kevlened / beer-advocate-api

Unofficial library for working with Beer Advocate data.

Beer Advocate API

Unofficial library for working with Beer Advocate data.

Installation

via NPM

$ npm install beer-advocate-api --save-dev

Example

var ba = require('beer-advocate-api');

// Search for a beer
// http://beeradvocate.com/search/?q=Anchor+Steam&qt=beer
ba.beerSearch("Anchor Steam", function(beers) {

    console.log(beers);

});

// Get a specific beer page
// http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29223/84343/
ba.beerPage("/beer/profile/29223/84343/", function(beer) {

    console.log(beer);

});

// Get a specific beer's reviews from top reviewers
// http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29223/84343/?view=beer&sort=topr&start=0
ba.beerTopReviews("/beer/profile/29223/84343/", 1, function(reviews) {

    console.log(reviews);

});

Output

// Search for a beer
[ { beer_name: 'Anchor Steam Beer',
    beer_url: '/beer/profile/28/63/',
    brewery_name: 'Anchor Brewing Company',
    brewery_location: 'San Francisco, California',
    brewery_url: '/beer/profile/28/',
    retired: false },
  { beer_name: 'Drop Anchor Steam Beer',
    beer_url: '/beer/profile/952/9899/',
    brewery_name: 'Great Dane Pub & Brewing Company (Downtown)',
    brewery_location: 'Madison, Wisconsin',
    brewery_url: '/beer/profile/952/',
    retired: true } ]

// Get a specific beer page
[ { beer_name: 'Day Tripper',
    beer_style: 'American Pale Ale (APA)',
    beer_abv: '5.40%',
    brewery_name: 'Indeed Brewing Company',
    brewery_state: 'Minnesota',
    brewery_country: 'United States',
    ba_score: '90',
    ba_rating: 'outstanding',
    bros_score: 'N/A',
    bros_rating: '',
    ratings: '264',
    reviews: '65',
    rAvg: '4.04',
    pDev: '10.4%' } ]
	
// Get a specific beer's reviews from top reviewers
[{
    reviewer: 'Sammy',
    reviewer_url: '/community/members/sammy.3853/',
    rating: '3.95',
    rating_max: '5',
    attributes: {
        look: '4',
        smell: '4',
        taste: '4',
        feel: '3.5',
        overall: '4'
    },
    review_text: 'Very fresh and good can obtained by John. Citrus hop aroma, 
				yet well tamed. Cloudy orange and lacey. A big IBU and yet a 
				very good ornage, tangerine, grapefruit taste and drinkability. 
				A good examle of a pale that used tobe called an IPA(if not a 
				DIPA by some) .Recommended.',
    serving_type: 'can',
    date: '11-28-2012 04:40:39'
}]

License

Beer Advocate API is licensed MIT

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Copyright (c) 2014 Charlie Hield