Skitch cask removed

[valentin-nasta]

Output of brew config

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.5.8-87-g4fd7c6f
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 4fd7c6fa8d2caedeefe80481404257607bf76692
Last commit: 2 hours ago
Branch: master
Core tap JSON: 26 Jun 16:17 UTC
Core cask tap JSON: 26 Jun 16:17 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /opt/homebrew
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_EDITOR: vim
HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN: set
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 12
HOMEBREW_SORBET_RUNTIME: set
Homebrew Ruby: 3.4.4 => /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/3.4.4/bin/ruby
CPU: dodeca-core 64-bit arm_blizzard_avalanche
Clang: 17.0.0 build 1700
Git: 2.39.5 => /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/git
Curl: 8.7.1 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 15.5-arm64
CLT: 16.4.0.0.1.1747106510
Xcode: N/A
Rosetta 2: false

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Description of issue

I was wondering why was the skitch cask removed?
Homebrew/homebrew-cask@7a4e802

Relevant casks

skitch

[p-linnane]

disable! date: "2024-06-25", because: :no_longer_available

From what I can tell, Evernote is no longer offering it for download.

[valentin-nasta]

I am not sure about this, the wget request worked:

wget https://cdn1.evernote.com/skitch/mac/release/Skitch-2.9.zip
--2025-06-26 20:03:23--  https://cdn1.evernote.com/skitch/mac/release/Skitch-2.9.zip
Resolving cdn1.evernote.com (cdn1.evernote.com)... 35.190.19.9
Connecting to cdn1.evernote.com (cdn1.evernote.com)|35.190.19.9|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Type: application/zip
  X-GUploader-UploadID: ABgVH8-bLgK7Tu59auKhyVwxabhggVrVZn6lMxeuKCf64nRnQy1hEtVCoYvwzrIe-dKs92O0hBeWndI
  Expires: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:03:23 GMT
  Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:03:23 GMT
  Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600
  Last-Modified: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:20:38 GMT
  ETag: "45fb50fbdbe4cdbee270fb66b73ac57d"
  x-goog-generation: 1698769238767965
  x-goog-metageneration: 1
  x-goog-stored-content-encoding: identity
  x-goog-stored-content-length: 30439603
  x-goog-meta-x-goog-source-etag: "bf7d6057afabbab05e29ef977bd4184c-6"
  x-goog-hash: crc32c=nf6ccw==
  x-goog-hash: md5=RftQ+9vkzb7icPtmtzrFfQ==
  x-goog-storage-class: STANDARD
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
  Content-Length: 30439603
  Server: UploadServer
  Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
  X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
  X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies: none
  Alt-Svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
Length: 30439603 (29M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘Skitch-2.9.zip’

Skitch-2.9.zip              100%[=========================================>]  29.03M  4.36MB/s    in 6.7s

2025-06-26 20:03:30 (4.32 MB/s) - ‘Skitch-2.9.zip’ saved [30439603/30439603]

[p-linnane]

Either way, the app is discontinued so it would have been removed for that reason. You can consider hosting this in your own tap.

[daeho-ro]

Uploaded into the private tap

• https://github.com/DraftBrew/homebrew-tap

but be aware, all the security risk is your own reponsibility.