goclone を Homebrew でインストール

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• goclone

プロジェクトの歴史

The public goclone repository was created in March 2020 and published a v1.0.0 GitHub release the same day. The README describes the project as a utility for downloading HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, and related files from a website into a local directory while preserving relative link structure.

The project was organized under the goclone-dev GitHub organization and paired with an official goclone.dev site. Its installation story started with an upstream Homebrew tap and later fit the standard Go CLI pattern of `go install github.com/goclone-dev/goclone/cmd/goclone@...` plus Homebrew packaging.

採用の歴史

GitHub repository metadata showed more than two thousand stars and several hundred forks by June 2026, which is notable for a single-purpose website cloner. Homebrew packages it as formula `goclone`, giving macOS and Linux users a package-manager path in addition to upstream Go builds.

The adoption footprint is centered on developer and archiving workflows: people who want a fast terminal tool to copy a public site for inspection, offline browsing, demos, or migration experiments.

使われ方

Typical usage is `goclone <url>`. The README documents flags for preset cookies, a custom user agent, proxy settings, automatically opening the result, and serving the generated files locally.

Because it rewrites links and pulls static assets into a local directory, goclone is useful for quick site snapshots. It is not a browser automation tool or a full crawler for dynamic application state.

パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

Package nerds care about goclone because it is a compact example of the Go CLI distribution loop: a GitHub-hosted binary tool, a project-specific Homebrew tap, `go install` support, and later a normal Homebrew formula. It also sits in the long lineage of website mirroring tools while using Go's goroutine-friendly concurrency model.

タイムライン

• 2020-03: GitHub repository created and v1.0.0 released.
• 2021-11: v1.2.0 released.
• 2023-06: v1.2.1 released.
• 2025-08: v1.2.2 released.

Related projects

• wget and HTTrack are older website mirroring tools in the same general space.
• Colly is the Go scraping framework referenced by goclone's proxy flag documentation.
• The goclone-dev/homebrew-goclone repository was the upstream tap used before broader Homebrew formula packaging.

ソース

• https://api.github.com/repos/goclone-dev/goclone
• https://api.github.com/repos/goclone-dev/goclone/releases
• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/goclone.json
• https://github.com/goclone-dev/goclone
• https://github.com/goclone-dev/goclone/releases
• https://goclone.dev/