# Open Brewery DB Scraper (`devilscrapes/open-brewery-db-scraper`) Actor

Query the Open Brewery DB public API by city, state, country, postal code, brewery type, name, or lat/lng radius and get clean, typed brewery, cidery, and brewpub rows. No manual paging, no six-param juggling, no empty-vs-exhausted guesswork.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/open-brewery-db-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [DevilScrapes](https://apify.com/devilscrapes) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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## Open Brewery DB Scraper

**$2.20 / 1 000 results**  ·  pay only for results  ·  no credit card to try

*We do the dirty work so your dataset stays clean.* 😈

Turn the Open Brewery DB public API into one clean, queryable dataset. Pick a city, state, country, brewery type, name, postal code, or lat/lng radius — and get back typed rows with location and contact fields for every matching brewery, cidery, and brewpub. No manual paging, no six-param juggling, no guesswork about whether a search came up empty or the Actor broke.

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### 🎯 What this scrapes

Open Brewery DB is a free, keyless, no-auth JSON API listing breweries, cideries, and brewpubs. It is genuinely useful — but its raw shape is not friendly to a one-off integration: results cap at 200 rows per page, there are six separate `by_*` filter params spread across list and search endpoints, and telling "this filter matched nothing" apart from "the page paging just ended early" requires a second call to a `meta` endpoint most integrators never discover.

This Actor collapses all of that into one input form. Pick a search mode — city, state, country, brewery type, name, postal code, or lat/lng distance — and it pages the API on your behalf, validates every record against a typed schema, and hands you back a clean dataset. It also tells the difference, in plain language, between "your filter matched zero breweries" and "the source ran out before your max results cap" — two very different outcomes that look identical if you only watch a row count.

### 🔥 What we handle for you

- 🔁 **Automatic pagination** — Open Brewery DB caps every request at 200 rows. We page through to your `maxResults` limit or until the source is exhausted, and merge the results transparently.
- 🧱 **Rate-limit-aware backoff** — on `408`/`429`/`503` responses we back off exponentially and honour `Retry-After` headers, retrying up to 5 times before surfacing an error.
- 🧊 **Pydantic-validated rows** — every record is typed at write time. A single malformed record is skipped and logged, never crashes the run.
- ✅ **Honest empty results** — a search mode that genuinely matches nothing finishes successfully with a status message naming the exact filter or query that came up empty — it is never confused with a broken run.
- 🌐 **Proxy-ready** — an optional Apify Proxy pass-through is available if your network needs it; the public API itself needs no authentication or rotation.
- 💰 **Pay-Per-Event pricing** — you pay only for records that land in your dataset, plus a small run warm-up fee.

### 💡 Use cases

- **Hospitality lead-gen lists** — pull every brewery, cidery, or brewpub in a city or state and load contact details straight into your outreach pipeline.
- **Beverage distributor territory mapping** — filter by state, city, or postal code to plan sales coverage and route planning.
- **POS / CRM vendor onboarding** — populate a venue database for a beverage-industry product without hand-rolling API paging.
- **Craft-beer travel and tourism apps** — build a location-searchable brewery directory using the lat/lng radius search mode.
- **Market research** — count and map brewery density by state, country, or brewery type (micro, brewpub, regional, etc.).

### ⚙️ How to use it

1. Click **Try for free** — no credit card required.
2. Pick a **Search mode**: `city`, `state`, `country`, `type`, `postal`, `name`, `dist`, or `all`.
3. Fill in the matching field for that mode — e.g. `byCity` for `city` mode, or both `byDistLat`/`byDistLng` for `dist` mode.
4. Set **Max results** — the row cap across all pages.
5. Click **Start**. Results stream into the dataset in real time.
6. Export from **Storage → Dataset** as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

### 📥 Input

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Notes |
|---|---|:--:|---|---|
| `searchMode` | `string` | yes | `all` | `city` / `state` / `country` / `type` / `postal` / `name` / `dist` / `all` |
| `byCity` | `string` | iff `searchMode=city` | — | City name |
| `byState` | `string` | iff `searchMode=state` | — | State or province name |
| `byCountry` | `string` | iff `searchMode=country` | — | Country name |
| `byPostal` | `string` | iff `searchMode=postal` | — | Postal / ZIP code |
| `byType` | `string` | iff `searchMode=type` | — | `micro` / `nano` / `regional` / `brewpub` / `large` / `planning` / `bar` / `contract` / `proprietor` / `closed` |
| `searchQuery` | `string` | iff `searchMode=name` | — | Free-text brewery name search |
| `byDistLat` | `number` | iff `searchMode=dist` | — | Latitude, -90..90 |
| `byDistLng` | `number` | iff `searchMode=dist` | — | Longitude, -180..180 |
| `maxResults` | `integer` | no | `500` | Row cap across all pages, 1-10 000 |
| `proxyConfiguration` | `object` | no | `{"useApifyProxy": false}` | Optional Apify Proxy pass-through |

```json
{
  "searchMode": "city",
  "byCity": "San Diego",
  "maxResults": 500,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

### 📤 Output

One row per brewery, cidery, or brewpub record.

```json
{
  "id": "5128df48-79fc-4f0f-8b52-d06be54d0cec",
  "name": "(405) Brewing Co",
  "brewery_type": "micro",
  "address_1": "1716 Topeka St",
  "address_2": null,
  "address_3": null,
  "city": "Norman",
  "state_province": "Oklahoma",
  "postal_code": "73069-8224",
  "country": "United States",
  "longitude": -97.46818222,
  "latitude": 35.25738891,
  "phone": "4058160490",
  "website_url": "http://www.405brewing.com",
  "state": "Oklahoma",
  "street": "1716 Topeka St"
}
```

### 💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — pay only for what lands in your dataset.

| Event | Price | Trigger |
|---|---|---|
| Actor start | $0.20 | Once per run |
| Result | $0.002 | Per brewery record written |

At 1,000 results: `$0.20 + 1000 × $0.002 = $2.20`.

### 🚧 Limitations

- Covers only what Open Brewery DB itself covers — it does not include venues the source doesn't track, and it carries no beer/menu/tap-list data, only venue records.
- Only the current record per `id` — no historical/versioned data.
- Free-text `byCountry`/`byState` values are passed through unmodified; a near-miss spelling can genuinely return zero rows (the status message will name exactly what was searched).

### ❓ FAQ

**Does this need an API key?**
No — Open Brewery DB is a free, keyless public API, and this Actor is keyless too.

**What happens if my filter matches nothing?**
The run finishes successfully with zero rows and a status message naming the exact filter or query that matched nothing. That is a valid outcome, not a failure.

**Can I search by radius around a coordinate?**
Yes — use `searchMode: "dist"` with `byDistLat`/`byDistLng`. Results come back in the source's distance-sorted order.

**How current is the data?**
Rows reflect Open Brewery DB's live API response at run time; it is a community-maintained open-data project, updated on its own schedule.

### 🙋 Your feedback

Found a brewery-type edge case or a field that doesn't map cleanly? Open an issue on the Actor's Apify Store page or reach out via [DevilScrapes on Apify](https://apify.com/DevilScrapes) — we read every report.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchMode` (type: `string`):

Which filter drives the query. Each mode (other than <code>all</code>) needs its matching field below filled in.

## `byCity` (type: `string`):

City name. Required when <code>searchMode</code> is <code>city</code>.

## `byState` (type: `string`):

State or province name, e.g. <code>California</code>. Required when <code>searchMode</code> is <code>state</code>.

## `byCountry` (type: `string`):

Country name, e.g. <code>United States</code>. Required when <code>searchMode</code> is <code>country</code>.

## `byPostal` (type: `string`):

Postal / ZIP code. Required when <code>searchMode</code> is <code>postal</code>.

## `byType` (type: `string`):

Brewery type filter. Required when <code>searchMode</code> is <code>type</code>.

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Free-text search against brewery names. Required when <code>searchMode</code> is <code>name</code>.

## `byDistLat` (type: `number`):

Latitude, -90..90. Required together with <code>byDistLng</code> when <code>searchMode</code> is <code>dist</code>.

## `byDistLng` (type: `number`):

Longitude, -180..180. Required together with <code>byDistLat</code> when <code>searchMode</code> is <code>dist</code>.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of brewery rows to return across all pages.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy settings. Open Brewery DB is a public, keyless API with no anti-bot layer observed; direct routing is fine for most runs. A supplied proxy is honoured for routing only.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchMode": "city",
  "byCity": "San Diego",
  "maxResults": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `datasetItems` (type: `string`):

Full set of scraped brewery records — one item per venue. Streamed JSON via the Apify dataset API.

## `datasetItemsCsv` (type: `string`):

Same data, CSV export. Drop straight into a spreadsheet or CRM loader.

## `datasetView` (type: `string`):

Open the run's dataset in the Console with the Overview view applied.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchMode": "city",
    "byCity": "San Diego",
    "maxResults": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("devilscrapes/open-brewery-db-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchMode": "city",
    "byCity": "San Diego",
    "maxResults": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("devilscrapes/open-brewery-db-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchMode": "city",
  "byCity": "San Diego",
  "maxResults": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call devilscrapes/open-brewery-db-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,devilscrapes/open-brewery-db-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/FMbqIao5TMDvPyaOb/builds/E4lpV3Nl6P8r3wTaU/openapi.json