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TheMealDB Recipes Scraper

$0.5/1K 🔥 Fast TheMealDB recipes scraper! Meals by name, category, area or ingredient — full ingredients & instructions. No key. JSON, CSV, Excel or API in seconds. Pull thousands for recipe apps & food datasets ⚡

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TheMealDB Recipes Scraper 🍽️

Scrape structured recipe data from TheMealDB — meals with full ingredients + measures, step-by-step instructions, categories, cuisines (areas), tags, thumbnail images and YouTube links. Search by meal name or filter by category, area or main ingredient. No API key required.

Perfect for building recipe apps, food datasets, meal-planning tools and content pipelines.

✨ What it does

Search by name — pass queries like chicken, pasta, curry and get full meals back.
Filter by category / area / ingredient — e.g. all Seafood meals, all Italian dishes, or everything made with chicken_breast.
Full enrichment — filtered results are slim by default on TheMealDB; enable enrichFull to fetch complete ingredients, measures and instructions for every match.
Clean, normalized output — the messy strIngredient1..20 / strMeasure1..20 fields are paired into a single tidy ingredients list and tags are split into an array.

📤 Output

One dataset item per meal:

Field	Description
`id`	TheMealDB meal id
`name`	Meal name
`category`	Category (e.g. Seafood, Dessert)
`area`	Cuisine / area (e.g. Italian, Indian)
`instructions`	Cooking steps (capped at 6000 chars)
`thumbnail`	Meal image URL
`tags`	List of tags
`youtube`	YouTube tutorial link
`source_url`	Original recipe source
`ingredients`	List of `"measure ingredient"` strings
`source`	Always `themealdb`
`scraped_at`	ISO timestamp

{
  "id": "52795",
  "name": "Chicken Handi",
  "category": "Chicken",
  "area": "Indian",
  "instructions": "Take a large pot or wok...",
  "thumbnail": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/media/meals/wyxwsp1486979827.jpg",
  "tags": [],
  "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO0issT0Rmc",
  "source_url": null,
  "ingredients": ["1.2 kg Chicken", "5 thinly sliced Onion", "..."],
  "source": "themealdb",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-20T12:00:00+00:00"
}

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
`mode`	select	`search`	`search` (by name) or `filter` (by category/area/ingredient)
`queries`	array	`["chicken","pasta"]`	Meal name queries (mode=search)
`filterType`	select	`category`	`category`, `area` or `ingredient` (mode=filter)
`filterValue`	string	–	Value to filter by, e.g. `Seafood`
`enrichFull`	boolean	`true`	Look up full details for filtered results
`maxItems`	integer	`100`	Max meals to output (max 1000)

Example — search

{ "mode": "search", "queries": ["chicken", "curry"], "maxItems": 50 }

Example — filter by category with full data

{ "mode": "filter", "filterType": "category", "filterValue": "Seafood", "enrichFull": true }

💰 Pricing

Pay-per-result, roughly $0.5 per 1,000 meals. TheMealDB is datacenter-friendly, so runs are fast and cheap — no residential proxies needed.

🎯 Use cases

Recipe apps — seed your app with structured, ready-to-use recipes.
Food datasets — build ML / analytics datasets of meals, ingredients and cuisines.
Meal planning — power weekly planners and shopping-list generators.
Content — food blogs, newsletters and social pipelines.

🏷️ Keywords

themealdb, recipe scraper, meal data, food api, ingredients, cooking, recipe api, meal dataset, cuisine, food scraper

Data sourced from the public TheMealDB API. Use responsibly and in line with TheMealDB's terms.

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