Recipe & Cocktail Scraper — Meals, Drinks & Ingredients

Search thousands of recipes and cocktails and export them as clean, structured data. Look up meals or drinks by keyword, or browse the whole database A–Z — and get one row per item with name, category, cuisine, a full ingredient list with measures, step-by-step instructions, tags, a thumbnail and (for recipes) a video link. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull straight from the API.

Perfect for food and drink apps, recipe and menu content, meal-planning tools, nutrition projects, chatbots, and building culinary datasets for LLMs.

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What you get

One flat, ready-to-use record per recipe or cocktail:

Field	Description
id / type	ID and meal or cocktail
name	Recipe / drink name
category	Category (e.g. Dessert, Cocktail)
area	Cuisine / region (recipes)
alcoholic / glass	Alcohol and glass type (cocktails)
ingredients	Array of { ingredient, measure }
instructions	Step-by-step method
tags	Tags
thumbnail	Image URL
youtube	Video link (recipes)
source	Original recipe URL
query	The keyword that produced the row
collectedAt	When the row was scraped

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How to use

{
  "type": "meals",
  "searchQueries": ["chicken", "pasta"],
  "maxItems": 200
}

• What to scrape — Recipes (meals) or Cocktails (drinks).
• Search keywords — each keyword runs its own search. Leave empty to browse the whole database A–Z.
• Max items — cap the total (0 = no limit).

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Example output

{
  "type": "meal",
  "name": "Mediterranean Pasta Salad",
  "category": "Seafood",
  "area": "Italian",
  "ingredients": [
    { "ingredient": "mozzarella balls", "measure": "200 g" },
    { "ingredient": "basil", "measure": "10 leaves" }
  ],
  "instructions": "Bring a large pot of salted water to the boil…",
  "thumbnail": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/media/meals/….jpg",
  "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…",
  "collectedAt": "2026-09-20T23:20:00.000Z"
}

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Common use cases

• Food & drink apps — power recipe search, menus and cocktail guides.
• Meal planning & nutrition — pull ingredients and instructions at scale.
• Content & SEO — build recipe and drink pages with images.
• Chatbots & LLMs — feed structured recipes to cooking assistants.
• Datasets — assemble clean culinary datasets for analysis or training.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need any login, account or key? No. Just pick recipes or cocktails and run.

Do I get the full ingredient list? Yes — each row has an ingredients array with each ingredient and its measure, plus full instructions.

Can I get cocktails too? Yes — set What to scrape to Cocktails.

Can I get everything, not just a search? Yes — leave the keywords empty to browse the whole database A–Z.

What format is the data? A flat table you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or fetch from the Apify API.

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Related scrapers

Building a food or lifestyle toolkit? Check out our other content and data scrapers on Apify Store — all with the same clean, one-row-per-item output.