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TheMealDB Recipe Scraper

Scrape recipes from TheMealDB - search by name, filter by category, cuisine area or main ingredient, or look up by ID. Returns full recipe details with ingredients, measurements, instructions, thumbnail images, and YouTube links.

Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 results

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Crawler Bros

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

5 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Automation

Developer tools

Integrations

You can access the TheMealDB Recipe Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "mode": "search",
10    "searchQuery": "pasta",
11    "category": "Seafood",
12    "area": "Italian",
13    "ingredient": "chicken",
14    "mealIds": [],
15    "randomCount": 5,
16    "maxItems": 50,
17}
18
19# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
20run = client.actor("crawlerbros/themealdb-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
21
22# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
23print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
24for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
25    print(item)
26
27# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

TheMealDB Recipe Scraper API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use TheMealDB Recipe Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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TheMealDB Recipe Scraper OpenAPI definition

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