Epicurious Recipe Scraper

Scrape recipes from Epicurious.com — Condé Nast's award-winning recipe platform with thousands of tested recipes from Bon Appétit, Gourmet Magazine, and expert chefs.

Features

• Search recipes by keyword with optional cuisine, diet, and meal type filters
• Scrape specific URLs — provide a list of recipe URLs to scrape directly
• Extracts full recipe data: title, ingredients, step-by-step instructions, timing, servings, author, dietary info, and tags
• No authentication, cookies, or proxy required — works out of the box
• Handles pagination automatically to collect maxItems recipes

Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	select	search (default) or byUrl
searchQuery	string	Keyword to search (e.g. pasta carbonara)
cuisine	select	Cuisine filter (Italian, Mexican, Chinese, etc.)
diet	select	Dietary filter (Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten-Free, etc.)
mealType	select	Meal type (Breakfast, Dinner, Dessert, etc.)
minRating	integer	Drop recipes with a star rating (0-5) below this value
recipeUrls	array	Specific Epicurious recipe URLs (for byUrl mode)
maxItems	integer	Maximum number of recipes to return (default: 10)

Output

Each dataset item represents one recipe:

Field	Type	Description
title	string	Recipe name
url	string	Epicurious recipe page URL
description	string	Recipe headnote / description
author	string	Recipe author
imageUrl	string	Main recipe image URL
rating	number	Average star rating (0-5), omitted for recipes with no ratings yet
reviewCount	integer	Number of ratings behind the score
totalTime	string	Total time (e.g. 45 min, 1 hr 30 min), omitted when the recipe doesn't publish it
cookTime	string	Cook time, omitted when the recipe doesn't publish it
servings	string	Yield / serving size
ingredients	array	List of ingredient strings
instructions	array	Step-by-step instructions
cuisine	array	Cuisine tags
mealType	array	Meal type tags
diet	array	Inferred dietary labels
tags	array	All recipe keywords/tags
publishedAt	string	Publication date (YYYY-MM-DD)
updatedAt	string	Last-updated date (YYYY-MM-DD), when the recipe has been revised
sourceUrl	string	Canonical recipe URL
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of when record was scraped
recordType	string	Always "recipe"

Example Output

{
  "title": "Chicken Caesar Pasta Salad",
  "url": "https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/ba-syn-chicken-caesar-pasta-salad",
  "description": "This pasta salad has all the best parts of a classic Caesar...",
  "author": "Shilpa Uskokovic",
  "imageUrl": "https://assets.epicurious.com/photos/...",
  "totalTime": "45 min",
  "servings": "4 servings",
  "ingredients": ["1 lb short pasta", "2 chicken breasts", "..."],
  "instructions": ["Cook pasta until al dente...", "..."],
  "cuisine": ["american"],
  "mealType": ["lunch", "dinner"],
  "diet": ["Nut-Free"],
  "tags": ["lunch", "dinner", "pasta", "chicken", "nut free"],
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-22",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/ba-syn-chicken-caesar-pasta-salad",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-30T12:00:00+00:00",
  "recordType": "recipe"
}

FAQs

Q: Does this scraper require an API key or login?
A: No. Epicurious recipe pages are publicly accessible.

Q: How many recipes can I scrape?
A: Set maxItems up to 500. The scraper paginates search results automatically.

Q: Can I filter by multiple criteria?
A: Yes — combine searchQuery, cuisine, diet, and mealType in a single run.

Q: What is the data source?
A: All data is scraped from epicurious.com, which hosts recipes from Bon Appétit, Gourmet, and independent contributors.

Q: What happened to AllRecipes Scraper?
A: AllRecipes.com (owned by Dotdash Meredith) blocks all datacenter IPs and requires residential proxy — incompatible with a zero-cost workflow. Epicurious offers equivalent or better recipe data and is freely accessible.