# Install urlscan with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, winget

View/select the URLs in an email message or file. Version 1.0.9 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-06. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install urlscan.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:urlscan
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install urlscan
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install urlscan
```

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

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add urlscan
```

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

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install urlscan
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: urlscan from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install urlscan
```

  Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: urlscan from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#urlscan
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S urlscan
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install urlscan
```

  Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: urlscan from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id Urlscan.urlscan-cli -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: Urlscan.urlscan-cli from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:urlscan
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.0.9
- **Source summary:** View/select the URLs in an email message or file
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-06T21:15:35Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- urlscan (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.0.9
## Project history and usage

urlscan is a terminal URL selector for email messages and text files, especially for users of mutt and similar terminal mail readers. Its README describes it as a replacement for urlview, with added parsing, context display, configurable keybindings, and command execution.

### Project history

The project credits Daniel Burrows as the original author, Maxime Chatelle as Debian maintainer, and Scott Hansen as author and maintainer. The public GitHub repository was created in 2011 and continues the classic terminal-mail workflow of piping a message into a curses-style selector and opening or copying selected URLs.

### Adoption history

The input package-manager matrix shows urlscan packaged across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora/dnf, Arch/pacman, openSUSE/zypper, MacPorts, Nix, Alpine/apk, and Windows winget. That breadth fits its role as a small but durable utility for terminal email users.

### How it is used

The documented mutt integration binds a macro that pipes the current message to urlscan. Once open, users can search incrementally, queue multiple URLs, choose webbrowser or xdg-open handling, copy URLs to the clipboard, or pass the selected URL to another command.

### Why package nerds care

urlscan matters in the package-nerd niche because it is a tiny workflow tool that distributions can ship once and many terminal users can compose with mutt, neomutt, shell pipes, xdg-open, and clipboard utilities.

### Timeline

- 2011-09-27: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2010s: README credits Daniel Burrows' original work and positions urlscan as a urlview replacement.
- 2026-06-05: GitHub release metadata records version 1.0.9.

### Related projects

- The README explicitly compares urlscan with urlview and lists Python urwid as a runtime requirement.

### Sources

- GitHub repository metadata: https://api.github.com/repos/firecat53/urlscan
- Input source_facts.package-manager lists cross-distribution packaging.
- Official README: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/firecat53/urlscan/main/README.md
- Official manpage source: https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan/blob/main/urlscan.1


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.config/urlscan/config.json
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - urlscan - 1.0.3-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: urlscan from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Extract and browse the URLs contained in an email (urlview replacement) | https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan
- Nix - urlscan: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ur/urlscan/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - urlscan - 0.9.9-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: urlscan from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Extract and browse the URLs contained in an email (urlview replacement) | https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan
- apk - urlscan - 1.0.7-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: urlscan from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Mutt and terminal url selector (similar to urlview) | https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan
- apk - urlscan-doc - 1.0.7-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: urlscan-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Mutt and terminal url selector (similar to urlview) (documentation) | https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan
- apk - urlscan-pyc - 1.0.7-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: urlscan-pyc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Precompiled Python bytecode for urlscan | https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan
- dnf - urlscan - 1.0.9-2.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: urlscan from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Extract and browse the URLs contained in an email (urlview replacement) | https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan
- pacman - urlscan - 1.0.9-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: urlscan from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Mutt and terminal url selector | https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan
- zypper - urlscan - 1.0.9-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: urlscan from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | An other URL extractor/viewer | https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan
- MacPorts - urlscan: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: mail/urlscan/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - Urlscan.urlscan-cli: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: Urlscan.urlscan-cli from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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