# Installer webdis avec Homebrew, apt, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de webdis pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:webdis
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install webdis
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install webdis
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: webdis from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#webdis
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/we/webdis/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:webdis
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.1.25
- **Résumé source:** Redis HTTP interface with JSON output
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://webd.is/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/nicolasff/webdis>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-05-18T04:06:56Z
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- webdis (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.1.25
## Historique du projet et usages

Webdis is a small HTTP and WebSocket interface for Redis. It forwards HTTP paths to Redis commands and returns replies in formats such as JSON, making Redis reachable from environments that can speak HTTP but do not have or should not use a native Redis client.

### Historique du projet

Nicolas Favre-Felix created the public Webdis repository in December 2010. A Redis mailing-list announcement the same month described it as a week-old server produced after an IRC discussion about HTTP interfaces to Redis and invited feedback from the Redis community.

The project emerged during Redis's early growth, when developers were experimenting with ways to expose Redis to web applications and scripting environments. Salvatore Sanfilippo replied on the mailing list that there was likely a need for the software in Redis web-related use cases, while also raising access-control concerns that became important for any HTTP-to-database bridge.

### Historique d'adoption

Webdis remained a niche but durable bridge rather than becoming part of Redis itself. Its public repository had nearly 3,000 stars by July 2026 and continued to receive updates, while the package appeared in Debian, Ubuntu, Nix, and Homebrew, which is a strong signal for a small infrastructure tool.

The tool's adoption is clearest where HTTP is the integration point: browser demos, lightweight dashboards, constrained clients, Pub/Sub streaming over chunked transfer, and systems that prefer a reverse-proxy-friendly HTTP surface over direct Redis TCP access.

### Modes d'utilisation

The documented usage pattern is path-based command forwarding: a URL shaped like `/COMMAND/arg0/arg1/...` is executed against Redis, with the response serialized in the selected output format. The project also documents Pub/Sub delivery to HTTP clients using chunked transfer encoding.

In practice, Webdis is useful as a controlled adapter in front of Redis, not as a blanket public database endpoint. Its package-nerd role is to make Redis scriptable from curl, browser JavaScript, or HTTP-only environments while keeping deployment to a small C server and a JSON configuration file.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Webdis is a classic Unix-era adapter package: it does not try to replace Redis or a web framework; it translates one protocol shape into another. That makes it memorable to package users who like small daemons that can be composed with curl, reverse proxies, service managers, and existing databases.

### Chronologie

- 2010-12: The GitHub repository was created.
- 2010-12: The author announced Webdis to the Redis mailing list as a week-old HTTP interface to Redis.
- 2011: Public discussion framed Webdis around the usefulness and risks of exposing Redis through HTTP.
- 2026: The repository remained active and package-manager metadata listed Webdis across several Unix-like ecosystems.

### Related projects

- Related projects include Redis itself, hiredis, nginx Redis modules such as ngx_redis2, REST-ish database gateways, and small HTTP adapter daemons used to expose non-HTTP services to web clients.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/nicolasff/webdis>
- <https://github.com/nicolasff/webdis>
- <https://groups.google.com/g/redis-db/c/p7yKbMyc_m0>
- <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2136267>
- <https://webd.is/>


## Notes de sécurité

formula declares a Homebrew service.

- **Risque Geiger:** orange / moyen
- formula declares a Homebrew service


## 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: webdis.json, webdis.prod.json

## Credential files

- Unix: webdis.json, webdis.prod.json
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - webdis - 0.1.22+ds-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: webdis from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | simple web server providing an HTTP interface to Redis | https://webd.is
- Nix - webdis: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/we/webdis/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - webdis - 0.1.9+dfsg-1.1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: webdis from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | simple web server providing an HTTP interface to Redis | http://webd.is


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/webdis.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/webdis.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
