nmap
brew install nmapPort scanning utility for large networks
License: LicenseRef-Homebrew-cannot-represent
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/nmap.json
Formula code: nmap.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 7.993 |
| head | ⚡️ | HEAD |
Depends on:
| liblinear | 2.50 | Library for large linear classification |
| libssh2 | 1.11.1 | C library implementing the SSH2 protocol |
| lua | 5.5.1 | Powerful, lightweight programming language |
| openssl@4 | 4.1.0 | Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit |
| pcre2 | 10.49 | Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API |
| python@3.15 | 3.15.2 | Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language |
Depends on when building from source:
| python-setuptools | 84.2.1 | Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages |
Uses from macOS: bison (build), flex (build), libpcap
Conflicts with: cern-ndiff (because both install `ndiff` binaries), ndiff (because both install `ndiff` binaries)
Binaries:
ncat,
ndiff,
nmap,
nping
GitHub Packages downloads:
| Last 30 days | 277,807 |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 6,060,611 |
| Analytics install events (30 days) | 47,967 |
| Downloads / install events (30 days) | 5.8× |
Source: GitHub Packages, fetched 2026-11-11T00:50:13Z. Analytics dates: 2026-10-12 to 2026-11-11. Totals exclude downloads from Bintray before the migration to GitHub Packages. Downloads and install attempts measure different things; the difference does not count analytics opt-outs. Definitions and limitations.
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 47,869 | 83,303 | 266,172 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 98 | 178 | 549 |
| Installs on Request | 47,341 | 82,366 | 262,718 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 98 | 178 | 549 |
| Build Errors | 674 | ||
Build Errors (--HEAD) | 16 |