#  Installation

Please follow the steps for your operating system.

#  macOS

The recommended way to install mitmproxy on macOS is to use Homebrew:

brew install mitmproxy

Alternatively, you can download standalone binaries on mitmproxy.org.

#  Linux

The recommended way to install mitmproxy on Linux is to download the standalone binaries on mitmproxy.org.

Some Linux distributions provide community-supported mitmproxy packages through their native package repositories (e.g., Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Kali Linux, OpenSUSE, etc.). We are not involved in the maintenance of downstream packaging efforts, and they often lag behind the current mitmproxy release. Please contact the repository maintainers directly for issues with native packages.

#  Windows

To install mitmproxy on Windows, download the installer from mitmproxy.org. We also provide standalone binaries, they take significantly longer to start as some files need to be extracted to temporary directories first. After installation, mitmproxy, mitmdump and mitmweb are also added to your PATH and can be invoked from the command line.

We highly recommend to install Windows Terminal to improve the rendering of the console interface.

All the mitmproxy tools are also supported under WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). After installing WSL, follow the mitmproxy installation instructions for Linux.

#  Advanced Installation

#  Development Setup

If you would like to install mitmproxy directly from source code or the GitHub main branch, please see the our CONTRIBUTING.md on GitHub.

#  Installation from the Python Package Index (PyPI)

If your mitmproxy addons require the installation of additional Python packages, you can install mitmproxy from PyPI.

While there are plenty of options around¹, we recommend the installation using pipx:

1. Install a recent version of Python (we require at least 3.10).
2. Install pipx.
3. pipx install mitmproxy

To install additional Python packages, run pipx inject mitmproxy <your-package-name>.

#  Docker Images

You can use the official mitmproxy images from DockerHub.

#  Security Considerations for Binary Packages

Our pre-compiled binary packages and Docker images include a self-contained Python 3 environment, a recent version of OpenSSL, and other dependencies that would otherwise be cumbersome to compile and install.

Dependencies in the binary packages are frozen on release, and can’t be updated in situ. This means that we necessarily capture any bugs or security issues that may be present. We don’t generally release new binary packages simply to update dependencies (though we may do so if we become aware of a really serious issue). If you use our binary packages, please make sure you update regularly to ensure that everything remains current.

As a general principle, mitmproxy does not “phone home” and consequently will not do any update checks.