Homebrew Formulae

Homebrew Formulae is an online package browser for Homebrew.

It displays all packages in the Homebrew/homebrew-core and Homebrew/homebrew-cask. A GitHub Action is run periodically which pulls changes from each tap and deploys the site to GitHub Pages.

JSON API

It also provides a JSON API for all packages (or individual packages) in each tap and their related analytics. This JSON data is used for the creation of the HTML resources on this site.

Currently available:

• List metadata for all formulae and casks
• Get metadata for each formula and cask
• List analytics events for all formulae and casks
• List analytics events for each formula and cask

Read more in the JSON API documentation.

Usage

Open https://formulae.brew.sh/ in your web browser.

To instead run the site locally, run:

git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/formulae.brew.sh
cd formulae.brew.sh
script/prepare-local-preview.rb
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve

This downloads the generated data from the public API, so it does not require local tap checkouts or Homebrew repository write access.

Search

Search is indexed by Algolia crawler at https://crawler.algolia.com/admin/crawlers/26b9e6e2-bce4-4f42-9930-6b6ddf06cc9e/overview. This is only accessible by brew organisation members.

License

Code is under the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License.