# Install webify with Homebrew

Wrapper for shell commands as web services. Version 1.5.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:webify
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install webify
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:webify
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.5.0
- **Source summary:** Wrapper for shell commands as web services
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/beefsack/webify>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/beefsack/webify>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- webify (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.5.0
## Project history and usage

webify is a deliberately tiny command-line CGI-style server that exposes one local command or script as an HTTP service. Its public history is short, but the repository and README clearly document the package's purpose and operating model.

### Project history

The `beefsack/webify` repository was created on August 25, 2020, and published a burst of ten GitHub releases from v1.0.0 through v1.5.0 during August 2020. The project is MIT-licensed and describes itself as a way to turn shell commands into web services.

The README's design goal is zero configuration: webify forwards every request to a single script, writes the request body to standard input, returns standard output as the HTTP response body, and maps a non-zero process exit to HTTP 500.

### Adoption history

The project appears to have remained a compact utility rather than a large ecosystem. By July 2026 the GitHub API showed under one thousand stars and a few dozen forks, enough to indicate developer interest but not enough public record for a deep adoption narrative.

### How it is used

The canonical example is wrapping `wc -c` so an HTTP POST body is counted by a shell command. That pattern generalizes to small internal services, demos, glue scripts, and throwaway automation where a process-oriented interface is simpler than writing a web framework handler.

### Why package nerds care

webify is interesting as a minimal Unix-to-HTTP adapter: it treats stdin, stdout, and exit status as the application protocol. For package collectors, it is a neat example of the small-tools tradition applied to local web services.

### Timeline

- 2020-08-25: Public GitHub repository `beefsack/webify` created.
- 2020-08-25: v1.0.0 and early 1.x releases published.
- 2020-08-29: v1.5.0 published as the latest listed GitHub release.

### Related projects

- webify is conceptually related to CGI, inetd-style command dispatch, shell scripts behind reverse proxies, and lightweight webhook command runners.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/beefsack/webify>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/beefsack/webify/releases>
- <https://github.com/beefsack/webify>


## Security Notes

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Geiger risk:** yellow / medium
- generalized runtime or code generation signal


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/webify.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/webify.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation