# getxbook を Homebrew, Nix でインストール

getxbook のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

## インストール

```sh
sudo av install brew:getxbook
```

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install getxbook
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#getxbook
```

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

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:getxbook
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 1.2
- **ソース概要:** Tools to download ebooks from various sources
- **ホームページ:** <https://njw.name/getxbook/>
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- getabook (エイリアス)
- getbnbook (エイリアス)
- getgbook (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 1.2
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

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.

### プロジェクトの歴史

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.

### 採用の歴史

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.

### 使われ方

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.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

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.

### タイムライン

- 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.

### ソース

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/getxbook>
- <https://github.com/phracker/getxbook/blob/master/getxbook.1>
- <https://njw.name/getxbook/>
- <https://njw.name/getxbook/comparison>


## セキュリティノート

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger リスク:** blue / 中
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録

- 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


## Combined YAML source

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


## ソース

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