Installation

Digestive ships as a single self-contained binary. Install a prebuilt release with Homebrew or the install script, or build from source. Then run init to scaffold your configuration.

Install a prebuilt binary

Homebrew (macOS):

brew install social-sync/tap/digestive

Install script (macOS / Linux):

curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/social-sync/digestive/main/install.sh | sh

The script detects your OS and architecture, downloads the matching release asset, verifies its SHA-256 checksum, and installs digestive to /usr/local/bin (falling back to ~/.local/bin). Set DIGESTIVE_BIN_DIR to choose the target directory, or DIGESTIVE_VERSION=v1.2.3 to pin a version.

Manual: grab an archive for your platform from the releases page, extract it, and put the digestive binary on your PATH.

Once installed, skip ahead to Getting started.

Build from source

Prefer building yourself? Read on.

Prerequisites

• Go 1.26 or newer (the module targets Go 1.26). Check with go version.
• Network access to your source database (SingleStore, or any MySQL-wire-compatible database).

No C toolchain is required — the build is pure Go (CGO_ENABLED=0), so it produces one self-contained binary with no runtime dependencies.

Clone and build

git clone https://github.com/social-sync/digestive.git
cd digestive

# Build the single static binary into ./digestive
make build

make build runs CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -o digestive .. If you prefer, run that directly, or install it onto your PATH:

go install github.com/social-sync/digestive@latest

Verify it works:

./digestive --help