🍽 Epicurious Recipe Scraper

🚀 Export Epicurious recipes to CSV, JSON, or Excel in seconds. No API key, no login, no code required.

Epicurious is one of the internet's most trusted recipe destinations, curated by the editors of Bon Appetit and Conde Nast with over 37,000 professionally tested recipes spanning every cuisine, dietary preference, and occasion. This actor scrapes recipes directly from Epicurious using structured data - delivering clean, structured records with ingredients, ratings, cook times, author credits, and more. No account or API access needed.

Data is extracted in real-time from Epicurious's own JSON-LD structured markup, ensuring accuracy and completeness for every recipe field.

Coverage: Pasta, chicken, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, holiday meals, weeknight dinners, quick meals, slow-cooked recipes, and every category Epicurious supports - searched by any keyword.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Food bloggers, nutrition researchers, meal planning apps, AI and ML teams, grocery and retail, content marketers	Competitor analysis and trend research, large-scale ingredient datasets, recipe database population, training data for recommendation models, ingredient demand forecasting, recipe inspiration and gap analysis

📋 What the Epicurious Scraper does

• Search any keyword (e.g. "pasta", "chocolate cake", "vegan dinner")
• Paginate through search results to collect as many recipes as needed
• Extract full structured data from each recipe page: ingredients, ratings, author, cook times, categories
• Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML with one click
• Works without login or API key

💡 Why it matters: Epicurious has 37,000+ professionally edited recipes from Bon Appetit and Conde Nast editors. Unlike community-sourced sites, every recipe is tested and trusted - making this dataset ideal for high-quality meal planning, nutrition research, and AI training.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: author, calories, categories, cookTime, description, imageUrl, ingredients, prepTime, rating, results, reviewCount, scrapedAt, servings, tags, 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

1. Go to the Epicurious Recipe Scraper page on Apify
2. Click Try for free
3. Enter your search query (e.g. "pasta", "chicken dinner", "vegan cake")
4. Set maxItems to control how many recipes to collect
5. Click Start and wait for the run to complete (usually under 2 minutes for 50 recipes)
6. Download results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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Disclaimer: This actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Epicurious, Conde Nast, or Bon Appetit. It extracts publicly available data from Epicurious.com for research and personal use. Always respect the site's Terms of Service and robots.txt. Do not use scraped data for commercial purposes without proper licensing.

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