot](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/alot/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity, terminal. - [alpine](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/alpine/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity, terminal. - [lbdb](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/lbdb/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, mutt, productivity. - [neomutt](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/neomutt/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity, terminal. - [pop](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pop/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity, terminal. - [byobu](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/byobu/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, productivity, terminal. - [cbonsai](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cbonsai/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, productivity, terminal. - [offlineimap](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/offlineimap/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: cli, email, productivity, python, python-3-14. - [gyb](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gyb/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: cli, email, productivity, python, python-3-14. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/urlscan.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/urlscan.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