/homebrew/formulae

POST /api/homebrew/formulae

Price: 1 credit

Get Homebrew formula details by name, alias, old name or formula URL

How to use it

Get full details of a Homebrew formula (CLI package) by name (e.g. 'wget', 'openssl@3'), alias, old name, or a formulae.brew.sh formula URL. Returns name, tap, aliases, description, license, homepage, stable version, source URL, dependencies (build/test/recommended/optional/from-macos), requirements (macOS/Xcode), background service definition, conflicts, keg-only status, caveats, executables, deprecation/disabled status, and 30/90/365-day install counts.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• formula string required — Formula name, alias, old name or Homebrew formula URL (examples: "wget", "openssl@3", "https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/node"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "HomebrewFormula")
• name string required
• full_name string (default: "")
• tap string (default: "")
• aliases array (default: [])
• oldnames array (default: [])
• versioned_formulae array (default: [])
• description string nullable
• license string nullable
• homepage string nullable
• version string nullable
• head_version string nullable
• is_bottled boolean (default: false)
• revision integer (default: 0)
• stable_url string nullable
• dependencies array (default: [])
• build_dependencies array (default: [])
• test_dependencies array (default: [])
• uses_from_macos array (default: [])
• requirements array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "HomebrewFormulaRequirement")
  • name string required
  • version string nullable
  • contexts array (default: [])
  • specs array (default: [])
  • cask string nullable
• service object nullable
  • @type string (default: "HomebrewFormulaService")
  • run array (default: [])
  • run_type string nullable
  • keep_alive object nullable
  • working_dir string nullable
  • log_path string nullable
  • error_log_path string nullable
  • environment_variables object (default: {})
    • * string
• conflicts_with array (default: [])
• keg_only boolean (default: false)
• keg_only_reason string nullable
• caveats string nullable
• executables array (default: [])
• is_deprecated boolean (default: false)
• deprecation_date string nullable
• deprecation_reason string nullable
• deprecation_replacement string nullable
• is_disabled boolean (default: false)
• disable_date string nullable
• disable_reason string nullable
• disable_replacement string nullable
• install_count_30d integer (default: 0)
• install_count_90d integer (default: 0)
• install_count_365d integer (default: 0)
• source_path string nullable
• generated_date string nullable
• web_url string (default: "")

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — Formula not found Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.