macOS
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Install ipget with Homebrew, Nix
Retrieve files over IPFS and save them locally. Version 0.13.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-26. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#ipget.
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Linux
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#ipgetnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ip/ipget/package.nix · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
Retrieve files over IPFS and save them locally
Project links
Commands and aliases
- ipget
history
Project history and usage
ipget is an IPFS command-line downloader: the project describes it as `wget for IPFS`, focused on retrieving files and directory structures from the IPFS network and saving them locally.
Project history
The GitHub repository was created in 2015 under the IPFS organization. Its README frames the tool as a standalone downloader with its own IPFS node, so users do not need a separate IPFS daemon just to fetch content.
A 2016 1.0.0 roadmap shows the early project goals clearly: reliable retrieval, better first-time user experience, binary distribution, and availability through major package managers.
Adoption history
ipget's adoption niche is narrower than the core IPFS daemon: it serves users who want a simple fetch command for IPFS content rather than a full node-management workflow.
The project ships binaries through IPFS distribution channels and appears in Homebrew and Nix, matching the roadmap's emphasis on package-manager availability.
How it is used
Users pass an IPFS path, CID, or IPNS path and optionally choose an output path. The command can use local, spawned, temporary, or fallback node strategies and can display progress.
The package is useful in scripts that need to fetch content-addressed data without teaching the script how to manage a long-running IPFS daemon.
Why package nerds care
ipget is package-nerdy because it maps the familiar Unix downloader shape onto a content-addressed network. It is smaller in scope than Kubo/go-ipfs, but that is exactly why it fits package-manager culture: install one binary, fetch one thing.
It also documents a common IPFS packaging tension: users want IPFS retrieval as a normal CLI utility, while the underlying protocol normally implies node behavior, peers, and network bootstrapping.
Timeline
- 2015: GitHub repository created under the IPFS organization.
- 2016: 1.0.0 roadmap calls out reliable builds and retrieval, first-time user experience, binary releases, and package-manager distribution.
- 2023: v0.10.0 release published on GitHub.
- 2026: v0.13.1 release published on GitHub.
Related projects
- IPFS provides the protocol and network that ipget retrieves from.
- GNU wget is the user-interface analogy cited by the ipget README.
- Kubo/go-ipfs is the fuller IPFS node implementation that ipget avoids requiring for simple downloads.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
ipget | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.13.1
manager updated2026-07-26
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:ipget |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.13.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/ipfs/ipget/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/ipfs/ipget |
| Last updated | 2026-07-26T04:07:51+02:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
ipget
nix profile install nixpkgs#ipget- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Ipget
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation