gamache / beeradvocate

An unofficial, slapdash Ruby Gem for scraping beer information from BeerAdvocate.com.

beeradvocate

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

Installation

gem install beeradvocate

Overview

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"
}

Bugs

Very probable.

Authorship and License

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.