AllRecipes Review Scraper 🍳

Extract detailed recipe reviews from AllRecipes.com with ease! This powerful scraper collects comprehensive review data for any recipe URL on AllRecipes.com.

🎯 Use Cases

• Analyze recipe ratings and user feedback
• Track recipe popularity and trends
• Collect user sentiments and cooking experiences
• Research recipe modifications and improvements
• Monitor customer satisfaction for specific recipes

✨ Features

• Detailed Review Data: Captures complete review information including:
  • Review text and star ratings
  • User information
  • Timestamps
  • Helpful votes count
  • Made it status
• Flexible Configuration: Set custom limits for number of reviews
• Clean Output: Structured JSON data ready for analysis
• Efficient Processing: Uses advanced browser automation
• Rate Limiting: Built-in delays to respect website limits

📊 Output Format

Each review is saved as a JSON object containing:

• Recipe URL
• Review ID and details
• User information
• Rating data
• Timestamps
• Engagement metrics

💡 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
recipeUrls	Array	List of AllRecipes.com recipe URLs to scrape
maxItems	Integer	Maximum number of reviews to collect per recipe (optional)

🚀 Getting Started

1. Enter one or more AllRecipes.com recipe URLs
2. Set the maximum number of reviews to collect (optional)
3. Run the actor and get structured review data

📝 Notes

• Respects website's robots.txt and implements polite scraping
• Processing time depends on the number of reviews and recipes
• Some reviews might be filtered by the website's moderation system

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "recipeUrls": [
3        "https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/14522/pizza-on-the-grill-i/"
4    ],
5    "maxItems": 50
6}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2    {
3        "recipeUrl": "https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/14522/pizza-on-the-grill-i/",
4        "data": {
5            "id": 26567436,
6            "docId": 6737818,
7            "userId": "ee95f40b7162885e7f2cdae96e601262debafba2",
8            "created": "2020-07-03T23:06:12.450Z",
9            "review": "I’ve been wanting to make grilled pizza for a few months now and I was not disappointed with the pizza, that is. The crust had a very nice flavor and I’m very finicky with crusts. I’m also a horrible cook, but even I made this!! The sauce I got from another recipe was a whole other story.",
10            "starRating": 5,
11            "madeIt": 0,
12            "photos": [
13                {
14                    "url": "https://images.media-allrecipes.com/userphotos/8298018.jpg",
15                    "mimeType": "jpg",
16                    "width": 3024,
17                    "height": 3024
18                }
19            ],
20            "helpfulCount": 0,
21            "displayName": "songnverse"
22        },
23        "scrapedAt": "2025-02-10T03:18:58.010Z"
24    },
25    ...
26]