🍳 Serious Eats Recipe Scraper

🚀 Export Serious Eats recipes to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in seconds. Full ingredients, cooking times, nutrition, author, cuisine, and more - all in one structured dataset.

The Serious Eats Recipe Scraper extracts structured recipe data from SeriousEats.com - one of the most trusted food publications on the internet, home to J. Kenji Lopez-Alt's The Food Lab and thousands of rigorously tested recipes. Data is scraped in real-time from JSON-LD schema embedded in each recipe page - the same data search engines use.

Serious Eats publishes over 10,000 recipes across cuisines including Italian, American, Asian, Mexican, and more. Each recipe goes through rigorous testing by professional cooks and food scientists.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Food bloggers, nutritionists, meal planning apps, data scientists, home cooks, recipe aggregators	Competitive research and content inspiration, calorie and ingredient analysis at scale, build recipe databases with structured ingredient lists, train food AI models on labeled recipes, bulk-export recipes for offline access, power search and filter features with rich metadata

📋 What the Serious Eats Scraper does

• Search recipes by keyword (pasta, chicken, chocolate, etc.)
• Extracts full ingredient lists from each recipe
• Captures prep time, cook time, and total time (ISO 8601)
• Gets author name, cuisine type, and recipe category
• Captures rating scores and recipe yield/servings
• Extracts caloric information from nutrition data
• Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML via Apify dataset

💡 Why it matters: Serious Eats recipes are scientifically tested. The structured data includes exact gram measurements, technique notes, and categorized tags - far richer than typical recipe sites.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: author, calories, category, cookTime, cuisine, 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. Create a free Apify account (includes $5 credit)
2. Open the Serious Eats Recipe Scraper actor
3. Enter a search query (e.g. "pasta", "chicken soup", "chocolate cake")
4. Set maxItems to control how many recipes to collect
5. Click Start and wait for the run to complete
6. Download your dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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This actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Serious Eats or Dotdash Meredith. It scrapes publicly available data in compliance with general web scraping best practices. Use responsibly and respect the source site's terms of service.

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