# Install muffet with Homebrew, Nix

Fast website link checker in Go. Version 2.11.5 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-09. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#muffet.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:muffet
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install muffet
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#muffet
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:muffet
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.11.5
- **Source summary:** Fast website link checker in Go
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/raviqqe/muffet>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/raviqqe/muffet>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-09T11:21:02Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- muffet (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.11.5
## Project history and usage

Muffet is a website link checker written in Go by raviqqe. The GitHub repository was created in 2018, and the project site describes it as a fast link checker for static websites that recursively scrapes and inspects pages.

### Project history

Its technical emphasis is speed and CI-friendly output. The documentation lists support for browser-like link discovery across tags such as `a`, `img`, `link`, and `script`, along with text, JSON, and JUnit XML output. That places Muffet in the same operational niche as broken-link checkers used by documentation sites, static-site projects, and release pipelines: run it against a base URL, fail or inspect output when broken references appear, and integrate the result into GitHub Actions, Docker, or other automation.

### How it is used

For package managers, Muffet is a compact developer-tool package: one executable, MIT licensed, installable through Go or Homebrew, useful when a site needs link validation without a larger crawler framework.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/raviqqe/muffet>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/muffet>
- <https://github.com/raviqqe/muffet>
- <https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/raviqqe/muffet>
- <https://raviqqe.com/muffet/>


## 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 - muffet: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mu/muffet/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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