# Install gamdl with Homebrew

Python CLI app for downloading Apple Music songs, music videos and post videos. Version 3.8.4 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-18.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:gamdl
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gamdl
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:gamdl
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.8.4
- **Source summary:** Python CLI app for downloading Apple Music songs, music videos and post videos
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/glomatico/gamdl>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-18T02:42:43Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gamdl (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 3.8.4
## Project history and usage

Gamdl is Glomatico's Apple Music Downloader, a Python command-line application for downloading Apple Music songs, music videos, post videos, synced lyrics, and metadata.

### Project history

The official GitHub repository was created in November 2022. The README positions Gamdl as a command-line downloader for Apple Music, with installation through pip, configuration through command-line flags or ~/.gamdl/config.ini, and cookies supplied in Netscape cookies.txt format.

By the 3.x release line in 2026, the project documented high-quality song and video downloads, synced lyrics, Apple Music Classical support, optional wrapper-backed account and decryption requests, and optional N_m3u8DL-RE and FFmpeg integration.

### Adoption history

Gamdl's official README advertises PyPI packaging and monthly download badges, and the input package facts show a Homebrew formula. Its adoption is centered on Python CLI users comfortable supplying browser cookies and optional media-tool dependencies.

### How it is used

Users install gamdl with pip, place cookies.txt in the working directory or configure a cookies path, and pass Apple Music song, album, playlist, artist, music-video, post-video, or Classical URLs. Command-line options and config.ini control output paths, codecs, templates, lyrics formats, metadata language, and download mode.

### Why package nerds care

Gamdl is notable as a modern media-downloader package that is mostly Python application glue: it coordinates service cookies, configurable output templates, yt-dlp-style downloading, optional native tools, and a rapidly moving release stream.

### Timeline

- 2022: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2026: 3.x releases documented frequent updates.
- 2026: Version 3.8 released on June 30.

### Related projects

- wrapper-v2 is an optional companion server for account, playback, and decryption requests.
- N_m3u8DL-RE can be used as an optional faster download mode.
- FFmpeg is required when using N_m3u8DL-RE.
- yt-dlp is used as a file download library in the default mode.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/glomatico/gamdl>
- <https://github.com/glomatico/gamdl>
- <https://github.com/glomatico/gamdl/releases>


## Security Notes

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



## 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

- Linux: ~/.gamdl/config.ini
- Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.gamdl\config.ini

## Credential files

- Unix: ./cookies.txt
- Windows: .\cookies.txt

## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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