pdfly
Install command:
brew install pdflyCLI tool to extract (meta)data from PDF and manipulate PDF files
https://pdfly.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
License: BSD-3-Clause
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/pdfly.json
Formula code: pdfly.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 | ✅ | 0.5.1 |
Revision: 26
Depends on:
| certifi | 2026.7.22 | Mozilla CA bundle for Python |
| cryptography | 50.0.2 | Cryptographic recipes and primitives for Python |
| libsodium | 1.0.22 | NaCl networking and cryptography library |
| openssl@3 | 3.6.5 | Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit |
| pillow | 12.3.0 | Friendly PIL fork (Python Imaging Library) |
| pydantic | 2.13.5 | Data validation using Python type hints |
| python@3.14 | 3.14.8 | Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language |
Depends on when building from source:
| pkgconf | 3.0.7 | Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit |
| rust | 1.99.0 | Safe, concurrent, practical language |
Uses from macOS: m4 (build), libxml2, libxslt
Binaries:
pdfly
Known vulnerabilities in the current version:
| GHSA-qv6h-rv94-w285 | pypdf: Possible large memory usage when retrieving Roman page labels |
| GHSA-5jq2-8x83-x246 | pypdf: Possible long runtimes/large memory usage when parsing indirect objects |
| GHSA-fp3h-c4fm-7vvf | pypdf: Possible large memory usage for large /ToUnicode streams (Follow-up 2) |
| GHSA-g9cg-prrw-2r8q | pypdf: Possible large memory usage when parsing font data |
| GHSA-jw7q-gvrg-4vj3 | pypdf: Possible long runtimes for partially malformed FlateDecode streams (Follow-up) |
| GHSA-php9-fj8v-98fj | pypdf: Possible long runtimes when generating appearance streams |
| GHSA-v247-6f48-mgcj | pypdf: Possible long runtimes with large amount of embedded files |
| GHSA-w23x-9jrw-r45c | pypdf: Possible large memory usage when retrieving alphabetical page labels |
| GHSA-8988-9cw3-xx77 | urllib3: HTTPS proxy TLS configuration may be ignored or overridden |
| GHSA-gh4c-6fx4-qh6g | urllib3: Chunked Deflate streaming can enter an infinite loop |
| GHSA-vxq7-64xx-v4gw | urllib3: HTTPResponse.stream()/read_chunked() buffers an unbounded chunk-size line into memory |
Data from Homebrew/advisory-database. Run brew vulns pdfly for a live check.
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 117 | 731 | 5,671 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 0 | 1 | 14 |
| Installs on Request | 117 | 730 | 5,668 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 0 | 1 | 14 |
| Build Errors | 0 |