# Install btp with Homebrew Cask

CLI for the SAP Business Technology Platform. Version 2.106.1 via Homebrew Cask; verified 2026-06-15. Also installable with winget: winget install --id SAP.btp -e.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install cask:btp
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew Cask (100%):

```sh
brew install --cask btp
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew cask metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** cask:btp
- **Package manager:** Homebrew Cask
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/btp>
- **Version:** 2.106.1
- **Source summary:** CLI for the SAP Business Technology Platform
- **Homepage:** <https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#cloud-cpcli>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#cloud-cpcli>
- **Source archive:** <https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/additional/btp-cli-darwin-arm64-2.106.1.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-15T16:00:27+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-07-25T07:20:51+00:00

## Executables

- btp (binary)
- btp (alias)

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Caveats: Installing btp means you have AGREED to the license at: https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/developer-license-3_2.txt
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-25
- Package-manager version: 2.106.1
- Package-manager updated: 2026-06-15
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#cloud-cpcli
- info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Project history and usage

SAP BTP CLI is SAP's command-line client for administering accounts, subaccounts, entitlements, services, and related resources on SAP Business Technology Platform. In package-manager terms it is a vendor-distributed operational CLI, closer to cloud account tooling than to an open-source developer utility.

### Project history

The CLI belongs to SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP's cloud platform umbrella for application development, integration, data, analytics, and AI services. SAP publishes the command reference and task documentation through SAP Help Portal, while macOS packages are distributed from SAP Development Tools rather than from a public source repository.

The current Homebrew cask tracks SAP's downloadable btp binary archive from tools.hana.ondemand.com. The absence of a public official source repository is itself part of the package history: consumers package the vendor binary, not a build from source.

### Adoption history

Adoption follows SAP BTP administration workflows: the CLI is documented as the command-line interface for account administration and day-to-day BTP work. Its Homebrew cask exists to make the vendor tool fit common macOS package-management workflows.

Because BTP is an enterprise platform, public adoption signals are less visible than for open-source CLIs; reliable evidence is SAP's official documentation and the package's presence as a Homebrew cask.

### How it is used

The btp executable is used for scripted and interactive SAP BTP administration: logging in, selecting global accounts or subaccounts, inspecting available commands, and automating account-management tasks described in SAP's BTP CLI guides.

The tool stores local configuration in platform-specific application data paths documented by SAP; credentials are not separately documented in the supplied curation, so no credentials path is asserted.

### Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, btp is a classic vendor-binary cask: source is not public, updates follow SAP's archive naming and versioning, and trust is anchored in SAP's download host and Help Portal rather than in reproducible source builds.

### Timeline

- 2020s: SAP Business Technology Platform becomes the umbrella platform for SAP cloud development and administration workflows.
- 2020s: SAP documents btp as the command-line interface for SAP BTP account administration.
- 2026: Homebrew cask metadata tracks SAP BTP CLI 2.106.1 from tools.hana.ondemand.com.

### Related projects

- SAP Business Technology Platform is the managed cloud platform administered by the CLI.
- SAP Development Tools is the vendor download surface used for the packaged macOS archives.
- Homebrew Cask packages the vendor-supplied binary for macOS users.

### Sources

- <https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/btp-cli-command-reference/btp-cli-command-reference>
- <https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/account-administration-using-sap-btp-command-line-interface-btp-cli>
- <https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/how-to-work-with-btp-cli>
- <https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/specify-location-of-configuration-file>
- <https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/>
- source_facts.source-archive
- source_facts.version


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for btp. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## 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

- Linux: ~/.config/.btp/config.json
- macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/.btp/config.json
- Windows: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\SAP\btp\config.json
## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew cask API
- **Tap:** homebrew/cask
- **Full Token:** btp
- **Names:** SAP Business Technology Platform Command Line Interface
- **Artifacts:** Binary: 1, Generate Completions From Executable: 1, Target: 1
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no

## Other Package-Manager Records

- winget - SAP.btp: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: SAP.btp from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Related links

- [Homebrew Cask packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/homebrew-cask-packages/) - Generated from Homebrew Cask package-manager metadata.
- [Homebrew Cask binaries](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/homebrew-cask-binaries/) - Cask artifact metadata includes a binary.

## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- 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
