Whisky Hunter website screenshot

Whisky Hunter

Whisky Hunter is a market research and data platform for whisky collectors, investors, traders, and enthusiasts that aggregates historical auction data from 28 online whisky auction sites into a single database. It tracks trading volumes, winning bids, lot counts, and per-distillery statistics. All trading volumes and winning bids are stated in GBP (£). The Whisky Hunter API provides free, public access to this auction data with no authentication required.

Whisky Hunter publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Auctions API and Distilleries API. Tagged areas include Whisky, Spirits, Auctions, Market Data, and Collectors.

The Whisky Hunter catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Whisky Hunter’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 8 more developer resources.

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41.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessFreemiumOpen⚡ Free to try
2 APIs
WhiskySpiritsAuctionsMarket DataCollectorsInvestors

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 41.2/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 8.3 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Whisky Hunter Auctions API

The Auctions API from Whisky Hunter — 1 operation(s) for auctions.

Whisky Hunter Distilleries API

The Distilleries API from Whisky Hunter — 2 operation(s) for distilleries.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Whisky Hunter API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Whisky Hunter Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Whisky Hunter Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Whisky Hunter Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Whisky Hunter Context

40 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Whisky Hunter API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Whisky Hunter API Rules

9 rules · 2 errors 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Whisky Hunter Auction Data Point

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Whisky Hunter Distillery

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Whisky Hunter Auction Data Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Whisky Hunter Distillery Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Whisky Hunter Get Auctions Data Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Whisky Hunter Get Distillery Data Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Whisky Hunter List Distilleries Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Whisky Hunter Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Whisky Hunter Agentic Access

3 operations

3 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

OpenAPI
OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Vocabulary
Vocabulary
 JSONLDContext
JSONLDContext
 SpectralRules
SpectralRules

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

API
API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: whisky-hunter
name: Whisky Hunter
description: Whisky Hunter is a market research and data platform for whisky collectors, investors, traders, and enthusiasts
  that aggregates historical auction data from 28 online whisky auction sites into a single database. It tracks trading volumes,
  winning bids, lot counts, and per-distillery statistics. All trading volumes and winning bids are stated in GBP (£). The
  Whisky Hunter API provides free, public access to this auction data with no authentication required.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Freemium · Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/whisky-hunter.png
tags:
- Whisky
- Spirits
- Auctions
- Market Data
- Collectors
- Investors
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/whisky-hunter/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2025-02-24'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: whisky-hunter:whisky-hunter-auctions-api
  name: Whisky Hunter Auctions API
  description: The Auctions API from Whisky Hunter — 1 operation(s) for auctions.
  humanURL: https://whiskyhunter.net/api/
  baseURL: https://whiskyhunter.net/api
  tags:
  - Auctions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/whisky-hunter-auctions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://whiskyhunter.net/api/
  - type: AuctionsData
    url: https://whiskyhunter.net/api/auctions_data/?format=json
  - type: DistilleriesInfo
    url: https://whiskyhunter.net/api/distilleries_info/?format=json
- aid: whisky-hunter:whisky-hunter-distilleries-api
  name: Whisky Hunter Distilleries API
  description: The Distilleries API from Whisky Hunter — 2 operation(s) for distilleries.
  humanURL: https://whiskyhunter.net/api/
  baseURL: https://whiskyhunter.net/api
  tags:
  - Distilleries
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/whisky-hunter-distilleries-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://whiskyhunter.net/api/
  - type: AuctionsData
    url: https://whiskyhunter.net/api/auctions_data/?format=json
  - type: DistilleriesInfo
    url: https://whiskyhunter.net/api/distilleries_info/?format=json
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/whisky-hunter-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/whisky-hunter-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://whiskyhunter.net
- type: API
  url: https://whiskyhunter.net/api/
- type: OpenAPI
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/whisky-hunter/refs/heads/main/openapi/whisky-hunter-openapi.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/whisky-hunter/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/whisky-hunter-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/whisky-hunter/refs/heads/main/json-ld/whisky-hunter-context.jsonld
- type: SpectralRules
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/whisky-hunter/refs/heads/main/rules/whisky-hunter-rules.yml
- url: https://whiskyhunter.net/blog/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com