canonical: https://jentic.com/apis/untappd.com/untappd

# Untappd API

The Untappd API allows access to beer checkins, user data, beer and brewery information, and social features. The API exposes 29 endpoints secured with apiKey, oauth2 authentication.

## For AI agents

Programmatically recent friend activity, get user checkins. Covers 29 operations with apiKey, oauth2 authentication.

## Scope

Does not handle payments, communications, or crm - use for social media only.

## Capabilities

- Recent friend activity
- Get user checkins
- Integrate Untappd API into automated workflows
- Query and filter Untappd API records by parameters
- Monitor Untappd API operational status and events

## Use cases

### Social Media Operations

Use the Untappd API to perform social media operations programmatically. The API provides 29 endpoints covering core functionality including recent friend activity, get user checkins, get beer activity.

Example prompt: Call GET `/checkin/recent` to recent friend activity

### Automated Beer Management

Automate beer operations by combining multiple Untappd API endpoints. Agents can get user checkins and then get beer activity in a single workflow.

Example prompt: Call GET `/user/checkins/{username}` to get user checkins, then verify the result

### AI Agent Integration via Jentic

AI agents discover and call Untappd API endpoints through Jentic without managing credentials directly. An agent searches for the required operation by intent, receives the matching endpoint schema, and executes the call with Jentic-managed authentication. This eliminates the need to read API documentation or handle apiKey, oauth2 tokens manually.

Example prompt: Search Jentic for 'recent friend activity', load the operation schema, and execute with Jentic-managed credentials

## Key endpoints

| Method | Path | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| GET | `/checkin/recent` | Recent friend activity |
| GET | `/user/checkins/{username}` | Get user checkins |
| GET | `/beer/checkins/{bid}` | Get beer activity |
| GET | `/brewery/checkins/{brewery_id}` | Get brewery activity |
| GET | `/venue/checkins/{venue_id}` | Get venue activity |
| GET | `/user/info/{username}` | Get user details |
| GET | `/user/friends/{username}` | Get user friends list |
| GET | `/user/badges/{username}` | Get user badges |

## Key resources

- **Beer** — Operations for beer
- **Brewery** — Operations for brewery
- **Checkin** — Operations for checkin
- **Friend** — Operations for friend
- **Notifications** — Operations for notifications

## Why Jentic

- **Setup:** Wiring the Untappd API by hand means passing a client_id query credential or OAuth 2.0 token on every call, matching each checkin and user operation to its request shape, and handling responses yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import the Untappd API from the API Directory, store the credential once, and your agent calls it.
- **Permission scoping:** The Untappd API exposes read operations over checkins, users, and venues, so scope your agent to the ones it needs, such as reading recent checkins or a user's badges. You choose the operations it may call, so it is limited to the queries you enable and nothing more.
- **Credential handling:** Your Untappd client credential and OAuth 2.0 token are stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. They never enter the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
- **Discovery method:** Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'get recent friend checkins' or 'look up a user's badges', and Jentic returns the matching Untappd operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

## Related APIs

- **Facebook** — Alternative social media API
- **Twitter** — Alternative social media API
- **Linkedin** — Complementary social media API

## FAQ

### What authentication does the Untappd API use?

The Untappd API uses apiKey, oauth2 authentication. Through Jentic, these credentials are stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and injected at execution time, so raw secrets never enter the agent context.

### Can I recent friend activity with the Untappd API?

Yes. Use the GET `/checkin/recent` endpoint. The API returns structured JSON responses that agents can parse and act on directly.

### What are the rate limits for the Untappd API?

Rate limits are not specified in the OpenAPI spec. Check the vendor documentation for current limits. Through Jentic, rate limiting is handled automatically with retry logic built into the execution layer.

### How do I recent friend activity through Jentic?

Install the Jentic SDK with pip install jentic, authenticate through Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer, then search for 'recent friend activity'. Jentic returns the matching Untappd API operation with its input schema. Load the schema and execute the call - credentials are injected automatically.

### How many endpoints does the Untappd API have?

The Untappd API exposes 29 endpoints covering beer, brewery, checkin operations.

### Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Untappd API?

Yes. Because Jentic One is self-hosted by you, your own rules decide which Untappd operations and credentials your agent may use. The Untappd API is read-only over checkins, users, breweries, and venues, so you can enable just the calls the agent needs, such as GET `/checkin/recent` for recent friend activity or GET `/user/badges/{username}` for a user's badges, while withholding the rest. The agent is limited to the queries you turn on and can call nothing more.