Food Network Recipes Scraper

Free-plan limit: Apify free-plan users receive at most 5 delivered records per run. Paid users may use the Actor’s configured result limit.

Search Food Network recipes or scrape specific public FoodNetwork.com pages into structured recipe records for meal-planning apps, recipe databases, food research, content analysis, and AI agents.

The Actor renders public pages in a consistent browser session, discovers recipe URLs from Food Network search/listing pages, and extracts the page’s Schema.org Recipe data. It does not return review bodies, private saved recipes, shopping lists, account data, videos, or copyrighted page HTML.

What it extracts

Field	Description
sourceUrl, name, description, imageUrl	Canonical recipe identity and published description/image
author, authorUrl	Chef, contributor, or Food Network Kitchen attribution
rating, reviewCount	Published aggregate rating metadata; no review text
prepTime, cookTime, totalTime, recipeYield	Published Recipe JSON-LD durations and yield
recipeCategory, recipeCuisine, keywords	Categories, cuisines, and topic terms
ingredients, instructions	Ordered ingredient lines and cooking steps
nutrition	Calories, macros, serving size, sodium, sugar, and related fields when available
datePublished, dateModified, searchQuery, scrapedAt	Source and run provenance

Input

• searchQuery: recipe name, ingredient, cuisine, or dish, such as chicken pasta. Default: chicken pasta.
• startUrls: up to 50 public Food Network recipe, category, topic, or search-result URLs. Use an empty searchQuery for URL-only runs.
• maxResults: 1–100 valid recipe records. Default: 10.
• maxPages: 1–10 listing/search pages followed per discovery route. Default: 3.
• includeNutrition: retain nutrition data when Food Network publishes it. Default: true.
• requestDelayMs: 500–5000 ms between processed pages. Default: 800.
• proxyConfiguration: defaults to a US residential Apify Proxy session because Food Network commonly rejects non-browser data-center traffic.

Search input:

{
  "searchQuery": "chicken pasta",
  "maxResults": 10,
  "maxPages": 2,
  "includeNutrition": true
}

Direct URL input:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/chicken-piccata-recipe-1952866" }
  ],
  "searchQuery": "",
  "maxResults": 1
}

Output example

{
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/one-pot-cajun-chicken-pasta-8051436",
  "name": "One-Pot Cajun Chicken Pasta",
  "description": "A creamy and comforting one-pot pasta.",
  "imageUrl": "https://food.fnr.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/food/example.webp",
  "author": "Food Network Kitchen",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.foodnetwork.com/profiles/talent/food-network-kitchen",
  "rating": 4.6,
  "reviewCount": 517,
  "prepTime": null,
  "cookTime": "P0Y0M0DT0H30M0.000S",
  "totalTime": "P0Y0M0DT0H30M0.000S",
  "recipeYield": "4 to 6 servings",
  "recipeCategory": ["main-dish"],
  "recipeCuisine": ["american"],
  "keywords": ["Pasta Recipes", "Main Dish", "Chicken Thigh", "Cajun"],
  "ingredients": ["2 tablespoons olive oil", "1 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs"],
  "instructions": ["Heat the oil in a large pot over medium-high heat."],
  "nutrition": { "calories": "496", "proteinContent": "29g" },
  "datePublished": "2020-01-03T08:17:43.176-05:00",
  "dateModified": "2020-01-03T08:17:42.395-05:00",
  "searchQuery": "chicken pasta",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-30T08:00:00.000Z"
}

All declared fields are present in every dataset item; unavailable optional values are null or an empty array. The default key-value-store OUTPUT record classifies the run as data, empty, blocked, rejected, or failed and includes diagnostics without fabricating recipe rows.

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. These are the current Apify Store event prices:

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
apify-default-dataset-item	FREE: $0.02; BRONZE: $0.019; SILVER: $0.018; GOLD: $0.017; PLATINUM: $0.017; DIAMOND: $0.017	Food Network recipe — One validated public Food Network recipe record written to the default dataset.
apify-actor-start	$0.01	Actor Start — Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event). — Charged once per run.

Apify platform usage for this Actor run is included alongside the event prices above; no separate per-run platform-usage fee is passed to users.

This covers Apify platform usage for this Actor run. Other Apify products or usage outside this Actor run may still follow your account plan.

Reliability and limitations

• Food Network currently exposes search discovery through ItemList JSON-LD and detail data through Recipe JSON-LD. Site markup, bot controls, fields, pagination, and ratings can change.
• The Actor uses one browser worker, persistent cookies, bounded retries, a realistic locale, and a residential proxy session. It does not solve CAPTCHAs or bypass authentication, paywalls, or other access controls.
• Some recipes omit nutrition, preparation time, cuisine, ratings, or author profiles; these fields remain null or empty.
• Search ranking and result counts are Food Network’s current results, not a historical or exhaustive catalog.
• Recipe text and images remain the property of their respective owners. Use the output in accordance with Food Network’s terms, robots/access policies, applicable copyright law, and your own legal obligations. Avoid republishing substantial recipe collections without permission.

API example

Run the Actor through the Apify API or an MCP-compatible Apify client with the same input object shown above, then read recipes from the default dataset and summary from the OUTPUT key-value-store record. The input/output schemas are designed for agent routing and generated API clients.

This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Food Network or Warner Bros. Discovery.