# Install urlfinder with Homebrew, Nix

Extracting URLs and subdomains from JS files on a website. Version 2026.6.16 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#urlfinder.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:urlfinder
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install urlfinder
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#urlfinder
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:urlfinder
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2026.6.16
- **Source summary:** Extracting URLs and subdomains from JS files on a website
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/pingc0y/URLFinder>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/pingc0y/URLFinder>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-25T21:47:59+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- urlfinder (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2026.6.16
## Project history and usage

URLFinder is a Go command-line reconnaissance utility for extracting JavaScript files, URLs, API-like paths, and sensitive information from web pages. Its official README presents it as a fast and easy page-information extraction tool aimed at finding hidden sensitive information or unauthorized API interfaces in page JavaScript and URLs.

### Project history

The public GitHub repository was created in June 2022 and the README changelog shows active development beginning later that year with crawl modes, export formats, proxy support, status-code filtering, fuzzing, and YAML-based rule configuration. By 2026 the project had added GitHub Actions and GoReleaser-based release automation, alongside validation for regular expressions and runtime parameters.

### Adoption history

The package-manager evidence in this batch lists Homebrew and Nix packaging, which suggests niche but real package-manager availability rather than broad distribution packaging. Its use case aligns with web reconnaissance and bug-bounty workflows more than general-purpose URL browsing.

### How it is used

Typical use is to point URLFinder at one target URL or a batch file, choose a crawl mode, optionally supply cookies, proxy settings, custom headers, or a YAML config file, and export discovered links and findings as CSV, JSON, or HTML.

### Why package nerds care

For package nerds, URLFinder is a compact example of modern security-tool packaging: a single Go binary, CLI flags, generated config, and cross-platform release automation added after the project was already useful.

### Timeline

- 2022-06-06: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2022-09-05: README changelog records early config-file support.
- 2023: README changelog records export, crawl-depth, and detection refinements.
- 2026-06-17: README changelog records CI, GoReleaser, validation, and security-oriented fixes.

### Related projects

- The repository topics include jsfinder, infofinder, and urlfinder, placing the project in the JavaScript URL discovery and web reconnaissance tool niche.

### Sources

- GitHub repository metadata: https://api.github.com/repos/pingc0y/URLFinder
- Input source_facts.package-manager lists brew and nix packaging.
- Official README: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pingc0y/URLFinder/master/README.md


## 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 - urlfinder: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ur/urlfinder/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/urlfinder.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/urlfinder.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