# Installer oauth2l avec Homebrew, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de oauth2l pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:oauth2l
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install oauth2l
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#oauth2l
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/oa/oauth2l/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:oauth2l
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.3.4
- **Résumé source:** Simple CLI for interacting with Google oauth tokens
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/google/oauth2l>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/google/oauth2l>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-27T23:46:49+02:00
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- oauth2l (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.3.4
## Historique du projet et usages

oauth2l, pronounced "oauth tool" in its README, is Google's Go CLI for fetching, printing, inspecting, testing, and using Google OAuth 2.0 access tokens from shell workflows. It is narrower than generic OAuth clients, but deeper in Google-specific authentication paths such as Google Cloud SDK credentials, Google Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine service accounts, service-account JSON keys, domain-wide delegation examples, and cached local tokens.

### Historique du projet

The google/oauth2l repository was created on 2016-03-31, making it one of the older maintained Go CLIs in this batch. Its README frames the project around the practical problem of turning Google OAuth credentials into command-line access tokens that can be passed to tools such as curl.

The project's 2022-07-19 v1.3.0 release was a security-oriented milestone: release notes added the three-legged OAuth loopback flow and PKCE support, replacing the deprecated copy-and-paste out-of-band pattern with a localhost redirect flow managed by oauth2l. Later releases in 2024 and 2025 focused on arm64 packaging, README updates, dependency upgrades, and vulnerability-scanner cleanup.

### Historique d'adoption

The repository metadata recorded 731 stars and 91 forks, which is substantial for a single-provider token utility. The README documents multiple distribution paths: precompiled binaries for Darwin, Linux, and Windows; Homebrew; a Google Container Registry image; source builds with Go; and tagged container images.

Homebrew core packaged oauth2l with version 1.3.3 and the `oauth2l` executable in the 2026-07-01 formula JSON. The same formula recorded 1,500 installs over 365 days, showing broader package-manager use than the smaller Objective-C utilities in this batch.

### Modes d'utilisation

oauth2l's core commands map directly to shell auth workflows: `fetch` prints a bearer token, `header` formats it as an Authorization header, `curl` obtains a token and invokes curl, `info` prints token metadata, `test` validates a token via exit status, and `reset` clears the default `~/.oauth2l` cache.

The README's examples show why it remains useful even in environments with full Google SDKs installed: it can use existing gcloud sessions, explicit credential files, service-account JWTs, domain-wide delegation, and ambient GCE or GKE service-account credentials, then hand the resulting token to ordinary command-line tools.

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

oauth2l is a classic glue package: small enough to install as a standalone executable, official enough to be trusted by Google API users, and practical enough to bridge heavyweight cloud authentication into scripts, tests, and ad hoc API calls.

### Chronologie

- 2016-03-31: the public GitHub repository was created.
- 2022-07-19: v1.3.0 added the three-legged OAuth loopback flow and PKCE support.
- 2025-04-02: v1.3.3 updated dependencies and the Go version to address vulnerability-scanner findings.
- 2026-07-01: Homebrew core formula metadata listed stable version 1.3.3.

### Related projects

- oauth2l pairs naturally with curl, Google Cloud SDK credentials, Google Cloud Console credential files, and Google service accounts. Compared with oauth2c, it trades generic OAuth breadth for Google-specific credential discovery and token workflows.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/google/oauth2l>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/google/oauth2l/releases?per_page=5>
- <https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/oauth2l.json>
- <https://github.com/google/oauth2l>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## 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.


## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.oauth2l
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - oauth2l: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/oa/oauth2l/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/oauth2l.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/oauth2l.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
