Brewtoad export script

Quick and dirty script for exporting recipes from Brewtoad since it's shutting down on 2018-12-31.

The script uses Chromium (via Puppeteer) to generate a PDF of each recipe. It also downloads the recipes as BeerXML and JSON.

Requirements

• A recent version of Node.js (tested with v8.12)
• Yarn

Usage

First clone the repo, then:

yarn install
node index.js PROFILE_URL [USERNAME] [PASSWORD]

Replace PROFILE_URL with the URL to your recipes on Brewtoad (e.g. https://www.brewtoad.com/users/45285/recipes).

USERNAME and PASSWORD are optional. If all your recipes are public you don't need to sign in.

Examples

# Fetch recipes without signing in:
node index.js https://www.brewtoad.com/users/45285/recipes

# Fetch recipes as a signed in user:
node index.js https://www.brewtoad.com/users/45285/recipes user@example.com supersecret123

Limitations

• Doesn't handle any sort of pagination on the recipes page (I don't have enough recipes for that)
• There's no error handling, if something explodes the script stops
• It worked for me as is, it might explode for whatever reason in your case
• Brewtoad is unreliable now, things may or may not work