# Install monolith with Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget

CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file. Version 2.10.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#monolith.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:monolith
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install monolith
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install monolith
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: www/monolith/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add monolith
```

  Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: monolith from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#monolith
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mo/monolith/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S monolith
```

  Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: monolith from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/monolith
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/monolith.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id Y2Z.Monolith -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: Y2Z.Monolith from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:monolith
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.10.1
- **Source summary:** CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- monolith (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.10.1
## Project history and usage

Monolith is a Rust CLI and library for saving a web page as a single self-contained HTML document. The project README presents it as an alternative to the browser "Save page as" workflow: instead of writing an HTML file plus a directory of assets, Monolith embeds CSS, images, and JavaScript into one HTML5 file for storage or sharing.

### Project history

The tool appeared in developer and archiving circles by 2019, including a Show HN discussion where users compared it with MHTML, PDF archiving, and browser-extension approaches such as SingleFile. That discussion captures its practical tradeoff: it favors a static, portable HTML artifact that can be searched, copied, and archived, while browser-driven tools may be better for pages that require extensive JavaScript execution before capture.

### How it is used

Monolith's ecosystem role stayed small and focused. It is distributed through Rust's crates.io ecosystem and package managers such as Homebrew, and it was important enough to be compiled into WebAssembly for the separate Monolith of Web Chrome extension. Users reach for it in scripts, personal archival workflows, data-hoarding setups, or reproducible captures where one file is easier to manage than a browser-generated folder tree.

### Sources

- <https://crates.io/crates/monolith>
- <https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith>
- <https://github.com/rhysd/monolith-of-web>
- <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20774322>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - monolith: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mo/monolith/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - monolith - 2.10.1-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: monolith from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file | https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
- pacman - monolith - 2.10.1-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: monolith from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | CLI to save web pages as single HTML files | https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
- MacPorts - monolith: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: www/monolith/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - main/monolith: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/monolith.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - Y2Z.Monolith: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: Y2Z.Monolith from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph