# Install terraform-graph-beautifier with Homebrew

CLI to beautify terraform graph output. Version 0.3.4 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:terraform-graph-beautifier
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install terraform-graph-beautifier
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:terraform-graph-beautifier
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/terraform-graph-beautifier>
- **Version:** 0.3.4
- **Source summary:** CLI to beautify terraform graph output
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/pcasteran/terraform-graph-beautifier>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/pcasteran/terraform-graph-beautifier>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/pcasteran/terraform-graph-beautifier#readme>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/pcasteran/terraform-graph-beautifier/archive/refs/tags/v0.3.4.tar.gz>
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- terraform-graph-beautifier (cli)
- terraform-graph-beautifier (alias)

## Build dependencies

- go

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 0.3.4
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/pcasteran/terraform-graph-beautifier
- Upstream latest detected: v0.3.4 (current)
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Project history and usage

terraform-graph-beautifier is a niche Terraform visualization CLI that transforms the raw Graphviz DOT output from `terraform graph` into more readable HTML, Cytoscape JSON, or cleaned Graphviz output.

### Project history

The pcasteran/terraform-graph-beautifier repository was created on GitHub in April 2020. The README frames the project as a command-line tool for converting the barely usable output of `terraform graph` into something more meaningful and explanatory.

### Adoption history

The project has a narrow adoption profile: the input package facts list Homebrew as its package-manager surface, while the official README documents release binaries, `go install`, and GitHub Container Registry images for Linux and Darwin. That pattern fits a specialist Terraform debugging tool rather than a general-purpose Terraform companion.

### How it is used

The documented workflow pipes `terraform graph` into `terraform-graph-beautifier` and redirects the result to an HTML file. Internally, the tool parses Terraform's DOT script, removes Terraform-generated noise, normalizes node names, and emits Cytoscape HTML, Cytoscape JSON, or Graphviz output.

### Why package nerds care

Its package-nerd significance is as a small example of Terraform's Unix-pipeline culture: Terraform emits DOT, this CLI filters and enriches it, and the user can then view the result in a browser or feed it to Graphviz tooling. It is most useful to operators inspecting module dependency graphs rather than to every Terraform user.

### Timeline

- 2020: GitHub repository created.
- 2020: v0.1.1 and v0.2.0 releases published.
- 2022: v0.3.0 beta series published.
- 2024: v0.3.4 listed as the latest GitHub release during research.

### Related projects

- The README directly depends on Terraform's `terraform graph` command, Graphviz DOT, and Cytoscape.js as the browser rendering target for the default HTML output.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/pcasteran/terraform-graph-beautifier>
- <https://github.com/pcasteran/terraform-graph-beautifier#readme>
- <https://github.com/pcasteran/terraform-graph-beautifier/releases>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** terraform-graph-beautifier
- **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


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## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
