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WhiskyHunter
WhiskyHunter aggregates historical results from online whisky auctions — winning-bid averages, trading volume, and lot counts across dozens of auction houses over time — as a free, keyless, read-only statistics API. A live GET against the real gateway, whiskyhunter.net/api, returned genuine JSON with no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, resolving cors unknown -> no; auth None was reconfirmed by the same keyless 200.
WhiskyHunter aggregates historical results from online whisky auctions — winning-bid averages, trading volume, and lot counts across dozens of auction houses over time — as a free, keyless, read-only statistics API. A live GET this run against /distilleries_info/ returned 160 distilleries across 7 countries, and /auctions_data/ returned 2104 monthly rows from 31 auction houses spanning 2005-11-01 to 2024-07-01. That series stops at mid-2024 — roughly two years stale as of this run — so treat it as a historical archive, not a live or current feed.
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- No API key, signup, or credit card required — a live GET this run against
/distilleries_info/returned a genuine 160-distillery array with zero credentials. There's no key to add for browser use either: see the CORS gotcha below, since a plain server-side GET and a browserfetch()behave differently here even though both are equally keyless.
Your key is stored only in this browser (localStorage) and sent directly to the API — never to greatapis.
List every distillery WhiskyHunter tracks
GEThttps://whiskyhunter.net/api/distilleries_info/
[{"name":"Aberfeldy","slug":"aberfeldy","country":"Scotland"},{"name":"Aberlour","slug":"aberlour","country":"Scotland"}]This is a trimmed 2-item excerpt of the real 160-entry array (fields shown unchanged); the full response carries every tracked distillery's slug, which is the id every other route keys off — /distillery_data/{slug}/ for a single distillery's monthly stats, or /auction_data/{slug}/ for a single auction house's, using an auction slug from /auctions_data/ instead.
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Developer reference
https://whiskyhunter.net/api- GET/distilleries_info/
- GET/auctions_data/
- GET/auction_data/{slug}/
- GET/distillery_data/{slug}/
Gotchas & limits
- The auction time series ends 2024-07-01 — it is not current or live. A live GET this run against
/auctions_data/confirmed the newestdtacross all 2104 rows is2024-07-01and the oldest is2005-11-01; nothing has been added in roughly two years. Don't describe results from this API as "current auction prices." - Every route requires the trailing slash — a live GET this run against
/distilleries_info(no slash) returnedHTTP 301redirecting to the slashed form, while/distilleries_info/returned200directly. A client that doesn't follow redirects gets nothing back on the un-slashed path. - A per-distillery or per-auction lookup for an unknown slug is a genuinely empty HTTP 404 — a live GET this run against
/distillery_data/not-a-real-distillery/and/auction_data/not-a-real-auction/both returned404withcontent-length: 0, no JSON error body at all — unlike the list routes (/distilleries_info/,/auctions_data/), which always return a real JSON array. Code that calls.json()unconditionally will throw on a bad slug. - There is no
Access-Control-Allow-Originheader on any route, with or without anOriginheader sent — a live GET this run against/distilleries_info/confirmed it's absent even when the request carriedOrigin: https://example.com. Server-side requests are unaffected; a real browserfetch()from another origin gets blocked by the browser itself.