ipget mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• ipget

Projektgeschichte

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.

Adoptionsgeschichte

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.

Wie es verwendet wird

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.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

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.

Zeitleiste

• 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.

Quellen

• https://github.com/ipfs/ipget
• https://github.com/ipfs/ipget/issues/18
• https://github.com/ipfs/ipget/releases