Easy Homebrew

It is an Alfred workflow for you to easy brew on Alfred -- Search, get details and run Homebrew commands.

Requirements

• Required: Python3, Alfred PowerPack
• Homebrew required to view and run commands, searching for casks and formulae information does not rely on homebrew.

Usage

List and quick install/uninstall

• Simply type brew to show and search for all formulae and casks
  • By default, casks will be listed first, you can add 'cask' or 'formula' to your query (before or after) to further filter results (for example brew vim formula or brew formula vim will filter out casks results and only list formula.
  • Select any casks/formula, directly install by command + enter.
  • In the dropdown list at the end, there will be an "outdated" list, where you can enter to update. There will be an "installed" list, where you can quickly uninstall by command + enter(clean uninstall) or option + enter
  • Quicklook information page on brew.sh by pressing command + Y on selected entries.

Reveal details and run commands

• Continue to type the full name or tab-complete the selected items (if enabled in Alfred) to show details of information (Analytics, install status and newest versions, urls ...) and commands, commands include install, uninstall, upgrade, show info ... Commands will depend on install status.

• Alternatively, in the dropdown list, select any items and press enter to see more details and applicable commands.

  • Press enter on urls will open them in the browser, on commands will run them in terminal.
  • Quicklook urls are supported for all urls.

Other lists: installed, outdated, leaves

• View lists of homebrew leaves, installed formulae and casks, and outdated ones by typing keywords leaves, list and outdated.
  • I also added the default search_keyword brew to show installed and outdated lists, so that you can see whether a package is installed, or outdated.
  • In the outdated list, you can update one-by-one or all-at-once with a simple enter.
  • In leaves and list, directly uninstall by command + enter(clean uninstall) or option + enter
  • In leaves and list, tab-complete to view info and enter to view/run commands as you do with default brew search.
  • In leaves, quicklook is also available.

PS: In the scripts, every function returns results based on brewtype (either cask or formula), you can modify keywords and function arguments to make this workflow to the best your needs.

Thanks

• Icon from Bukeicon, Freepik on flaticon.com
• Alfred forum