Installer webify avec Homebrew

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil

Commandes et alias

• webify

Historique du projet

The `beefsack/webify` repository was created on August 25, 2020, and published a burst of ten GitHub releases from v1.0.0 through v1.5.0 during August 2020. The project is MIT-licensed and describes itself as a way to turn shell commands into web services.

The README's design goal is zero configuration: webify forwards every request to a single script, writes the request body to standard input, returns standard output as the HTTP response body, and maps a non-zero process exit to HTTP 500.

Historique d'adoption

The project appears to have remained a compact utility rather than a large ecosystem. By July 2026 the GitHub API showed under one thousand stars and a few dozen forks, enough to indicate developer interest but not enough public record for a deep adoption narrative.

Modes d'utilisation

The canonical example is wrapping `wc -c` so an HTTP POST body is counted by a shell command. That pattern generalizes to small internal services, demos, glue scripts, and throwaway automation where a process-oriented interface is simpler than writing a web framework handler.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

webify is interesting as a minimal Unix-to-HTTP adapter: it treats stdin, stdout, and exit status as the application protocol. For package collectors, it is a neat example of the small-tools tradition applied to local web services.

Chronologie

• 2020-08-25: Public GitHub repository `beefsack/webify` created.
• 2020-08-25: v1.0.0 and early 1.x releases published.
• 2020-08-29: v1.5.0 published as the latest listed GitHub release.

Related projects

• webify is conceptually related to CGI, inetd-style command dispatch, shell scripts behind reverse proxies, and lightweight webhook command runners.

Sources

• https://api.github.com/repos/beefsack/webify
• https://api.github.com/repos/beefsack/webify/releases
• https://github.com/beefsack/webify