Video to Recipe API: YouTube Recipe Extractor & Nutrition
Pricing
from $28.00 / 1,000 extracted recipes
Turn cooking videos into structured recipes: ingredients with quantities, steps, servings scaling, metric or imperial units, USDA nutrition per serving and an aisle-grouped shopping list. Works with YouTube links, audio or video file URLs and pasted TikTok or Instagram Reels captions.
You can access the Video to Recipe API: YouTube Recipe Extractor & Nutrition programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, youβll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "items": [12 {13 "captionText": "Garlic butter shrimp (serves 2)\n300g shrimp, peeled\n3 tbsp butter\n4 cloves garlic, minced\n1/2 tsp chili flakes\njuice of 1/2 lemon\nsalt to taste\n\nMelt 2 tbsp butter, cook the shrimp 1-2 min per side and set aside. Add the rest of the butter and the garlic, cook 30 sec, add chili flakes and lemon juice, return the shrimp and toss.",14 "sourceUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@example/video/123"15 }16 ],17 "youtubeUrls": [],18 "mediaFileUrls": []19};20
21// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish22const run = await client.actor("messnomore/video-to-recipe").call(input);23
24// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)25console.log('Results from dataset');26console.log(`πΎ Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);27const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();28items.forEach((item) => {29 console.dir(item);30});31
32// π Want to learn more π? Go to β https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Video to Recipe API: YouTube Recipe Extractor & Nutrition API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: