extract_url

Install command: 
brew install extract_url

Perl script to extracts URLs from emails or plain text

https://www.memoryhole.net/~kyle/extract_url/

License: BSD-2-Clause

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/extract_url.json

Formula code: extract_url.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel		 tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 1.6.2

Revision: 5

Uses from macOS: ncurses, perl

Binaries: extract_url

Known vulnerabilities in the current version:

CVE-2026-8829 (high) HTML::Entities versions before 3.84 for Perl read freed heap memory in _decode_entities

Data from Homebrew/advisory-database. Run brew vulns extract_url for a live check.

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