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🍹 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.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-08 · 📊 20+ fields per record · 11 categories · 5 glass types · ingredients, measures, instructions in 6 languages · search by name, category, glass, ingredient, alcoholic / non-alcoholic, or random

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.

📋 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.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

⚙️ Input

Example: every ordinary drink.

{
"maxItems":100,
"mode":"byCategory",
"query":"Ordinary Drink"
}

Example: non-alcoholic drinks.

{
"maxItems":50,
"mode":"byAlcoholic",
"query":"Non_Alcoholic"
}

📊 Output

Each record contains 20+ fields. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

📦 Sample records

✨ Why choose this Actor

📈 How it compares to alternatives

🚀 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.

💼 Business use cases

🔌 Automating Cocktail Drinks Scraper - Recipes, Ingredients, Glasses

Control the scraper programmatically:

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Open a ready-to-send prompt in the AI of your choice:

• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
• 🔍 Perplexity
• 🅒 Copilot

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🧩 How does it work?

Pick a mode (search, byCategory, byGlass, byIngredient, byAlcoholic, popular, random, or byId) and provide the relevant value. The Actor queries TheCocktailDB and returns each drink.

📊 How many fields per record?

Up to 22, including drink name, category, glass, alcoholic flag, IBA tier, instructions in 6 to 8 languages, and a structured ingredients array.

🌍 How many languages?

Instructions in EN, ES, DE, FR, IT, ZH-HANS, ZH-HANT (when available; not every drink has all translations).

🥬 What does the ingredients array look like?

Up to 15 ingredient + measure pairs (e.g. {ingredient: 'Tequila', measure: '1 1/2 oz'}).

🥂 How many glass types?

20+ in the dataset, covering Highball, Old-fashioned, Cocktail, Shot, Wine, Beer, Coupe, Margarita, etc.

🆓 Do I need an API key?

No. TheCocktailDB is open.

🔁 Can I schedule runs?

Yes. Apify Schedules supports any cron interval.

⚖️ Is this data free?

Yes. TheCocktailDB publishes drinks under Creative Commons.

📺 Are videos always included?

No. YouTube URL is included when the drink has a paired video.

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan?

No. The free plan covers preview runs (10 records).

🔌 Integrate with any app

Cocktail Drinks Scraper - Recipes, Ingredients, Glasses connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications
• Airbyte - Pipe data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits
• Google Drive - Export datasets to Sheets

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🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form to request a new scraper, propose a custom data project, or report an issue.

⚠️ 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.