Food.com Scraper | Recipes Reviews and Ratings
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Food.com Scraper | Recipes Reviews and Ratings
Collect recipes from Food.com with full ingredients, step instructions, cook and prep times, servings, nutrition, ratings, and user reviews. Filter by category, cuisine, or ingredient to build recipe apps, food blogs, meal planners, and machine learning datasets at scale.
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๐ณ Food.com Recipe Scraper
๐ Export Food.com recipes in seconds. Search by keyword and download structured recipe data - ingredients, directions, nutrition, ratings, and more - without writing a single line of code.
The Food.com Recipe Scraper lets you search Food.com by any keyword and export the results as clean, structured JSON, CSV, or Excel. Every record includes the full ingredient list, step-by-step directions, nutrition facts (calories), prep/cook times, author, rating, review count, servings, and tags - directly from Food.com's internal search API and recipe pages.
Food.com hosts over 500,000 community-contributed recipes, making it one of the largest recipe databases on the internet. This scraper surfaces all of that data through a simple keyword search interface.
| ๐ฏ Target Audience | ๐ก Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Food bloggers & recipe developers | Building recipe databases and comparison tools |
| Nutritionists & dietitians | Analyzing calorie and macro distributions across recipe categories |
| Meal-planning app developers | Powering search and recommendation engines |
| Data scientists & researchers | Training food NLP models, studying recipe trends |
| Cooking content creators | Finding inspiration and trending recipes by keyword |
| E-commerce & affiliate marketers | Discovering popular ingredients and products |
๐ What the Food.com Scraper does
- Searches Food.com by any keyword (e.g. "pasta", "vegan tacos", "low carb chicken")
- Fetches full recipe details from each result: ingredients, step-by-step directions, nutrition info
- Exports structured data ready for download in JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML
- Supports sorting by Relevance, Highest Rating, or Newest
- Optionally filters by maximum prep time
- Respects rate limits to avoid bans - no login or API key required
๐ Data fields
Each record includes: author, calories, cookTime, description, id, 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.
๐ How to use
- Create a free Apify account (includes $5 in free credits)
- Open the Food.com Recipe Scraper on Apify Store
- Enter your search keyword (e.g. "vegan pasta", "keto chicken")
- Set your desired number of recipes and optional filters
- Click Start and download your dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel when complete
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๐ก Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for scrapers covering 100+ websites across food, real estate, jobs, and more.
โ ๏ธ Disclaimer: This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Food.com or its parent company. Only publicly available data is collected.
๐ Need Help?
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