Brew Extension for Raycast

Search and manage your brew casks and formulae from Raycast.

Commands

• Search — search brew formulae & casks and install them
• Show Installed — list installed formulae & casks, with pinned formulae and pinned casks each in their own section
• Show Upgrades (previously Show Outdated) — review outdated packages, choose which upgrade, and run it. The review opens with everything not pinned selected (exactly what a plain brew upgrade would do), so running immediately upgrades everything. A pin is a lock, matching brew's own behavior: a pinned package cannot be selected, and including one means unpinning it first — the primary action on a pinned row does both in one step. Formulae and casks behave identically. Preview Upgrades (⌘⇧I) runs brew upgrade --dry-run on demand and lists every package with its version transition, download size, running total, and brew's warnings; Preview Upgrade (⌘⌥I) does the same for the one package on the row, and is offered on outdated packages in Show Installed and Search too.
• Upgrade All — upgrade everything outdated in one shot, no review step, with progress reported per package via the toast
• Show Vulnerabilities — list installed formulae with known OSV advisories from brew vulns, with per-advisory detail and an Upgrade action where the formula is also outdated (needs Homebrew 7)
• Run Doctor — show the brew doctor report with every recommended fix, and run them all with one confirmation (Fix All) (needs Homebrew 7)
• Adopt Apps — find apps already in your Applications folder that Homebrew has a cask for, and hand them to Homebrew with brew install --adopt so they upgrade with everything else. Matches are grouped by what vouches for them: Ready to Adopt (the cask's bundle identifier matches, or Homebrew will compare the app itself), Likely Adoptable (name and version agree, nothing else checks), and Unlikely Adoptions; an app Homebrew would refuse to adopt as it stands is listed under Can't Adopt. Anything not ready goes through Preview Adoption (⌘⇧I) first. Ignore a wrong match with ⌘⇧H; the filter above the list shows ignored apps and restores them
• Manage Taps — add, trust and remove third-party taps, and browse the formulae and casks each one provides. On Homebrew 7, packages from a tap that is not trusted ask before Homebrew trusts them, and trusting a whole tap is one action on any of its rows. Pasting user/repo/name into Search installs from a tap you have not added yet
• Manage Services — start, stop & restart Homebrew services
• Services Menu Bar — control Homebrew services from the menu bar
• Clean up — clean files and packages from the cache that are older than 120 days
• Clear Cache — clear the cached formulae, casks, and installed packages files

Homebrew Compatibility

This extension requires Homebrew 6.0 or later.

• Internal API: the faster internal JSON API is the default. The extension's "Use internal API" preference is gone — Homebrew 6 deprecates HOMEBREW_USE_INTERNAL_API, and setting it makes brew abort outright for anyone running with HOMEBREW_DEVELOPER.
• Concurrent Downloads: parallel downloads are on by default. If you hit trouble, turn them off in the extension preferences.
• Removed Flags: --no-quarantine and --quarantine, deprecated in 5.x, are gone in 6.
• Pinning: formulae and casks can both be pinned. A pin is a lock — brew refuses to upgrade or uninstall a pinned package until you unpin it.

For more details, see the Homebrew 6.0 release notes.

Performance

This extension uses several optimizations to provide a fast experience:

• Lazy Loading: Package details are fetched on-demand when viewing, not upfront.

Install Statistics

Selecting a package shows its install counts (30 / 90 / 365 days) and build errors, taken from the formulae.brew.sh analytics API. Only the selected package is fetched — about 5 KB per row you land on, and nothing at all for the rest of the list.

Sort by Popularity (⇧⌘P in Search) is different: ranking every result requires Homebrew's bulk 30-day rankings, about 2.6 MB for formulae and casks combined. That download happens the first time you enable the sort, is cached on disk, and is never fetched if you don't use the sort. While it is on, each row also shows its 30-day install count.

Homebrew's analytics are anonymous and aggregate, and cover macOS installs; a package with no reported installs simply shows no statistics.

Issue Tracker

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