Important

✨ ArchiveBox no longer needs to be brew-installed

✅ ArchiveBox still fully supports macOS, don't worry!
📦 Just install it using pip (or pipx) instead now:

mkdir -p ~/archivebox/data
cd ~/archivebox/data     # (for example, can be anywhere)

pip install archivebox   # just use pip to get archivebox
archivebox install       # then finish installing dependencies

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Historical Context

We moved away from brew because pip provides a simpler install experience for most users.
This change also allows us to transition to a new plugin-based architecture where ArchiveBox can add/remove new plugins and their dependencies at runtime.

Now we do something similar to playwright where the base package is provided via pip, and then you call archivebox install to finish installing any system dependencies that are still needed.

ArchiveBox uses our own new pydantic-pkgr library (check it out!) to manage its runtime dependencies, which in turn relies on the excellent pyinfra library (and/or ansible) to do the actual installing.

Prefer doing it the old way?

See here for manual install instructions for all of ArchiveBox's dependencies on macOS:
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Install#macos

Or expand to see old README for this repo (only useful for historical context)

Quickstart

# 🧙‍♀️ ✨ the magic incantation
brew tap archivebox/archivebox
brew install archivebox

# sometimes brew is few minor versions behind latest version, upgrade to latest with pip
pip install --upgrade --ignore-installed archivebox yt-dlp playwright

# make sure you have Chrome/Chromium in /Applications, or install it with playwright
playwright install --with-deps chromium

mkdir -p ~/archivebox/data && cd ~/archivebox/data  # data folder can be anywhere
archivebox init --setup
archivebox version
archivebox add 'https://example.com'
archivebox help

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Install#option-c-bare-metal-setup

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Tested on macOS >= 11. (Linux users should install via apt/deb or pip instead)

Development

Make sure you're in the main ArchiveBox repo folder first.

cd ArchiveBox/
git submodule update --init --recursive
git pull --recurse-submodules

# Install the package locally during testing
brew install --debug --verbose --interactive ./archivebox.rb
brew test-bot --tap=ArchiveBox/homebrew-archivebox archivebox/archivebox/archivebox

# Commit any changes to archivebox.rb, build the bottle and push to github
brew uninstall archivebox
brew untap archivebox/archivebox
# push the latest archivebox.rb to gitub, then install and bottle it from github
brew install --build-bottle archivebox
brew bottle archivebox
git add .
git commit -m "new release ✨"
git push origin main

# or use the script
./bin/build_brew.sh
./bin/release_brew.sh