# Install goolabs with Homebrew

Command-line tool for morphologically analyzing Japanese language. Version 0.4.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-21.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:goolabs
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install goolabs
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:goolabs
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.4.0
- **Source summary:** Command-line tool for morphologically analyzing Japanese language
- **Homepage:** <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/goolabs>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-21T11:31:35Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- goolabs (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.4.0
## Project history and usage

goolabs is a small Python API client and command-line tool for Goo Labs Japanese-language APIs. Its README focuses on API access for tasks such as morphological analysis, similarity scoring, hiragana and katakana conversion, named-entity extraction, and short summaries.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created in December 2014. Git tags show early releases in 2014 and 2015, with v0.3.0 tagged in March 2016.

### Adoption history

The official README documents pip installation for the Python package and Homebrew installation for users who only want the command-line tool. Beyond that package-manager footprint, the official sources provide little evidence of a larger ecosystem.

### How it is used

Users need a Goo Labs application id before using the library or CLI. The README examples instantiate `GoolabsAPI` with that app id and call API methods for Japanese text processing.

### Why package nerds care

goolabs is package-nerd interesting as a niche CLI wrapper around a hosted language API: the package is mostly useful because it turns API credentials and Japanese NLP endpoints into installable command-line plumbing.

### Timeline

- 2014: GitHub repository created under tell-k/goolabs.
- 2014: v0.1.1 tag points to a version and history update commit.
- 2015: v0.1.2 and v0.2.0 tags published in July.
- 2016: v0.3.0 tag published in March.

### Related projects

- The README relates goolabs to Goo Labs APIs for Japanese morphological analysis, similarity, hiragana conversion, entity extraction, and short summaries.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/tell-k/goolabs>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/tell-k/goolabs/tags>
- <https://github.com/tell-k/goolabs>
- <https://github.com/tell-k/goolabs#readme>


## Security Notes

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



## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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