BBC Good Food Scraper | Recipes and Cooking Data
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BBC Good Food Scraper | Recipes and Cooking Data
Extract recipes from BBC Good Food including ingredients, method steps, prep and cook times, servings, difficulty, nutrition, ratings, and reviews. Search by cuisine, diet, occasion, or ingredient to build culinary datasets, meal plans, recipe apps, or AI training corpora.
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🍳 BBC Good Food Recipe Scraper
🚀 Export BBC Good Food recipes to CSV, Excel, or JSON in seconds. No account needed, no coding required.
Extract recipes from BBC Good Food with complete data: ingredients, cooking times, difficulty, ratings, nutrition info, dietary tags, and more. Whether you're building a meal planner, training a recipe AI, or researching culinary trends - this scraper delivers clean, structured data instantly.
BBC Good Food is one of the world's largest recipe databases with over 13,000 professionally tested recipes covering every cuisine, diet, and skill level.
Coverage: Recipes for every occasion - weeknight dinners, weekend baking, holiday feasts, quick lunches - filtered by keyword, diet, cuisine, or difficulty. Up to 30 results per search page, paginated to your maxItems limit.
| Who uses this | Why |
|---|---|
| Food tech startups | Dataset for recipe recommendation engines |
| Nutritionists | Calorie and ingredient analysis at scale |
| Home cooks | Build personal recipe collections |
| Data journalists | Food trend research |
| AI trainers | Fine-tuning recipe generation models |
| Meal kit companies | Competitor recipe research |
📋 What the BBC Good Food Scraper does
- Searches BBC Good Food by keyword, diet, cuisine, or difficulty level
- Fetches full recipe detail pages for each result
- Extracts all structured data from Next.js page state and JSON-LD schema
- Produces clean records with 19 fields per recipe
- Respects rate limits with automatic paging and delays
- Auto-limits to 10 items for free users, up to 1,000,000 for paid plans
💡 Why it matters: BBC Good Food's recipes are professionally tested and editorially curated - this is not user-generated content. The data is research-grade: every recipe has been made, tasted, and rated by real cooks.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: author, calories, category, cookTime, cuisine, description, diet, difficulty, imageUrl, prepTime, rating, results, reviewCount, scrapedAt, servings, title, totalTime, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
🚀 How to use
- Create a free account on Apify (comes with $5 credit)
- Open the BBC Good Food Scraper on Apify Store
- Enter your search query, optional filters, and
maxItems - Click Start and wait a few seconds
- Download your dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML
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Disclaimer: This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to BBC Good Food or Immediate Media. It accesses publicly available recipe pages for research and educational purposes. Use responsibly and in accordance with BBC Good Food's terms of service.
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