Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 results

Recipe Scraper – Meals, Ingredients & Instructions

$0.5/1K 🔥 Fast recipe scraper! Meals — ingredients, instructions, category, cuisine, image & video. JSON, CSV, Excel or API in seconds. Search by name or category & pull thousands of recipes for apps & content ⚡

Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 results

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

ninhothedev

Actor stats

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Total users

Monthly active users

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Last modified

💵 Pricing

Pay per result — $0.0005 per item. No subscription, no proxy needed. You only pay for the data you scrape, and new Apify accounts include free monthly credits so you can test it for $0.

🔎 What can it extract?

Recipe name, category, cuisine
Ingredients with measures
Step-by-step instructions
Image, YouTube video, source link
Browse by ingredient / category / cuisine

🚀 How do I use it?

Click Try for free.
Set the input (see example below).
Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV or Excel — or pull them via the API / schedule them.

⚙️ Input example

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "pasta"
}

📦 Output example

{
  "name": "Mediterranean Pasta Salad",
  "category": "Seafood",
  "area": "Italian",
  "ingredient_count": 9
}

🎯 Use cases

Recipe & meal-planning apps
Grocery/shopping-list features
Nutrition datasets
AI cooking assistants

💰 How much will it cost?

You pay only the per-result price (no proxy cost): 100 → ~$0.05 · 1,000 → ~$0 · 10,000 → ~$5

🆚 Why this one

Feature	This actor	Others
Browse by ingredient/cuisine	✅	name only
Measures + video + source	✅	partial
No key needed	✅	sometimes

Open Food Facts Scraper — food products
Itunes Store Scraper — media
Wikipedia Scraper — knowledge
Open Products Facts Scraper — products

❓ FAQ

Key/proxy? No. Bulk? Filter by ingredient/category/cuisine.

🛟 Support

Found a bug or need an extra field? Open an issue on the actor — fixes and new fields ship fast.

Legal & privacy

Data via TheMealDB public API.

Keywords: recipe scraper, food data, meals, ingredients, cooking, nutrition, meal planner, JSON CSV Excel

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