libxmlb

Install command:
brew install libxmlb

Library for querying compressed XML metadata

https://github.com/hughsie/libxmlb

License: LGPL-2.1-or-later

Development: Pull requests

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

Formula code: libxmlb.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
tahoe
sequoia
sonoma
macOS on
Intel
sonoma
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable 0.3.26
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

glib 2.88.0 Core application library for C
xz 5.8.3 General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio
zstd 1.5.7 Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm

Depends on when building from source:

gi-docgen 2026.1 Documentation tool for GObject-based libraries
gobject-introspection 1.86.0 Generate introspection data for GObject libraries
meson 1.11.1 Fast and user friendly build system
ninja 1.13.2 Small build system for use with gyp or CMake
pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
python@3.14 3.14.4 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
vala 0.56.19 Compiler for the GObject type system

Analytics:

Installs (30 days)
libxmlb 1,613
libxmlb --HEAD 3
Installs on Request (30 days)
libxmlb 93
libxmlb --HEAD 3
Build Errors (30 days)
libxmlb 1
Installs (90 days)
libxmlb 4,222
libxmlb --HEAD 6
Installs on Request (90 days)
libxmlb 276
libxmlb --HEAD 6
Installs (365 days)
libxmlb 14,153
libxmlb --HEAD 28
Installs on Request (365 days)
libxmlb 1,043
libxmlb --HEAD 28