beeradvocate

A BeerAdvocate.com scraper of debatable quality. Written in Ruby.

gem install beeradvocate

The beeradvocate gem implements several useful functions for scraping beer information from the Beer Advocate website.

BeerAdvocate.get_url(beer_name), given the name of a beer or something like it, will return the first Beer Advocate beer search result.

BeerAdvocate.get_beer_details_from_url(url), given a Beer Advocate beer page URL (as returned from .get_url), will return a hash of beer attributes name, score, style, abv, and brewery.

The beer command-line tool combines these two features. Given the name of a beer on the command line, beer will return a JSON-formatted hash of beer details:

$ beer cambridge porter
{
  "name": "Charles River Porter",
  "score": "88",
  "style": "American Porter",
  "abv": "5.90%",
  "brewery": "Cambridge Brewing Company"
}

Very probable.

Pete Gamache wrote this in haste in July 2015.

This project is not developed or endorsed by Beer Advocate.

This code is released into the public domain.