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🍹 Cocktail & Drink Recipe Intelligence — Structured Drink Recipes for Bar & Menu Apps

Get clean, structured cocktail recipes — ingredients with measures, mixing instructions, glassware, alcoholic/non-alcoholic flag, photo and IBA tags — for hundreds of drinks, with no scraping and no API key. Search by name, ingredient, category, glass type or alcoholic content, or pull random drinks for "surprise me" features. Every cocktail comes back as one tidy row, ready for a bar app, menu builder or mocktail catalog. Export to JSON/CSV/Excel, run on a schedule, call via API, or connect to Make, Zapier or n8n.

🥂 What is the Cocktail & Drink Recipe Intelligence?

It turns a public drinks database (TheCocktailDB) into a structured dataset you can build products on. Tell it how to search — by drink name, ingredient, category, glass, alcoholic type, or random — and it returns full recipes with a parsed ingredients array (each ingredient paired with its measure), so mixology sites, hospitality tools and AI bartending assistants get ready-to-use data instead of messy HTML. No paid subscription, no key, no parsing — and IBA official cocktails are included.

What data does it extract?

• Drink name and stable drink id
• Category (Cocktail, Ordinary Drink, Shot…) and alcoholic flag (Alcoholic / Non alcoholic / Optional alcohol)
• glass type (e.g. Cocktail glass, Highball glass)
• Mixing instructions in English plus translations (instructions_de, instructions_es, instructions_fr, instructions_it)
• Structured ingredients — each item paired with its measure (e.g. Tequila / 1 1/2 oz)
• ingredients_list (names only) and an ingredients_count
• Drink photo (image thumbnail URL), tags (e.g. IBA, ContemporaryClassic) and the iba classification
• video_url when available, an is_creative_commons flag and an extracted_at timestamp

⬇️ Input

Pick a search mode and optional filters, then run — no key or login required:

Example input

{
"searchType":"ingredient",
"searchQuery":"gin",
"alcoholicFilter":"Alcoholic",
"maxResults":50
}

⬆️ Output

Every drink is one clean row (view as a table, or export JSON / CSV / Excel):

{
"id":"11007",
"name":"Margarita",
"category":"Ordinary Drink",
"iba":"Contemporary Classics",
"alcoholic":"Alcoholic",
"glass":"Cocktail glass",
"instructions":"Rub the rim of the glass with the lime slice to make the salt stick to it...",
"instructions_de":"Reiben Sie den Rand des Glases mit der Limettenscheibe ab...",
"instructions_es":"Frote el borde del vaso con la rodaja de lima...",
"instructions_fr":"Frottez le bord du verre avec la tranche de citron vert...",
"instructions_it":"Strofina il bordo del bicchiere con la fetta di lime...",
"image":"https://www.thecocktaildb.com/images/media/drink/5noda61589575158.jpg",
"tags":["IBA","ContemporaryClassic"],
"video_url":null,
"ingredients":[
{"ingredient":"Tequila","measure":"1 1/2 oz"},
{"ingredient":"Triple sec","measure":"1/2 oz"},
{"ingredient":"Lime juice","measure":"1 oz"}
],
"ingredients_count":4,
"ingredients_list":["Tequila","Triple sec","Lime juice","Salt"],
"is_creative_commons":true,
"extracted_at":"2026-06-26T15:30:00"
}

💡 Use cases

• 🍸 Bar & drink apps: populate your catalog with structured cocktail recipes, glassware and photos in minutes.
• 📋 Menu & hospitality tools: build cocktail menus and guides for venues, filtered by spirit or occasion.
• 🧉 Mocktail & event planning: generate non-alcoholic drink lists with alcoholicFilter: "Non_Alcoholic" for events and dry bars.
• 🤖 AI bartending assistants: ground LLM answers in real recipes with exact measures instead of guesswork.

❓ FAQ

How do I search for cocktails? Choose a searchType (name, ingredient, category, glass, alcoholic or random) and a searchQuery or filter, then run. You get full recipes with ingredients, measures, instructions and photos.

Are ingredients structured or just plain text? Structured. Each ingredient is returned as an object paired with its measure, plus a flat ingredients_list and an ingredients_count for easy parsing and shopping lists.

Do I need an API key? No. There is no key, login or token — just pick a search mode and run.

Can I find non-alcoholic drinks (mocktails)? Yes. Set alcoholicFilter: "Non_Alcoholic", or use searchType: "alcoholic" to filter by alcoholic content directly.

Can I search by spirit or glass type? Yes. Use searchType: "ingredient" with a spirit like gin or vodka, or searchType: "glass" to find drinks served in a specific glass.

Are IBA official cocktails included? Yes. Many drinks carry an iba classification and IBA tags, so you can surface official cocktails.

Are instructions available in other languages? Yes. Recipes include German, Spanish, French and Italian instruction fields alongside English.

How many drinks can it return? Up to your maxResults cap (1–200). Random search returns up to 10 drinks per run for discovery.

Can I run it on a schedule or via API? Yes. Schedule recurring runs in Apify, call it via the API/SDK, or connect it to Make, Zapier or n8n to keep your drink catalog updated.

Is it legal? It retrieves drink data from a publicly available recipe database. Use it responsibly and respect source attribution where required.

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