# Install wscat with npm

WebSocket cat. Version 6.1.0 via npm; verified 2025-05-03.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:wscat
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g wscat
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:wscat
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/wscat>
- **Version:** 6.1.0
- **Source summary:** WebSocket cat
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/websockets/wscat#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/websockets/wscat>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/websockets/wscat#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/wscat/-/wscat-6.1.0.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/websockets/wscat/issues>
- **Published:** 2025-05-03T18:38:12.208Z
- **Last updated:** 2025-05-03T18:38:12.208Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- wscat (cli)
- wscat (alias)

## Dependencies

- commander
- https-proxy-agent
- read
- ws

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-04
- Package-manager version: 6.1.0
- Package-manager updated: 2025-05-03
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/websockets/wscat
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for wscat. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 6.1.0
- **Version Count:** 21
- **Maintainers:** lpinca
- **Author:** Arnout Kazemier, Einar Otto Stangvik
- **Publisher:** lpinca
- **Engines:** Node: >=18
- **Integrity:** sha512-x6gEZvITvqWslR38DoBfnMi37ZBUGsG9rTkGc/200sEfSs1JwgKLZYQeqa0vlu3bxXQV7hEHI4NF7KQmYIzB2A==
- **Shasum:** 0928535f69458f0ac9268311fa06694603db7673
- **Unpacked Size:** 15,494
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2014-11-20T08:32:13.729Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2025-05-03T18:38:12.208Z
- **Modified At:** 2026-07-30T17:59:42.151Z


## Related links

- [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [httpyac](https://pkg.so/npm/httpyac/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: agent, cli, commander, https, https-proxy-agent.
- [lws-rewrite](https://pkg.so/npm/lws-rewrite/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: agent, cli, https, https-proxy-agent, networking.
- [web-push](https://pkg.so/npm/web-push/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: agent, cli, https, https-proxy-agent, networking.

## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph