🍺 Homebrew Formulae and Casks Scraper

🚀 Export the Homebrew package catalog in one run. Pull formulae and casks straight from the official formulae.brew.sh API, with versions, dependencies, bottle URLs, and real install counts.

Turn the Homebrew package index into clean, structured records you can drop into a registry mirror, a dependency dashboard, or an internal package catalog. Pick formulae (command line tools and libraries) or casks (macOS desktop apps), name the exact packages you want, and get one tidy record per package with versions, dependencies, license, homepage, and install analytics.

Coverage is the complete public Homebrew catalog as formulae.brew.sh publishes it. Roughly 7,700 casks and a comparable set of formulae, each with its current stable version, dependency graph, download URLs, and 30, 90, and 365 day install counts. Leave the names list empty to walk the full catalog from the top, or pass exact tokens like wget, node, and git to fetch only what you need.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Platform and DevOps engineers	Mirror or audit the package registry
Security and compliance teams	Track licenses and dependency trees
Data engineers and analysts	Build package popularity dashboards
Tool and IDE developers	Seed a package search index

📋 What the Homebrew Formulae and Casks Scraper does

This Actor calls the public formulae.brew.sh API and returns one clean record per package for the catalog you choose:

• Formulae — name, description, license, homepage, stable and head versions, runtime and build dependencies, conflicts, source URL, bottle download links per platform, and install counts.
• Casks — token, app name, description, homepage, version, installer URL and checksum, bundled app names, cask conflicts, auto update flag, and install counts.

You pick the package type, list the exact tokens you want (or leave it empty to take packages from the top of the catalog), and set how many records come back. Every record carries a scrapedAt timestamp.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: bottles, buildDependencies, conflictsWith, dependencies, deprecated, description, disabled, fullName, hasBottle, headVersion, homepage, installs30d, installs365d, installs90d, kegOnly, license, name, revision, scrapedAt, stableUrl, stableVersion, tap, type. All 23 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account using this sign-up link.
2. Open the Homebrew Formulae and Casks Scraper.
3. Choose a type (formula or cask).
4. Add the package tokens you want under names, or leave it empty to read from the top of the catalog, then set maxItems.
5. Click Start and grab your results when the run finishes.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Homebrew. Only publicly available data is collected.

🆘 Need Help?

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