# Install aliyunpan with Homebrew, Nix, winget

Command-line client tool for Alibaba aDrive disk. Version 0.4.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-29.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:aliyunpan
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install aliyunpan
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#aliyunpan
```

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

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id tickstep.aliyunpan -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: tickstep.aliyunpan from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:aliyunpan
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/aliyunpan>
- **Version:** 0.4.0
- **Source summary:** Command-line client tool for Alibaba aDrive disk
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/tickstep/aliyunpan>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/tickstep/aliyunpan>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/tickstep/aliyunpan>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/tickstep/aliyunpan/archive/refs/tags/v0.4.0.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-29T07:56:33Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- aliyunpan (cli)
- aliyunpan (alias)

## Build dependencies

- go

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 0.4.0
- Package-manager updated: 2026-06-29
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/tickstep/aliyunpan
- Upstream latest detected: v0.4.0 (current)
## Project history and usage

aliyunpan is a third-party Alibaba Cloud Drive command-line client that presents cloud-drive operations through a Linux-shell-like interface.

### Project history

The public repository begins in git history on 2021-08-04. Its README describes a CLI for Alibaba Cloud Drive with JavaScript plugins, sync backup, album batch download, multi-user support, and shell-style file commands.

The project is distributed as release archives and through several package-manager and deployment paths documented by the README, including apt, yum, Homebrew, winget, and Docker sync images.

### Adoption history

The README is written for end users running the tool on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, NAS, embedded devices, and Docker. The input package-manager facts additionally show Homebrew, Nix, and winget packaging.

Its sync mode gives the tool a NAS and backup niche: official docs describe local-to-drive, drive-to-local, and bidirectional backup workflows.

### How it is used

Users can run aliyunpan interactively, log in through a browser authorization flow, list directories, upload and download files, switch drives, and run sync backup. The README documents ALIYUNPAN_CONFIG_DIR for relocating the configuration directory; Docker sync examples mount aliyunpan_config.json as the already logged-in credential/config file.

### Why package nerds care

aliyunpan matters to package nerds as a cloud-storage CLI outside the major Western cloud ecosystems: it has cross-platform release artifacts, package-manager installs, Docker automation, and a config/credential file that users often need to mount or relocate.

### Timeline

- 2021: Public Git history begins.
- 2021: v0.0.1 tag appears in repository history.
- 2026: v0.4.0 tag appears in repository history.

### Related projects

- Alibaba Cloud Drive: cloud storage service targeted by the client.
- tickstep/aliyunpan-sync Docker image: documented sync deployment path.

### Sources

- Git history from https://github.com/tickstep/aliyunpan.git
- Official README: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tickstep/aliyunpan/master/README.md
- Official manual: https://github.com/tickstep/aliyunpan/blob/master/docs/manual.md
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

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

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- 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: $ALIYUNPAN_CONFIG_DIR/aliyunpan_config.json

## Credential files

- Unix: $ALIYUNPAN_CONFIG_DIR/aliyunpan_config.json
## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** aliyunpan
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - aliyunpan: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/al/aliyunpan/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - tickstep.aliyunpan: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: tickstep.aliyunpan from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Related links

- [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [onedrive-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/onedrive-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-storage, file-sync, productivity.
- [grsync](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/grsync/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, file-sync, productivity.
- [syncthing](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/syncthing/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, file-sync, productivity.
- [cloudpan189-go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cloudpan189-go/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-storage, productivity.
- [gdrive](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gdrive/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-storage, productivity.
- [megacmd](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/megacmd/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-storage, productivity.
- [megatools](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/megatools/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-storage, productivity.
- [a2ps](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/a2ps/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, productivity.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/aliyunpan.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/aliyunpan.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
