🍳 Simply Recipes Scraper

🚀 Export Simply Recipes data in seconds. Search by keyword and get full recipe details - ingredients, step-by-step instructions, nutrition facts, ratings, and more. No login required.

Simply Recipes is one of the most trusted recipe sites on the internet, with thousands of rigorously tested recipes across every cuisine and dietary need. This actor lets you extract structured recipe data at scale - from a single pasta dish to an entire category of weeknight dinners.

All data is sourced from Simply Recipes' structured JSON-LD markup, ensuring high accuracy on every field: ingredients, cook times, nutrition, and author attribution are pulled directly from the recipe schema on each page.

Coverage

• Thousands of recipes across all categories: dinners, breakfasts, salads, desserts, drinks, and more
• 19 fields per record including full ingredients list, step-by-step instructions, and per-serving nutrition
• Search by keyword - find any recipe by ingredient, dish name, or cuisine style
• Paginated scraping - automatically collects across multiple result pages to hit your maxItems target

Target Audience / Use Cases

Audience	Use Case
Food bloggers	Research trending recipes and identify content gaps
Nutrition researchers	Collect calorie and macro data across recipe categories
Meal planning apps	Build searchable recipe databases with full ingredient lists
Data scientists	Train food classification or NLP models
Recipe aggregators	Power multi-source recipe search engines
Home cooks	Bulk export recipes for personal meal planning spreadsheets

📋 What the Simply Recipes Scraper does

• Searches Simply Recipes for any keyword (e.g. "pasta", "chicken soup", "vegan dessert")
• Paginates through search results automatically
• Visits each recipe page and extracts full structured data from JSON-LD
• Returns clean, structured JSON with 19 fields per recipe
• Enforces maxItems so you get exactly the number of recipes you need
• Handles pagination gaps and missing fields gracefully - no broken records

💡 Why it matters: Recipe data from Simply Recipes is among the most reliable on the internet. Every recipe is tested by their editorial team, meaning your dataset won't be full of crowd-sourced guesses. This scraper gives you that editorial quality at machine scale.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: author, calories, cookTime, cuisine, description, diet, imageUrl, numRatings, prepTime, rating, results, 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.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account on Apify (includes $5 free credit)
2. Open the Simply Recipes Scraper on Apify Store
3. Enter your search keyword in the searchQuery field
4. Set maxItems to control how many recipes to collect
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish (typically seconds to minutes)
6. Download your dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML

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Disclaimer: This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Simply Recipes or Dotdash Meredith. It accesses only publicly available data. Users are responsible for ensuring their use of this data complies with Simply Recipes' Terms of Service and applicable laws.

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