Looking for a Vivino API?
Here's what's actually available
You want wine data in your app. You searched Vivino API. Here's the honest answer — and the alternatives developers are actually using.
Does Vivino have a public API?
No. Vivino shut down its developer API program years ago and has not reopened it. There is no public Vivino API in 2026. Some older tutorials reference a deprecated endpoint — those no longer work, and Vivino's terms of service prohibit scraping.
If you need wine label recognition, wine ratings, food pairing recommendations, or sommelier-style chat in your app, you'll need to use a different data source.
What developers actually need from a "Vivino API"
Most developers searching for a Vivino API want one or more of these things:
- Label recognition — identify a wine from a photo
- Wine data — producer, vintage, region, grape varieties, tasting notes
- Ratings and scores — critic scores, user ratings
- Food pairings — what to eat with a given wine
- Search / recommendations — find wines by style, price, or food
Alternatives compared
| API | Label recognition | Wine data | AI recommendations | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FastCork | Yes — <1s | Full structured JSON | Sommelier chat | $0.003/req |
| Wine-Searcher | No | Prices + merchant data | No | Enterprise only |
| GPT-4.1 Vision | Yes — 3–8s | Unstructured prose | General LLM | ~$0.02/req |
| Vivino | App only | App only | No | No public API |
FastCork: the closest thing to a Vivino API for developers
FastCork is purpose-built for the use cases Vivino covers in their consumer app — label scanning, tasting notes, food pairings, and recommendations — but exposed as a clean REST API you can call from any language or platform.
# Identify a wine from a label photo
curl -X POST https://fastcork.com/v1/analyze \
-H "Authorization: Bearer fc-your_key" \
-F "file=@label.jpg" \
-F "lang=en"
# Ask for wine recommendations
curl -X POST https://fastcork.com/v1/search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer fc-your_key" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"query":"light Italian red under $25 for pasta"}'Frequently asked questions
Is there a free Vivino API?
No — there's no free or paid public Vivino API. Developers who need label recognition, ratings, or pairings use an alternative wine data API. FastCork has self-serve signup starting at $5, with per-request pricing from $0.003.
Can I scrape Vivino instead?
Vivino's terms of service prohibit scraping, and they actively block automated access. A purpose-built wine API is more reliable and avoids the legal and technical risk of scraping a consumer app you don't control.
Is there a Vivino API for Python?
There's no official Vivino Python client, because there's no public API to wrap. You can call a REST alternative from Python in a few lines — see our Vivino API in Python guide.