🍽 Delish Scraper

🚀 Export Delish recipes to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML in seconds. No account, no login, no API key required.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-22 · 📊 19 fields per record · Thousands of recipes · Global coverage

The Delish Scraper extracts rich recipe data directly from delish.com - one of the most popular food and recipe websites in the world. It uses Delish's server-side rendered pages and JSON-LD structured data to collect accurate, complete recipe records including full ingredient lists, step-by-step instructions, nutrition info, ratings, and more.

Delish publishes thousands of original recipes tested in their professional kitchens, covering everything from quick weeknight dinners to elaborate holiday feasts. This scraper lets you collect that data at scale for research, apps, or business use - no web scraping expertise required.

Coverage: All publicly accessible recipe content on Delish.com including cooking, baking, drinks, seasonal specials, and trend-driven content. Search by keyword across the full recipe library.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Food bloggers and creators	Research trending recipes and ingredient combinations
Nutrition apps	Build searchable recipe databases with calories and macros
Meal planning startups	Populate recipe libraries with real, tested content
Food researchers	Analyze cooking trends, ingredient frequencies, and cuisine categories
Data journalists	Study food culture and recipe evolution over time
Developers	Train NLP models on real recipe instruction text
Grocery apps	Map ingredients to shopping lists from popular recipes
Home cooks	Download personal recipe collections for offline use

📋 What the Delish Scraper does

• Searches Delish.com for recipes matching your query
• Extracts structured data from JSON-LD on each recipe page
• Falls back to page body data for recipes with incomplete structured data
• Returns complete recipe records: ingredients, instructions, timing, servings, calories, tags
• Handles pagination across multiple search result pages
• Respects free/paid usage limits automatically

💡 Why it matters: Delish is one of the most-visited food sites in the US, published by Hearst. Their recipes are professionally tested and written by trained chefs and food editors. This data is significantly higher quality than crowdsourced recipe sites.

🎬 Full Demo

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	chicken	Keyword to search for recipes (e.g. "pasta", "chocolate cake", "vegan dinner")
maxItems	integer	10	Number of recipes to scrape. Free users: max 10. Paid users: up to 1,000,000.

Example 1 - Quick search:

{
  "searchQuery": "pasta",
  "maxItems": 10
}

Example 2 - Larger dataset:

{
  "searchQuery": "chicken dinner",
  "maxItems": 100
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Free users are automatically limited to 10 items per run regardless of the maxItems value. Upgrade to a paid plan to scrape up to 1,000,000 recipes.

📊 Output

Each item in the dataset contains the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
🖼 imageUrl	string	Full-size recipe photo URL
📌 title	string	Recipe name (e.g. "Pesto Chicken")
📝 description	string	Short intro describing the dish
👤 author	string	Recipe developer or editor name
⭐ rating	number	Aggregate rating (1-5 scale)
💬 reviewCount	integer	Number of user reviews
🥄 ingredients	array	Full ingredient list with measurements
📋 instructions	array	Step-by-step cooking instructions
⏱ prepTime	string	Prep time (e.g. "15 min")
🍳 cookTime	string	Cook time (null if not specified separately)
⏰ totalTime	string	Total time from start to finish
🍽 servings	string	Number of servings (e.g. "4 serving(s)")
🔥 calories	string	Calorie count (e.g. "722 Calories")
🏷 tags	array	Recipe tags (e.g. ["dinner", "weeknight meals"])
📂 category	string	Category string from recipe metadata
🔗 url	string	Direct link to the recipe page
📅 publishedAt	string	ISO 8601 publication date
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 scrape timestamp
❌ error	string	Error message if scraping failed (null on success)

Sample record:

{
  "imageUrl": "https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/pesto-chicken-index-65d6162224dec.jpg?crop=0.5622727272727273xw:1xh;center,top&resize=1200:*",
  "title": "Pesto Chicken",
  "description": "Looking for an easy date night dinner to impress? Look no further than this easy pesto chicken with homemade pesto and plenty of cheese.",
  "author": "Mary Rupp",
  "rating": 5,
  "reviewCount": 1,
  "ingredients": [
    "2 c. tightly packed fresh basil leaves",
    "1/2 c. extra-virgin olive oil",
    "1/4 c. toasted pine nuts",
    "2 cloves garlic, finely chopped",
    "1 1/2 tsp. kosher salt, divided",
    "1 oz. Parmesan, finely grated (about 1/2 c.)",
    "1 tsp. fresh lemon juice",
    "2 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breasts (3-4)",
    "1/2 c. shredded mozzarella"
  ],
  "instructions": [
    "Preheat oven to 400°. In a food processor, process basil, oil, pine nuts, garlic, and 1/2 teaspoon salt until smooth...",
    "Grease an 11\"-by-8\" baking dish with cooking spray. Pat chicken dry...",
    "Bake chicken 20 minutes. Remove from oven and top with mozzarella..."
  ],
  "prepTime": "15 min",
  "cookTime": null,
  "totalTime": "45 min",
  "servings": "4 serving(s)",
  "calories": "722 Calories",
  "tags": ["date night", "easy chicken", "weeknight meals", "dinner", "main dish", "poultry"],
  "category": "date night, easy chicken, weeknight meals, dinner, main dish, poultry",
  "url": "https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a42476911/best-pesto-chicken-recipe/",
  "publishedAt": "2023-01-12T21:14:45.091949-0500",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-22T03:26:51.000Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

Feature	Details
🎯 Accurate JSON-LD extraction	Uses Delish's own structured data for clean, reliable output
🔁 Smart fallback	Extracts instructions from page body when JSON-LD is incomplete
🚀 Fast	Typically completes 5 recipes in under 10 seconds
🔒 No credentials needed	Works entirely on public pages
📦 19 output fields	Full recipe data including nutrition, tags, timings, and author
💸 Pay-per-result	Only charged for actual recipe records
🆓 Free preview	First 10 items free, no credit card required

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Feature	This Actor	Manual scraping	Generic scrapers
Structured JSON-LD extraction	Yes	Manual work	Rarely
Instructions fallback	Yes	Manual work	No
Pagination support	Yes	Manual work	Varies
Maintained and updated	Yes	Your responsibility	Rarely
Free tier	10 items	-	Varies
Pay-per-result pricing	Yes	-	No

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account (includes $5 free credit)
2. Open the Delish Scraper actor page
3. Click Try for free
4. Enter your searchQuery (e.g. "pasta", "chocolate cake")
5. Set maxItems (default: 10)
6. Click Start and wait for the run to finish
7. Download results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💼 Business use cases

Recipe apps and websites

Build a recipe database for a meal planning app, cooking blog, or food delivery platform. Use the full ingredient lists and instructions to power search, filtering, and recommendation features.

Nutrition and diet tools

Collect calorie counts, serving sizes, and ingredient data to build meal trackers, macro calculators, or diet planning tools. All nutrition data comes directly from Delish's tested recipes.

Food trend analysis

Monitor which ingredients, cuisines, and cooking techniques are trending on one of the most-visited food sites in the US. The tags, category, and publishedAt fields enable time-series analysis.

AI training data

Use the structured instruction steps and ingredient lists to fine-tune language models for recipe generation, ingredient substitution suggestions, or cooking chatbots. Real, tested recipe text is significantly better than synthetic data.

🔌 Automating Delish Scraper

Connect this actor to your workflows using:

• Make (Integromat) - Schedule runs and send results to Google Sheets, Airtable, or any database
• Zapier - Trigger recipes export on a schedule and push to Notion, Slack, or email
• Apify API - Call the actor programmatically from any codebase
• Webhooks - Get notified when a run completes and process results automatically
• Apify Scheduler - Run daily or weekly to keep your recipe database fresh

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research and academia

Food scientists and nutritionists can use this data to study recipe evolution, regional cooking differences, or the nutritional profiles of popular published recipes.

Creative projects

Writers, photographers, and content creators can use recipe data to plan shoots, find seasonal inspiration, or identify gaps in their niche.

Non-profit and education

Nutrition educators can build free recipe tools for communities. Culinary schools can create searchable databases for students.

Personal projects

Download your own curated recipe collections, build a private recipe box, or power a Raspberry Pi cooking assistant.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

You can ask an AI assistant (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini):

"I have a JSON dataset of Delish recipes with fields: title, description, author, rating, reviewCount, ingredients, instructions, prepTime, totalTime, servings, calories, tags, category, url, publishedAt. Help me find recipes under 30 minutes with fewer than 10 ingredients."

Or:

"Analyze these Delish recipe records and identify which categories appear most frequently in the tags field."

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🤔 Does this require a Delish account?

No. All data is scraped from publicly available pages without any login.

🌍 What recipes are available?

All recipes publicly listed on Delish.com. This includes thousands of recipes across all categories.

📄 What formats can I export to?

CSV, Excel (XLSX), JSON, XML, and JSONL are all available from the Apify dataset view.

🔄 How fresh is the data?

Data is scraped in real-time each time you run the actor. There is no caching.

⏱ How fast is it?

In testing, 5 recipes complete in about 8-10 seconds. Larger runs scale proportionally.

💰 How much does it cost?

Free users get 10 recipes per run. Paid plans unlock up to 1,000,000 recipes per run with pay-per-result pricing.

🍳 Why is cookTime sometimes null?

Delish often omits a separate cook time in their structured data, providing only total time. When the underlying data reports 0 seconds for cook time, it is stored as null.

🔢 Why does calories show "722 Calories" instead of just 722?

This is the raw format from Delish's JSON-LD data. It preserves the original string including units.

📊 Can I get multiple pages of results?

Yes. The actor automatically paginates through search results to collect your requested number of items.

🔒 Is this legal?

This actor accesses only publicly available web pages. It does not bypass any authentication, rate limits, or terms of service restrictions beyond normal browser behavior.

❓ What if a recipe has no rating?

The rating and reviewCount fields will be null for recipes that have not yet received reviews.

🔑 Do I need an API key?

No API key is required. The actor runs entirely on Apify's infrastructure using your account.

🔌 Integrate with any app

This actor integrates with the full Apify ecosystem:

• Google Sheets - Export directly from the dataset
• Airtable - Use the Apify API to populate a base
• Slack - Get notified when a run completes
• Notion - Push recipe records to a database
• Make / Zapier - Build no-code automations
• REST API - Integrate with any backend
• Webhooks - Trigger workflows on completion
• CSV / Excel - One-click download for spreadsheet users

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⚠️ Disclaimer: Independent tool, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Delish or Hearst. Only publicly available content is collected. Use responsibly and in accordance with Delish's terms of service.