🍹 Cocktail Drinks Scraper - Recipes, Ingredients, Glasses

🚀 Pull cocktail recipes with ingredients, mixing instructions in 6 languages, glass type, IBA classification, alcoholic flag, image, and video.

The Cocktail Drinks Scraper pulls full cocktail recipes from TheCocktailDB open dataset. Output includes the drink name and alternate name, category, alcoholic / non-alcoholic flag, glass type, IBA classification, tags, image URL, instructions in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Chinese (Simplified + Traditional), structured ingredients array (up to 15 ingredient + measure pairs), and YouTube video URL.

Eight search modes in one Actor: free-text name search, browse by category, browse by glass, browse by ingredient, alcoholic / non-alcoholic toggle, random drink, popular drink, and direct lookup by ID. Run a single category to pull every Ordinary Drink, or every Cocktail, or pull random drinks for inspiration.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Bartender app builders, recipe apps, hospitality vendors, mixology bloggers, ML datasets, party planners	Bar inventory + recipe apps, mixology blogs, party-planning tools, ingredient-driven recommendation, drink-vocabulary training

📋 What the Cocktail Drinks Scraper - Recipes, Ingredients, Glasses does

Five filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🔍 Name search. Free-text drink search across the dataset.
• 🥃 Filter by category. Ordinary Drink, Cocktail, Shot, Beer, Punch / Party Drink, Coffee / Tea, etc.
• 🥂 Filter by glass. Highball, Old-fashioned, Cocktail, Shot, Wine, etc.
• 🍋 Filter by ingredient. Find every drink using gin, vodka, lime juice, etc.
• 🌍 6 languages. Mixing instructions in EN / ES / DE / FR / IT / ZH-HANS / ZH-HANT.

💡 Why it matters: clean, server-side filtering and fresh data on every run.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: alcoholic, category, cocktaildbUrl, glass, iba, ingredientsText, instructions, name, thumbnail. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Find the Cocktail Drinks Scraper - Recipes, Ingredients, Glasses on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick filters and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start.
5. 📥 Download. Grab results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by TheCocktailDB, its maintainers, the International Bartenders Association, or any individual cocktail author. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.

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