# Specialty Coffee Roaster Scraper (Shopify + SCA Flavors) (`ichlibitiche/specialty-coffee-roaster-scraper`) Actor

Scrape specialty-coffee products from roaster storefronts: origin, process, roast, price, and tasting notes mapped to the SCA Flavor Wheel — a source URL on every record. Export CSV/JSON/Excel.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ichlibitiche/specialty-coffee-roaster-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ichlibitiche](https://apify.com/ichlibitiche) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools, E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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```bash
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```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
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```bash

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# README

## Specialty Coffee Roaster Scraper 🫘 — Shopify + SCA Flavor Wheel

**Scrape specialty-coffee data** — products, prices, origins, and tasting notes — straight from coffee roasters' Shopify storefronts. Unlike a generic Shopify scraper, this **coffee scraper understands coffee**: it extracts origin, process, roast, varietals, altitude, weight, and price, and normalizes free-text tasting notes into the **SCA (Specialty Coffee Association) Flavor Wheel** — with a **source URL on every record** so any fact is re-verifiable.

Turn hundreds of roaster catalogs into one clean, structured **coffee dataset** you can export to CSV, JSON, or Excel.

### What this coffee scraper does

- 🌍 **Structured coffee data** — origin country/region, altitude, process method, roast level, varietals, weight, and price per product.
- 🎯 **SCA Flavor Wheel mapping** — deterministic 3-tier flavor paths (`Fruity > Berry > Blueberry`), not guessed.
- 🔗 **Provenance on every row** — `source_url` + timestamp to trace and re-verify each coffee.
- 📋 **Curated default list** — run with no input to scrape a bundled set of vetted specialty roasters, or pass your own `roasterUrls`.
- 🤝 **Polite & robots.txt-compliant** — skips disallowed stores, honors crawl delays (on by default).
- 🔎 **Filters** — by origin country, verified tier, or SCA-mapped only.

### Output — one item per coffee

| Field | Description |
| :--- | :--- |
| `source_roaster`, `title` | Roaster brand + coffee name |
| `origin_country`, `origin_region` | Producing origin, where stated |
| `altitude_min_meters`, `altitude_max_meters` | Growing elevation (masl) |
| `process_method` | Washed / Natural / Honey / Anaerobic / Other |
| `roast_level` | Light / Medium / Dark |
| `varietals` | e.g. `Gesha, SL28` |
| `weight_grams`, `price_currency`, `price_value` | Unit weight + sanitized retail price |
| `tasting_notes_sca_nodes` | `; `-separated SCA paths, e.g. `Fruity > Berry > Blueberry` |
| `tasting_notes_confidence` | 0–1 confidence of the flavor mapping |
| `quality_flag` | `good` (verified tier) or `questionable` |
| `source_platform`, `source_url`, `retrieved_at`, `dataset_version` | Full provenance |

Export from the dataset as **CSV, JSON, Excel, or via API**.

### Input

Run with **no input** to scrape the built-in curated roaster list, or configure:

```json
{
  "roasterUrls": ["https://onyxcoffeelab.com", "https://sey.coffee"],
  "maxRoasters": 10,
  "maxPagesPerStore": 5,
  "filterCountry": "Ethiopia",
  "onlyMappedFlavors": false,
  "onlyVerifiedTier": false,
  "respectRobots": true,
  "requestDelaySecs": 0.5
}
````

### How it works

1. For each roaster, fetch the public Shopify product catalog (`/products.json`), respecting `robots.txt`.
2. Detect coffee products and extract structured attributes from tags + descriptions.
3. Normalize tasting notes to the SCA Flavor Wheel and sanitize prices to a plausible band.
4. Push one clean record per coffee to the dataset.

### Use cases

- **Coffee price monitoring** and market/assortment research across roasters, origins, and price bands.
- **Coffee subscription & recommendation apps** (structured product + flavor data).
- **Flavor-based search / discovery** on the SCA graph.
- **ML / RAG corpora** and coffee data APIs.

### FAQ

**Which roasters does it support?** Any roaster on a **Shopify** storefront (the `/products.json` catalog). Pass your own `roasterUrls` or use the bundled curated list.

**Is scraping these storefronts allowed?** The Actor only reads public product catalogs and is **robots.txt-compliant** by default — it skips stores that disallow crawling and honors crawl delays.

**What makes it different from a generic Shopify scraper?** It's coffee-aware: origin/process/roast/varietal parsing **plus** SCA Flavor Wheel normalization and full provenance — data a generic scraper won't give you.

**Why are some fields empty?** Coverage is honest and uneven — not every storefront publishes farm-level data. Use `onlyVerifiedTier` when you need complete rows.

**Can I get the whole thing as a ready-made dataset?** Yes — a curated snapshot of **8,000+ coffees from 280+ roasters** (SQLite + CSV + JSON) and custom recurring feeds are available separately: **[specialty-coffee-roasterdb.pages.dev](https://specialty-coffee-roasterdb.pages.dev/)** · **RoasterDB@proton.me**.

***

*Keywords: coffee scraper, specialty coffee data, Shopify coffee scraper, coffee dataset, coffee price scraper, SCA flavor wheel, coffee tasting notes, roaster data, coffee origin data, coffee API.*

# Actor input Schema

## `roasterUrls` (type: `array`):

Shopify storefront URLs to scrape (e.g. https://onyxcoffeelab.com). Leave empty to use the built-in curated list of specialty roasters.

## `useCuratedSeed` (type: `boolean`):

When no URLs are provided, scrape RoasterDB's bundled list of vetted specialty roasters.

## `maxRoasters` (type: `integer`):

Limit how many roasters to scrape (0 = no limit). Keep small for a quick test run.

## `maxPagesPerStore` (type: `integer`):

Each page returns up to 250 products.

## `filterCountry` (type: `string`):

Only output coffees whose origin country matches (case-insensitive), e.g. Ethiopia. Leave blank for all origins.

## `onlyMappedFlavors` (type: `boolean`):

Drop coffees whose tasting notes could not be mapped to the SCA Flavor Wheel.

## `onlyVerifiedTier` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only records with origin + sanitized price + SCA flavor mapping.

## `respectRobots` (type: `boolean`):

Skip any store that disallows crawling and honor declared crawl delays. Recommended.

## `requestDelaySecs` (type: `number`):

Politeness delay between HTTP requests.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "roasterUrls": [],
  "useCuratedSeed": true,
  "maxRoasters": 10,
  "maxPagesPerStore": 5,
  "onlyMappedFlavors": false,
  "onlyVerifiedTier": false,
  "respectRobots": true,
  "requestDelaySecs": 0.5
}
```

# 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 = {
    "roasterUrls": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ichlibitiche/specialty-coffee-roaster-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 = { "roasterUrls": [] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ichlibitiche/specialty-coffee-roaster-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "roasterUrls": []
}' |
apify call ichlibitiche/specialty-coffee-roaster-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=ichlibitiche/specialty-coffee-roaster-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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        "description": "Scrape specialty-coffee products from roaster storefronts: origin, process, roast, price, and tasting notes mapped to the SCA Flavor Wheel — a source URL on every record. Export CSV/JSON/Excel.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "DmXZpPnBRruhsvCFJ"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
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                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/ichlibitiche~specialty-coffee-roaster-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-ichlibitiche-specialty-coffee-roaster-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
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        "/acts/ichlibitiche~specialty-coffee-roaster-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-ichlibitiche-specialty-coffee-roaster-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
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                "parameters": [
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                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
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                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
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            }
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    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "roasterUrls": {
                        "title": "Roaster storefront URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Shopify storefront URLs to scrape (e.g. https://onyxcoffeelab.com). Leave empty to use the built-in curated list of specialty roasters.",
                        "default": [],
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "useCuratedSeed": {
                        "title": "Use the built-in curated roaster list",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "When no URLs are provided, scrape RoasterDB's bundled list of vetted specialty roasters.",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "maxRoasters": {
                        "title": "Max roasters",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Limit how many roasters to scrape (0 = no limit). Keep small for a quick test run.",
                        "default": 10
                    },
                    "maxPagesPerStore": {
                        "title": "Max product pages per store",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 20,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Each page returns up to 250 products.",
                        "default": 5
                    },
                    "filterCountry": {
                        "title": "Filter by origin country",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Only output coffees whose origin country matches (case-insensitive), e.g. Ethiopia. Leave blank for all origins."
                    },
                    "onlyMappedFlavors": {
                        "title": "Only coffees with an SCA flavor mapping",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Drop coffees whose tasting notes could not be mapped to the SCA Flavor Wheel.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "onlyVerifiedTier": {
                        "title": "Only verified-tier records (quality_flag = good)",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Keep only records with origin + sanitized price + SCA flavor mapping.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "respectRobots": {
                        "title": "Respect robots.txt",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Skip any store that disallows crawling and honor declared crawl delays. Recommended.",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "requestDelaySecs": {
                        "title": "Delay between requests (seconds)",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "maximum": 10,
                        "type": "number",
                        "description": "Politeness delay between HTTP requests.",
                        "default": 0.5
                    }
                }
            },
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                "properties": {
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                            "userId": {
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                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
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                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
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                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
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                                    "DATASET_READS": {
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                                        "example": 0
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "example": 0
                                    }
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                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
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                                        "example": 0
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                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
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                                        "example": 0
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            }
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    }
}
```