# Installer ain avec Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de ain pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:ain
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ain
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install ain
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: www/ain/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#ain
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ai/ain/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:ain
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.6.0
- **Résumé source:** HTTP API client for the terminal
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/jonaslu/ain>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/jonaslu/ain>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-26T13:19:49+02:00
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- ain (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.6.0
## Historique du projet et usages

Ain is a terminal HTTP API client that uses template files to assemble requests and then delegates the actual call to curl, wget, or httpie. The README describes it as an alternative to Postman, Paw, or Insomnia for users who prefer files, folders, scripts, and pipes.

### Historique du projet

The public GitHub repository was created in October 2020. The project is written in Go and centers on a small `.ain` template format with sections such as Host, Query, Headers, Method, Body, Config, Backend, and BackendOptions.

Ain's design goal is explicit in the README: enable scripting of input and further processing of output through terminal pipes. Rather than building its own HTTP stack as the user-facing primitive, it makes curl, wget, or httpie the backend and focuses on request organization.

### Historique d'adoption

Official installation instructions cover `go install`, Homebrew, Scoop, AUR binary packages, and manual downloads from GitHub releases. The input package facts also list Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix packages.

Homebrew listed version 1.6.0 as stable and reported 107 installs over 365 days when checked, suggesting a small but packaged Unix-tool audience.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users write one or more `.ain` template files, pass them to `ain`, optionally provide variables, and receive output from the selected backend. Templates can be layered across files and directories, making it useful for API collections that still behave like shell files.

Ain has no separate credentials store in the official README. Secrets are normally represented through template variables, environment variables, `.env`-style workflows, scripts, or headers inside user-controlled `.ain` files.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Ain is a classic package-manager-friendly CLI: a single Go executable, no service account, no desktop app, and a plain-text file format. Its appeal is to users who want API-client ergonomics without leaving the shell or losing composability with find, fzf, pipes, curl, wget, and httpie.

### Chronologie

- 2020: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2020s: README documents Go, Homebrew, Scoop, AUR, and binary-release installation paths.
- 2026: Homebrew lists 1.6.0 as stable in checked metadata.

### Related projects

- curl, wget, and httpie, used as request backends.
- Postman, Paw, and Insomnia, named by the README as GUI/API-client alternatives.
- Shell tools such as find, fzf, and environment-variable based workflows.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/ain.json>
- <https://github.com/jonaslu/ain>


## Notes de sécurité

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Risque Geiger:** blue / moyen
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: *.ain
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - ain: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ai/ain/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - ain: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: www/ain/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/ain.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/ain.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph