Barnivore Vegan Alcohol Scraper

Scrape Barnivore, the free, community-maintained directory of vegan-friendly beer, wine, cider and liquor. Find out which drinks are vegan, which brewery/winery/distillery makes them, and get direct company contact info — all without an account or API key.

What You Get

For every product: name, brand/company (brewery, winery, or distillery), category (beer/wine/cider/liquor), vegan-friendliness status, company address/country, website, phone, email, community verification notes (who last verified the status and roughly when), and a direct link to the product page.

Modes

Mode	Description
search	Free-text search across all categories by product or brand name (e.g. "guinness", "heineken", "jack daniel"). Barnivore's search matches exact substrings and does not stem plurals, so "jack daniel" finds results but "jack daniels" does not.
byCategory	Browse an entire category — Beer, Wine, Cider, or Liquor — optionally narrowed to one country.
byCountry	Browse every product made by companies in a given country, across all categories (or one category if specified).

Input

• mode — search, byCategory, or byCountry.
• searchQuery — free-text product/brand name (mode=search).
• category — beer, wine, cider, or liquor. Required for byCategory; optional filter for search/byCountry.
• country — company country, e.g. United States, Germany, Belgium. Required for byCountry; optional filter for search.
• veganStatus — filter to only vegan, not_vegan, or unknown products.
• fetchDetails — visit each product's detail page for full company contact info and verification notes (default true). Turn off for a faster, lighter run.
• maxItems — maximum number of records to return (1-200, default 20).

Sample Output

{
  "productId": "34727",
  "name": "Guinness",
  "company": "Guinness",
  "category": "beer",
  "veganStatus": "vegan",
  "companyAddress": "Ireland",
  "companyWebsite": "https://www.guinness.com/en",
  "companyEmail": "info@guinness.com",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.barnivore.com/beer/26/guinness",
  "verificationNotes": "Update (October 2025) re: Rockshore ...",
  "verifiedBy": "Jeroen",
  "verifiedAt": "About 6 years ago",
  "productUrl": "https://www.barnivore.com/products/34727-guinness",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.barnivore.com/search?q=guinness",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-01T12:00:00+00:00",
  "recordType": "product"
}

FAQs

Do I need an account, cookies, or API key? No. Barnivore is a fully public directory — this actor uses no login, no cookies, and no paid proxy.

What does "vegan status" mean? Barnivore tracks whether a beer/wine/cider/liquor is made without animal-derived ingredients or processing aids (e.g. gelatin, isinglass, casein, honey). Status is one of vegan, not_vegan, or unknown (not yet confirmed by the community).

Can I get numeric ratings like RateBeer or BeerAdvocate? No — Barnivore does not publish star ratings or review counts. It focuses purely on vegan-friendliness verification. RateBeer's domain is no longer registered and BeerAdvocate actively blocks automated access, so this actor surfaces the closest freely-accessible, reliable alternative: real vegan-certification data for the same beer/wine/spirits universe.

Does this work for every country? Yes — Barnivore lists products from over 80 countries and territories. Use the country filter with the company's country name (e.g. England, Brasil, Czech Republic — Barnivore uses its own spelling conventions per entry).

Are companyWebsite links always live? companyWebsite is a third-party contact link maintained by the Barnivore community, not a URL this actor generates. Every productUrl (the Barnivore page itself) is guaranteed reachable, but a small brewery/winery's own website can occasionally go offline over time — the same real-world link decay you'd see in any directory of small producers.

Where does companyEmail come from? Barnivore publishes each company's contact email on the product detail page (Cloudflare-obfuscated to deter scraper spam bots; this actor decodes it using Cloudflare's own published encoding scheme). Present whenever the company has a contact email on file.

Is a phone number included? companyPhone is the producer's contact phone number as listed on the Barnivore detail page, in whatever local format the community entered it (e.g. (512) 593-1262, 0191 447 6543). It's included whenever the company has a phone number on file.

What do verifiedBy / verifiedAt mean? Barnivore's vegan status for each product is manually checked by a community volunteer. verifiedBy is that volunteer's username; verifiedAt is Barnivore's own relative-time label (e.g. "About 6 years ago") — Barnivore does not expose an absolute verification date.