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Install slacknimate with Homebrew

Text animation for Slack messages. Version 1.1.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-09-13.

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Additional install commands

macOS

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brew install slacknimate

local Homebrew formula metadata

overview

Package summary

Text animation for Slack messages

Commands and aliases

  • slacknimate

history

Project history and usage

slacknimate is a command-line tool and Go package for animating or continuously updating Slack messages from streamed text.

Project history

The project was created to provide real-time text animation for Slack messages, with ChatOps as its primary use case. Its interface accepts streamed text and repeatedly updates a Slack message.

Adoption history

The official README documents distribution as downloadable binaries and through Homebrew. It describes process monitoring as a principal operational example, while also noting comedic and artistic uses.

How it is used

Typical uses include animated text loops, live process-status displays, and terminal previews. Authentication is supplied through a command-line token option or the SLACK_TOKEN environment variable; no credentials file is officially documented.

Why package nerds care

slacknimate is a deliberately narrow ChatOps utility that turns a stream of frames into updates to one Slack message, avoiding a channel full of periodic status messages. It is also usable as a Go package.

Timeline

  • 2016: The official usage example shows slacknimate driving real-time process-monitoring updates.
  • The project became available through downloadable binaries and Homebrew.

Related projects

  • Slack API
  • ChatOps
  • Go

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 post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 12 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

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

CommandKindExposureNote
slacknimatecliglobal executable

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 generated2026-09-19
manager version1.1.0
manager updated2026-09-13
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv1.1.0

https://github.com/mroth/slacknimate

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:slacknimate
Version1.1.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/slacknimate
Homepagehttps://github.com/mroth/slacknimate
Repositoryhttps://github.com/mroth/slacknimate
LicenseMPL-2.0
Source archivehttps://github.com/mroth/slacknimate/archive/refs/tags/v1.1.0.tar.gz
Last updated2026-09-13T02:25:56Z
Pulseupdated
Build dependenciesgo
Bottleavailable (on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameslacknimate
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

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  • notifyShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, productivity, slack.
  • go-hass-agentShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, productivity.
  • slackcatShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, productivity, slack.
  • tmuxShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, productivity.
  • vimShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, productivity.

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.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment
  • pkg.so package database
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