Wine-Searcher Region Scraper

How It Works

The Wine-Searcher Region Scraper runs on the Apify platform and systematically crawls Wine-Searcher.com’s regional hierarchy, the most complete geographic classification of wines available online, covering virtually every wine-producing country, region, and appellation in the world.

You provide one or more Wine-Searcher region URLs as starting points. The scraper discovers all sub-regions linked from that page, follows them recursively, and extracts wine ranking data from each level. Pagination is handled automatically, so even appellations with hundreds of listed wines are fully captured, with no configuration on your end.

This recursive approach means you can start with a single country URL and end up with a complete hierarchical database of every ranked wine across all its regions and appellations, all in one run.

Use Cases

• Wine database companies building or maintaining complete regional wine catalogs, using the recursive crawl to populate geographic hierarchies from country level down to individual appellations with complete ranking data.

• Market research analysts studying regional wine trends by extracting ranking and pricing data across all appellations within a macro-region (e.g., all of Burgundy or the Rhone Valley), then analyzing score distributions, price tiers, and grape variety prevalence.

• Wine fund managers identifying emerging appellations by comparing average critic scores and price levels across regions, spotting areas where quality-to-price ratios suggest undervaluation relative to neighboring appellations.

• Travel and hospitality companies creating data-driven wine tourism guides by mapping appellation-level data (top-ranked wines, dominant grape varieties, average price points) to geographic regions for interactive destination planning tools.

Input & Output

Example Input:

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.wine-searcher.com/regions-burgundy"
  ],
  "maxDepth": 3,
  "maxItems": 500,
  "outputFormat": "json"
}

Example Output (single record):

{
  "rank": 1,
  "wineName": "Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Romanee-Conti Grand Cru",
  "vintage": "N.V.",
  "region": "Burgundy",
  "subRegion": "Cote de Nuits",
  "appellation": "Romanee-Conti",
  "country": "France",
  "criticScore": 98,
  "averagePrice": 22450.00,
  "currency": "USD",
  "merchantCount": 142,
  "grapeVarieties": ["Pinot Noir"],
  "popularity": "Top 0.1% worldwide",
  "regionUrl": "https://www.wine-searcher.com/regions-romanee+conti",
  "wineUrl": "https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/drc+romanee+conti"
}

Data Fields