# getxbook mit Homebrew, Nix installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für getxbook in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:getxbook ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install getxbook ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#getxbook ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ge/getxbook/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:getxbook - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Paketmanager-Seite:** - **Version:** 1.2 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Tools to download ebooks from various sources - **Homepage:** - **Upstream-Dokumentation:** - **Lizenz:** ISC - **Quellarchiv:** - **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00 ## Executables - getabook (cli) - getbnbook (cli) - getgbook (cli) - getabook (Alias) - getbnbook (Alias) - getgbook (Alias) ## Abhängigkeiten - openssl@3 ## Installationsverhalten - Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert - Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-04 - Manager-Version: 1.2 - lokale Daten: OK - Upstream-Repository: https://njw.name/getxbook/ - Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - Info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung getxbook is a small C toolkit for downloading page images from Google Books previews, Amazon Look Inside, and Barnes & Noble Book Viewer. Its place in package history is tied to offline reading, book privacy, and scriptable capture of preview-page services rather than to a large application ecosystem. ### Projektgeschichte Nick White published getxbook as a collection of one-purpose tools: getgbook for Google Books, getabook for Amazon, getbnbook for Barnes & Noble, and an optional Tcl/Tk graphical frontend. The official page frames the project around reading privacy and offline control of page scans, while the download list records public source and binary releases in 2013 and 2015. ### Adoptionsgeschichte Adoption remained niche but visible in Unix package-manager culture. Homebrew carried the macOS formula, and the input package facts also list Nix packaging, which fits the tool's small, source-buildable shape. ### Wie es verwendet wird Practitioners use getxbook by choosing the site-specific command for a book source, letting the tool save page images into a local directory, and resuming partial downloads when a run is stopped. The surrounding scripts support conversion workflows such as searchable PDF, DjVu, and OCR-derived text. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren getxbook is notable as a compact, portable C package with few dependencies beyond libc, sockets, and OpenSSL. For package maintainers, that makes it a classic small utility: easy to build, easy to audit, and heavily shaped by the fragility of the remote services it automates. ### Zeitleiste - 2013: Version 1.1 binaries were published for Linux and Windows. - 2015: Version 1.2 source was published. - Homebrew era: A macOS formula made the command-line tools installable with brew. ### Related projects - The official comparison page discusses PySheng, Google Book Downloader, and a Google Book Downloader userscript as nearby tools with narrower service coverage or heavier dependencies. ### Quellen - - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Details aus der Quelldatenbank - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** getxbook - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 1 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Nix - getxbook: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ge/getxbook/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Verwandte Links - [Secret-risk packages](https://pkg.so/de/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/de/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/de/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Productivity CLI packages](https://pkg.so/de/productivity-cli-packages/) - Matched curated productivity category metadata from av.db. - [openssl@3](https://pkg.so/de/brew/openssl-3/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [joe](https://pkg.so/de/brew/joe/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: c, cli, productivity. - [moodle-dl](https://pkg.so/de/brew/moodle-dl/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, downloader, productivity. - [nedit](https://pkg.so/de/brew/nedit/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: c, cli, productivity. - [liblouis](https://pkg.so/de/brew/liblouis/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: c, cli, productivity. - [yuque-dl](https://pkg.so/de/brew/yuque-dl/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, downloader, productivity. - [zile](https://pkg.so/de/brew/zile/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: c, cli, productivity. - [snownews](https://pkg.so/de/brew/snownews/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: c, cli, productivity. - [odt2txt](https://pkg.so/de/brew/odt2txt/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: c, cli, productivity. - [megatools](https://pkg.so/de/brew/megatools/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, download, openssl, openssl-3, productivity. - [alpine](https://pkg.so/de/brew/alpine/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, openssl, openssl-3, productivity. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/getxbook.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/getxbook.yml) ## Quellen - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - pkgdb category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph