🥖 King Arthur Baking Scraper

🚀 Export King Arthur Baking recipes in seconds. Search 1,500+ tested recipes by keyword - get ingredients, instructions, ratings, reviews, tips, and more. No API key, no registration, no manual copy-pasting.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-22 · 📊 18 fields per record · 🥖 1,500+ recipes · 🍰 15+ categories · ⭐ Community ratings and reviews

The King Arthur Baking Scraper extracts the complete recipe catalog from King Arthur Baking Company (kingarthurbaking.com) - one of the most trusted baking authorities in North America. Each record delivers 18 fields, including ingredients, step-by-step instructions, prep/cook/total times, yield, ratings, review counts, author credits, baker tips, and categorized tags. All recipe data is structured via JSON-LD and verified by the King Arthur test kitchen.

The catalog spans over 1,500 recipes across 15+ categories - from sourdough breads and yeasted pastries to cookies, cakes, pies, and pizza. King Arthur recipes are precision-tested, gram-weighted, and authored by professional bakers. This Actor makes that dataset downloadable as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under a minute. Just set your search term and let it run.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Food tech teams, recipe app developers, nutrition analysts, culinary researchers, baking educators, content creators, meal planning services	Recipe database building, ingredient analysis, nutrition research, baking instruction datasets, content enrichment, recipe recommendation engines

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📋 What the King Arthur Baking Scraper does

Flexible search-driven collection in a single run:

• 🔍 Keyword search. Find recipes matching any search term - "sourdough bread", "chocolate cake", "gluten-free cookies", "focaccia", and more.
• 🥖 Bread recipes. Hundreds of tested yeast breads, sourdough loaves, sandwich breads, and enriched doughs.
• 🍰 Dessert recipes. Cakes, cookies, bars, pies, tarts, cheesecakes, muffins, and more.
• 🍕 Savory recipes. Pizza doughs, flatbreads, crackers, pasta, and main dishes.
• ⭐ Ratings and reviews. Community ratings and review counts from verified bakers.
• 📝 Baker tips. Expert tips from the King Arthur test kitchen included with each recipe.

Each record includes full ingredients, numbered instructions, precise timing, yield, author name, category tags, image URL, and publication date.

💡 Why it matters: King Arthur Baking recipes are precision-tested with gram weights and professional-grade instructions. Building your own scraper means parsing Drupal structured data, handling JSON-LD edge cases, and re-scraping manually. This Actor does it all automatically and returns clean, structured data on every run.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded recipe dataset.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
maxItems	integer	10	Recipes to return. Free plan caps at 10, paid plan at 1,000,000.
searchQuery	string	"bread"	Search term to filter recipes. Matches against recipe slugs - e.g., "sourdough", "chocolate cake", "gluten-free".

Example: 50 sourdough recipes.

{
    "searchQuery": "sourdough",
    "maxItems": 50
}

Example: 20 cookie recipes.

{
    "searchQuery": "cookie",
    "maxItems": 20
}

⚠️ Good to Know: the scraper filters recipes by matching the search term against recipe URL slugs. For best results, use simple ingredient or technique keywords like "bread", "chocolate", "sourdough", "muffin", "pizza", "gluten free". If no specific match is found, the scraper returns a broader set of recipes from the catalog.

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📊 Output

Each recipe record contains 18 fields. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🖼 imageUrl	string	"https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/sites/default/files/2021-04/Vermont-Maple-Oatmeal-Bread-21-3_01-web.jpg"
📌 title	string	"Honey Oatmeal Bread"
📝 description	string	"A wholesome sandwich loaf sweetened with honey and enriched with oats..."
👤 author	string	"PJ Hamel"
⭐ rating	number	4.3
💬 reviewCount	integer	45
🥣 ingredients	array	["3/4 cup (170g) boiling water", "1 cup (90g) old-fashioned rolled oats", ...]
📋 instructions	array	["Combine the boiling water and oats...", "Add the flour, yeast, salt...", ...]
⏱ prepTime	string	"20 min"
🍳 cookTime	string	"35 min"
⏰ totalTime	string	"3 hr 10 min"
🍽 yield	string	"one 8 1/2\" x 4 1/2\" loaf"
🔖 tags	array	["Sandwich bread", "Honey"]
🏷 category	string	"Bread"
💡 tips	array	["Because of its high oat content, this bread may have a slightly craggy surface...", ...]
🔗 url	string	"https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/honey-oatmeal-bread-recipe"
📅 publishedAt	string	"December 31, 2009 at 7:00pm"
🕒 scrapedAt	string	"2026-05-22T03:45:46.863Z"

📄 Sample Records

[
  {
    "imageUrl": "https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/sites/default/files/2021-04/Vermont-Maple-Oatmeal-Bread-21-3_01-web.jpg",
    "title": "Vermont Oatmeal and Maple Bread for the Mini Zo Bread Machine",
    "description": "This hearty dough, bolstered with oats and walnuts and lightly sweetened with maple syrup, is the perfect candidate for a small bread machine like the \"Mini Zo\"...",
    "author": "Mary Tinkham",
    "rating": 4.6,
    "reviewCount": 24,
    "ingredients": [
      "3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons (198g) warm water",
      "2 1/2 tablespoons (50g) maple syrup",
      "1 1/2 tablespoons (21g) melted butter",
      "1 2/3 cups (200g) King Arthur Unbleached Bread Flour",
      "2/3 cup (60g) old-fashioned rolled oats",
      "2/3 cup (113g) walnut pieces",
      "1 3/4 teaspoons instant yeast",
      "1 teaspoon (6g) table salt"
    ],
    "instructions": [
      "Weigh your flour; or measure it by gently spooning it into a cup, then sweeping off any excess.",
      "Place the ingredients, in order, in your bread machine. Set the machine for the white bread cycle. Press Start.",
      "When the bread is done, remove it from the pan, and turn it onto a rack to cool."
    ],
    "prepTime": "10 min",
    "cookTime": "1 hr 10 min",
    "totalTime": "3 hr 30 min",
    "yield": "1 loaf",
    "tags": ["Sandwich bread", "Maple", "Bread machine"],
    "category": "Bread",
    "tips": [],
    "url": "https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/vermont-oatmeal-and-maple-bread-for-the-mini-zo-bread-machine-recipe",
    "publishedAt": "December 31, 2009 at 7:00pm",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-22T03:45:44.314Z",
    "error": null
  },
  {
    "imageUrl": "https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/sites/default/files/recipe_legacy/HONEYOATMEAL.jpg",
    "title": "Honey Oatmeal Bread",
    "description": "An absolutely delicious bread for everyone - a bit sweet, a bit hearty, with a tender, moist crumb. Perfect for toast or sandwiches.",
    "author": "PJ Hamel",
    "rating": 4.3,
    "reviewCount": 45,
    "ingredients": [
      "1 cup (227g) boiling water",
      "1 cup (90g) old-fashioned rolled oats",
      "1/3 cup (113g) honey",
      "2 tablespoons (28g) butter",
      "1 1/2 teaspoons (9g) salt",
      "2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast",
      "1/3 cup (74g) lukewarm water",
      "3 cups (360g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour",
      "1 cup (120g) King Arthur White Whole Wheat Flour",
      "1/3 cup (30g) old-fashioned rolled oats, for topping",
      "1 tablespoon milk, for brushing"
    ],
    "instructions": [
      "Combine the boiling water, oats, honey, butter, and salt. Stir until combined, and let cool to lukewarm.",
      "Weigh your flour; or measure it by gently spooning it into a cup, then sweeping off any excess.",
      "Add the yeast, lukewarm water, and flours. Mix and knead to make a smooth, soft dough.",
      "Cover and let rise for 1 to 2 hours, or until doubled in size.",
      "Gently deflate the dough, shape it into a log, and place it in a lightly greased 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 pan.",
      "Cover and let rise for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until it crowns 1 inch over the rim of the pan.",
      "Brush with milk and sprinkle with oats. Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F oven for 35 to 40 minutes.",
      "Remove from oven and cool on a rack before slicing."
    ],
    "prepTime": "20 min",
    "cookTime": "35 min",
    "totalTime": "3 hr 10 min",
    "yield": "one 8 1/2\" x 4 1/2\" loaf",
    "tags": ["Sandwich bread", "Honey"],
    "category": "Bread",
    "tips": [
      "Because of its high oat content, this bread may have a slightly craggy surface; that's normal.",
      "The type of oats you use DOES make a difference; quick oats absorb more liquid than rolled oats.",
      "When making yeast bread, let the dough rise to the point the recipe says, rather than watching the clock."
    ],
    "url": "https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/honey-oatmeal-bread-recipe",
    "publishedAt": "December 31, 2009 at 7:00pm",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-22T03:45:45.629Z",
    "error": null
  }
]

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✨ Why choose this Actor

Feature	Benefit
🥖 1,500+ tested recipes	Every recipe from King Arthur's professional test kitchen
📊 18 structured fields	Complete data including gram-weighted ingredients and numbered instructions
⭐ Ratings and reviews	Community-verified ratings and review counts on every record
💡 Baker tips included	Expert tips from King Arthur test kitchen bakers
🔍 Flexible keyword search	Find any category or ingredient - bread, cookies, sourdough, pizza, gluten-free
🔗 Sitemap-based discovery	Reliably discovers all 1,500+ recipes from the XML sitemap
⚡ Fast JSON-LD parsing	Extracts structured data directly - no fragile CSS selector chains
🌐 No auth required	King Arthur Baking is fully public - no login, no API key needed

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Actor	Recipes	Fields	Ratings	Baker Tips	Search
King Arthur Baking Scraper	1,500+	18	Yes	Yes	Keyword
Manual copy-paste	1 at a time	Incomplete	No	No	No
Generic recipe scrapers	Varies	5-8	Sometimes	No	No
Allrecipes scraper	100,000+	15	Yes	No	Yes

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🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit on Apify
2. Open the King Arthur Baking Scraper in the Apify Store
3. Set your Search Query (e.g., "sourdough bread", "chocolate cake", "cookies")
4. Set Max Items (10 for free preview, up to 1,000,000 for paid)
5. Click Start and wait 10-60 seconds
6. Download your dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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💼 Business use cases

🍽 Recipe App Development

Build or enrich a recipe database with 1,500+ precision-tested baking recipes. Each record includes gram-weighted ingredients, step-by-step instructions, yield, timing, and community ratings - everything needed to power a recipe card display.

📊 Nutrition and Food Research

Analyze ingredient patterns across hundreds of tested recipes - which flours are most popular, how sugar content varies across dessert categories, or how prep times differ between yeasted and quick breads. Use the structured ingredients array for NLP and nutrition lookup pipelines.

🎓 Culinary Education

Build educational datasets for baking courses. King Arthur recipes include detailed explanations, technique guidance in the instructions, and professional baker tips - ideal source material for culinary instruction content.

🤖 AI and Recommendation Systems

Train recipe recommendation models on high-quality, labeled baking data. Each record includes category, tags, ratings, and complete ingredient/instruction text - rich training signal for NLP, semantic search, and recommendation engines.

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🔌 Automating King Arthur Baking Scraper

Connect your recipe data to any automation platform:

• Make (Integromat): Trigger on schedule - run weekly to refresh your database with new recipes, then push to Google Sheets or Airtable.
• Zapier: When the actor completes, push recipe data to a Notion database or send a Slack notification with new recipe counts.
• Slack: Weekly digest of newly added King Arthur Baking recipes direct to your team channel.
• Airtable / Google Sheets: Live recipe database that refreshes automatically - great for editorial teams and recipe app content pipelines.
• REST API: Use the Apify API to trigger runs, fetch datasets, and integrate recipe data into any backend service.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

🔬 Academic Research

Study how professional recipe development has evolved over time using the publishedAt field. Analyze ingredient trends, technique frequency, and rating patterns across 1,500+ recipes from a single authoritative source.

🎨 Creative Projects

Build a personalized baking planner, a random-recipe-of-the-day bot, or a "what can I bake with these ingredients" app. The structured ingredients array is perfect for ingredient-matching logic.

🌱 Non-Profit and Community

Food banks and community kitchens can use King Arthur recipes as high-quality, accessible baking instruction resources - grain-based, affordable ingredients with detailed technique guidance.

🧪 Experimentation

Test recipe recommendation algorithms, ingredient substitution logic, or natural language parsing pipelines on real-world professional recipe data with community validation signals.

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🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

You can ask any AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) to help you use this Actor:

"I'm using the King Arthur Baking Scraper on Apify. Help me write a Python script to load the JSON dataset and filter recipes with more than 4.5 stars and at least 20 reviews."

"How do I connect the King Arthur Baking Scraper to Google Sheets using Make.com?"

"What's the best way to use the ingredients array to build a grocery list aggregator?"

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🤔 Does this scraper need an API key or login?

No. King Arthur Baking is fully public. No account, API key, or authentication required.

📦 How many recipes are available?

The catalog contains 1,500+ recipes across 15+ categories including bread, cookies, cakes, muffins, pizza, sourdough, and more.

🔍 How does the search work?

The scraper fetches the King Arthur Baking XML sitemap to discover all recipe URLs, then filters them by matching your search term against the recipe slugs. Simple one-word terms ("bread", "chocolate", "sourdough") work best.

🍰 What categories are available?

Bread, Buns & Rolls, Cake, Cheesecake, Coffee Cake, Cookies & Bars, Crackers, Muffins, Pancakes & Waffles, Pies & Tarts, Pizza, Scones, Sourdough, and more.

⭐ Are ratings real?

Yes. Ratings and review counts are scraped directly from the aggregateRating field in each recipe's JSON-LD structured data, which reflects community reviews on the site.

💡 What are baker tips?

Baker tips are expert notes added by the King Arthur test kitchen team - practical advice on ingredient substitutions, technique variations, storage, and troubleshooting. Not all recipes have them.

📅 What format is the published date?

The publishedAt field contains the date string exactly as provided by King Arthur Baking's structured data - e.g., "December 31, 2009 at 7:00pm".

🔄 How often should I re-run?

King Arthur publishes new recipes regularly. Running monthly will capture new additions. Use maxItems to control how many recipes you retrieve per run.

📊 Can I download as Excel?

Yes. The Apify platform supports CSV, JSON, XML, and Excel (XLSX) export from any dataset.

🆓 What's free vs. paid?

Free plan: preview up to 10 recipes per run. Paid plan: up to 1,000,000 recipes per run. Create a free account w/ $5 credit.

🔧 What happens if a recipe has no JSON-LD?

The scraper skips the page and moves on to the next URL. This is rare on King Arthur Baking as they use consistent structured data on all recipe pages.

🌐 Does this work on all King Arthur recipe types?

Yes - bread, desserts, savory recipes, gluten-free recipes, and seasonal collections are all included in the sitemap and scraped the same way.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Platform	Method
Google Sheets	Apify → Google Sheets integration via Make or Zapier
Airtable	REST API or Make.com Airtable module
Notion	Apify webhook + Notion API
Slack	Apify webhook → Slack message on completion
PostgreSQL / MySQL	Download JSON, import via CLI or ETL tool
BigQuery	Apify API → GCS → BigQuery load job
Excel / Power BI	Download XLSX from Apify dataset
CSV / pandas	Download CSV, load with pd.read_csv()
REST API	GET https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/{id}/items?format=json
Zapier	Apify Zapier app triggers on run completion
Make (Integromat)	Apify Make module, schedule or webhook trigger
n8n	Apify node, HTTP request node

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Disclaimer: This Actor is independently developed and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to King Arthur Baking Company. All recipe data is publicly available on kingarthurbaking.com. Use responsibly and in accordance with the site's Terms of Service.