Saketime Japanese Sake Brand & Review Scraper

Scrape sake brand rankings, star ratings, and consumer review text from Saketime — Japan's largest sake community site (the "Untappd for sake"). Returns brand name, brewery, prefecture, ranking position, average star rating, review count, brand description, and one featured consumer review per brand.

Use Cases

• Sentiment analysis: Harvest review text and star ratings for NLP/ML pipelines targeting Japanese sake
• E-commerce enrichment: Augment product catalogs with community ratings and review counts
• Market research: Track sake brand popularity and ranking trends
• Content creation: Curate descriptions and community opinions for sake recommendation tools
• Data analytics: Combine with brewery/flavor data from Sakenowa for full sake catalog coverage

What You Get

Each record contains:

Field	Description
brand_id	Unique numeric Saketime brand ID
brand_name	Japanese sake brand name
brewery_name	Brewery (sake producer) name
prefecture	Japanese prefecture where the brewery is located
rank	Ranking position on Saketime (null if unranked)
avg_star_rating	Average community star rating (0.0–5.0)
review_count	Total number of reviews on Saketime
review_user	Username of the featured reviewer
review_text	Featured review text (excerpt, Japanese)
review_date	Date of the featured review (JP format)
description	Brand editorial summary
detail_url	Full URL to the brand page on Saketime

Input

Parameter	Required	Description
maxItems	Yes	Maximum number of brands to scrape (default: 10)

Sample Output

{
  "brand_id": "241",
  "brand_name": "十四代",
  "brewery_name": "高木酒造",
  "prefecture": "山形",
  "rank": 1,
  "avg_star_rating": 4.62,
  "review_count": 3298,
  "review_user": "A.J",
  "review_text": "十四代　吟撰 美味い。開栓、香る吟醸香。口に含むと十四代らしい優しい、上品な甘味。穏...",
  "review_date": "2024年6月23日",
  "description": "近年の日本酒の味の潮流である「芳醇旨口」を代表する酒。若き15代目当主の高木顕統さんが...",
  "detail_url": "https://www.saketime.jp/brands/241/"
}

Notes

• Content is in Japanese (UTF-8). Review text is an excerpt of the full review.
• Rankings are sourced from Saketime's community-voted ranking list, sorted by weighted score.
• Each record outputs the top featured review per brand (highest-rated, as shown on the ranking page).
• rank may be null for lower-ranked brands that appear later in the listing.
• Saketime's robots.txt specifies Crawl-delay: 1. This actor respects the crawl delay via low concurrency.