# CraftBeer.com Scraper - Beer Styles, Articles & Recipes (`lulzasaur/craftbeer-scraper`) Actor

Scrape 80+ beer style guides with ABV/IBU/SRM ranges, food pairings, and glassware from CraftBeer.com. Search 3700+ articles and 260+ recipes from the Brewers Association.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lulzasaur/craftbeer-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [lulz bot](https://apify.com/lulzasaur) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 results

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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```bash

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# README

## CraftBeer.com Scraper

Scrape beer style guides, articles, and recipes from [CraftBeer.com](https://www.craftbeer.com) — the Brewers Association's official craft beer resource.

### What data can you extract?

#### Beer Styles (80+ style guides)
- Style name and description
- ABV (Alcohol by Volume) range
- IBU (International Bitterness Units) range
- SRM (Standard Reference Method) color range
- Food pairings and glassware recommendations
- Serving temperature
- Appearance details (color, clarity, carbonation)
- Flavor/aroma profile (hop, malt, esters, phenols)
- Commercial examples
- Style categories and parent types

#### Articles (3,700+ posts)
- Article title and full content
- Author name
- Publication date
- Categories (Full Pour, Beer & Food, Beer Release, etc.)
- Featured image

#### Recipes (260+ beer & food recipes)
- Recipe title and description
- Author
- Publication date
- Featured image

### Input parameters

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|-----------|------|---------|-------------|
| `searchQueries` | string[] | `[]` | Keywords to search (e.g. "IPA", "stout"). Empty = all items. |
| `maxListings` | integer | `100` | Maximum items per query (1-500) |
| `contentType` | enum | `styles` | `styles`, `articles`, `recipes`, or `all` |
| `scrapeDetails` | boolean | `false` | Get full style data (ABV/IBU/SRM/food pairings/tasting notes) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | — | Proxy settings |

### Example inputs

#### Get all beer styles with full details
```json
{
    "contentType": "styles",
    "scrapeDetails": true,
    "maxListings": 100
}
````

#### Search for IPA-related articles

```json
{
    "searchQueries": ["IPA"],
    "contentType": "articles",
    "maxListings": 50
}
```

#### Search for stout and porter styles

```json
{
    "searchQueries": ["stout", "porter"],
    "contentType": "styles",
    "scrapeDetails": true,
    "maxListings": 20
}
```

#### Get everything about a topic

```json
{
    "searchQueries": ["Belgian"],
    "contentType": "all",
    "scrapeDetails": true,
    "maxListings": 50
}
```

### Output example

#### Beer style (with details)

```json
{
    "title": "American India Pale Ale",
    "type": "style",
    "description": "Characterized by floral, fruity, citrus-like, piney or resinous American-variety hop character...",
    "abvRange": "6.3-7.5% ABV",
    "ibuRange": "50-70 IBU",
    "colorRange": "6-12 SRM",
    "foodPairings": "Spicy Tuna Roll, Blue Cheeses, Persimmon Rice Pudding",
    "glassware": "Tulip",
    "servingTemperature": "50-55°F",
    "appearance": {
        "color": "Gold to Copper, Red/Brown",
        "clarity": "Clear to Slight Haze",
        "carbonation": "Medium to Fast Rising Bubbles"
    },
    "flavorAroma": {
        "alcohol": "Mild to Noticeable",
        "hop": "Hop aroma is high and hop flavor is strong...",
        "malt": "Biscuit, Bready, Caramel",
        "esters": "Citrus, Tropical Fruit, Pine",
        "phenols": "Not common to style"
    },
    "commercialExamples": "Stone IPA - Stone Brewing Co.; Two Hearted Ale - Bell's Brewery; Bodhizafa IPA - Georgetown Brewing Co.",
    "categories": "india pale ales",
    "styleType": "ale",
    "imageUrl": "https://cdn.craftbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/...",
    "url": "https://www.craftbeer.com/styles/american-india-pale-ale",
    "searchQuery": "IPA",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-25T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

#### Article

```json
{
    "title": "Unpeeling Banana's Appeal in Beer",
    "type": "article",
    "description": "From the yeast-supplied scent of German hefeweizens to pastry stouts evoking a banana-split sundae...",
    "categories": "full pour",
    "author": "Joshua M. Bernstein",
    "publishDate": "2026-04-21",
    "imageUrl": "https://cdn.craftbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/...",
    "url": "https://www.craftbeer.com/full-pour/unpeeling-bananas-appeal-in-beer",
    "searchQuery": "banana",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-25T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### How it works

1. **WP REST API** — CraftBeer.com runs on WordPress with a fully accessible REST API. The scraper fetches beer styles, articles, and recipes via JSON endpoints for fast, reliable data extraction.
2. **CheerioCrawler** — When `scrapeDetails` is enabled for beer styles, the scraper visits individual style pages to extract ABV/IBU/SRM ranges, food pairings, glassware, appearance, and flavor profiles from the HTML.
3. **Search** — The WordPress search API filters content by keyword. Leave `searchQueries` empty to get all items.

### Data sources on CraftBeer.com

- **80 beer styles** — Complete style guides from the Brewers Association
- **3,700+ articles** — Beer news, brewery features, tasting guides, and more
- **260+ recipes** — Beer and food pairing recipes
- **22 indie brewery profiles** — Featured independent breweries

### Cost

This scraper uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay $0.005 per result scraped.

### Tips

- Set `scrapeDetails: true` for styles to get the full ABV/IBU/SRM data, food pairings, and tasting notes
- For articles, the WP REST API includes full content even without `scrapeDetails` — enabling it just provides slightly cleaner text
- Use multiple search queries to find specific styles (e.g., `["IPA", "stout", "lager"]`)
- The scraper handles pagination automatically for large result sets

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Beer styles, topics, or keywords to search (e.g. "IPA", "stout", "food pairing"). Leave empty to scrape all beer styles.

## `maxListings` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of items to scrape per search query (1-500).

## `contentType` (type: `string`):

Type of content to scrape: beer styles, articles, recipes, or all.

## `scrapeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

For styles: scrape detail pages for ABV/IBU/SRM ranges, food pairings, glassware, and tasting notes. For articles: get full article content. Slower but more data.

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

Optional proxy configuration for requests.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "IPA"
  ],
  "maxListings": 100,
  "contentType": "styles",
  "scrapeDetails": false
}
```

# 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 = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "IPA"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lulzasaur/craftbeer-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 = { "searchQueries": ["IPA"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lulzasaur/craftbeer-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 '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "IPA"
  ]
}' |
apify call lulzasaur/craftbeer-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "CraftBeer.com Scraper - Beer Styles, Articles & Recipes",
        "description": "Scrape 80+ beer style guides with ABV/IBU/SRM ranges, food pairings, and glassware from CraftBeer.com. Search 3700+ articles and 260+ recipes from the Brewers Association.",
        "version": "1.0",
        "x-build-id": "z8epuID2mUZz9s2WD"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/lulzasaur~craftbeer-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-lulzasaur-craftbeer-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/lulzasaur~craftbeer-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-lulzasaur-craftbeer-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
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                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
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                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
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                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/lulzasaur~craftbeer-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-lulzasaur-craftbeer-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"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "searchQueries": {
                        "title": "Search Queries",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Beer styles, topics, or keywords to search (e.g. \"IPA\", \"stout\", \"food pairing\"). Leave empty to scrape all beer styles.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "maxListings": {
                        "title": "Max Listings",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 500,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of items to scrape per search query (1-500).",
                        "default": 100
                    },
                    "contentType": {
                        "title": "Content Type",
                        "enum": [
                            "styles",
                            "articles",
                            "recipes",
                            "all"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Type of content to scrape: beer styles, articles, recipes, or all.",
                        "default": "styles"
                    },
                    "scrapeDetails": {
                        "title": "Scrape Full Details",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "For styles: scrape detail pages for ABV/IBU/SRM ranges, food pairings, glassware, and tasting notes. For articles: get full article content. Slower but more data.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy Configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Optional proxy configuration for requests."
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "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": {
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                                    }
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                            },
                            "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
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
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                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
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                                        "example": 0
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
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                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "example": 0
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
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                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```