🍳 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.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-22 · 📊 19 fields per record · Unlimited recipes · Global coverage

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.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	Yes	pasta	Keyword to search for (e.g. "chicken soup", "vegan cake")
maxItems	integer	No	10	Max recipes to return (free: 10, paid: up to 1,000,000)

Example - search for pasta recipes:

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

Example - search for vegan desserts:

{
  "searchQuery": "vegan dessert",
  "maxItems": 100
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Free users are automatically limited to 10 recipes per run. Upgrade to a paid plan to scrape up to 1,000,000 recipes per run.

📊 Output

Each record contains 19 fields. Here is the full schema:

Field	Type	Description
🖼️ imageUrl	string	URL of the recipe's hero image
📝 title	string	Recipe title
👤 author	string	Recipe author name(s)
🔗 url	string	Canonical URL of the recipe page
⭐ rating	number	Average rating (e.g. 4.8)
🗳️ numRatings	integer	Number of ratings
⏱️ prepTime	string	Preparation time (e.g. "10 min")
🍳 cookTime	string	Cook time (e.g. "20 min")
⏰ totalTime	string	Total time from start to finish
🍽️ servings	string	Number of servings
🔥 calories	integer	Calories per serving
🥗 ingredients	array	Full list of ingredients with quantities
📋 instructions	array	Step-by-step cooking instructions
📄 description	string	Recipe description / intro paragraph
🏷️ tags	array	Keywords and categories (e.g. "Italian", "Quick and Easy")
🌍 cuisine	string	Cuisine type (e.g. "Italian", "American")
🥦 diet	array	Dietary labels detected (Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten-Free, etc.)
🕐 scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of when the record was scraped
❌ error	string	Error message if extraction failed, otherwise null

Sample record:

{
  "imageUrl": "https://www.simplyrecipes.com/thmb/0UeN5LhKq-ze3BcZJ7_Yp803T24=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/Simply-Pasta-Carbonara-LEAD-1-c477cc25c7294cd9a3fc51ece176481f.jpg",
  "title": "Pasta Carbonara",
  "author": "Elise Bauer",
  "url": "https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/spaghetti_alla_carbonara/",
  "rating": 4.8,
  "numRatings": 48,
  "prepTime": "10 min",
  "cookTime": "20 min",
  "totalTime": "30 min",
  "servings": "6",
  "calories": 359,
  "ingredients": [
    "1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil or unsalted butter",
    "1/2 pound pancetta or thick cut bacon, diced",
    "1-2 garlic cloves, minced, about 1 teaspoon (optional)",
    "3-4 whole eggs",
    "1 cup grated parmesan or pecorino cheese",
    "1 pound spaghetti (or bucatini or fettuccine)",
    "Salt and black pepper to taste"
  ],
  "instructions": [
    "Put a large pot of salted water on to boil (1 tablespoon salt for every 2 quarts of water.)",
    "While the water is coming to a boil, heat the olive oil or butter in a large saute pan over medium heat. Add the bacon or pancetta and cook slowly until crispy...",
    "In a small bowl, beat the eggs and mix in about half of the cheese.",
    "Once the water has reached a rolling boil, add the dry pasta, and cook, uncovered, at a rolling boil.",
    "When the pasta is al dente, use tongs to move it to the bowl with the bacon and garlic...",
    "Add the beaten eggs with cheese and toss quickly to combine once more."
  ],
  "description": "Classic spaghetti carbonara is an indulgent yet surprisingly simple recipe. Made with pancetta (or bacon) and plenty of Parmesan cheese, our foolproof recipe takes just 30 minutes to prepare from start to finish.",
  "tags": ["Quick and Easy", "Restaurant Favorite", "Bacon", "Carbonara", "Egg", "Italian", "Pancetta", "Parmesan", "Pasta", "Spaghetti"],
  "cuisine": "Italian",
  "diet": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-22T01:34:38.158Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

Feature	Benefit
🎯 JSON-LD extraction	Gets data from structured schema markup - more reliable than HTML scraping
🔍 Keyword search	Find any recipe type, ingredient, or cuisine
📦 Full ingredient lists	Every ingredient with precise quantities
📋 Step-by-step instructions	All cooking steps in order, ready to parse or display
🔥 Nutrition data	Per-serving calories for every recipe that has it
⭐ Ratings and reviews	Aggregate rating and count from real user reviews
🏷️ Tags and categories	Pre-classified by cuisine, diet, and meal type
🚀 Fast and lightweight	No browser required - pure HTTP fetching for maximum speed

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Feature	This Actor	Manual scraping	Browser-based actors
Speed	Fast (HTTP)	Slow	Slow
JSON-LD extraction	Yes	Requires custom code	Varies
Pagination	Automatic	Manual	Varies
Ingredient lists	Full	Varies	Varies
Nutrition data	Yes	Varies	Varies
Maintenance	Managed	Self-maintained	Varies

🚀 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

💼 Business use cases

Meal planning and nutrition apps

Build a searchable recipe database with complete ingredient lists and per-serving nutrition data. Use the calories, ingredients, and servings fields to power a meal planning calculator or food diary feature.

Food content and SEO research

Identify which recipe categories perform well and what keywords Simply Recipes ranks for. Use tags, cuisine, and title to map content gaps and inform your editorial calendar.

Recipe AI and NLP training

Train ingredient-parsing models, recipe summarizers, or cuisine classifiers using the full structured text from ingredients, instructions, and description. Real editorial data is far more reliable than crowd-sourced content.

Restaurant and catering menus

Use the structured ingredient and timing data to estimate prep times, scale recipes for large groups, or build cost estimation tools based on ingredient quantities.

🔌 Automating Simply Recipes Scraper

Connect this actor to automation platforms to build scheduled data pipelines:

• Make (Integromat) - Trigger on a schedule and push new recipes to Google Sheets or Airtable
• Zapier - Connect to Slack or email to receive daily recipe alerts by keyword
• n8n - Build complex recipe processing workflows with branching logic
• Apify API - Call the actor from any codebase and process results programmatically

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Home cooking and meal prep

Export a week of dinner recipes in one run, then load into a spreadsheet with shopping list columns. Filter by calories and totalTime to fit your schedule.

Academic food research

Collect large corpora of recipe text for computational gastronomy, ingredient co-occurrence analysis, or cuisine clustering studies.

Non-profit nutrition education

Build free tools that help community members find tested, reliable recipes by dietary restriction or ingredient availability.

Personal projects

Power a recipe recommendation bot, build a personal meal planner, or create a voice assistant skill that reads recipe steps aloud.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

You can ask ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant:

"I have a JSON dataset of recipes from Simply Recipes with fields: imageUrl, title, author, url, rating, numRatings, prepTime, cookTime, totalTime, servings, calories, ingredients, instructions, description, tags, cuisine, diet, scrapedAt. Help me filter by cuisine, sort by rating, and export to a meal plan spreadsheet."

The structured output from this actor is designed to work seamlessly with AI-powered data analysis.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Does this require a Simply Recipes account?

No. All data is publicly accessible without login.

❓ How many recipes can I scrape?

Free users are limited to 10 per run. Paid users can scrape up to 1,000,000 recipes per run.

❓ How do I search for a specific cuisine?

Enter the cuisine name as your search keyword - e.g. "Italian pasta", "Mexican chicken", or "Thai noodles".

❓ Does the scraper get the full ingredient list?

Yes. All ingredients with their quantities are extracted from the JSON-LD schema on each recipe page.

❓ Does it get step-by-step instructions?

Yes. All cooking steps are extracted in order and returned as an array of strings.

❓ What nutrition fields are available?

Currently the scraper extracts calories per serving. Additional nutrition fields (carbs, protein, fat) are available on the page and can be added on request.

❓ Can I search by category instead of keyword?

The searchQuery field searches Simply Recipes' full-text search, so category names like "dessert", "breakfast", or "salad" work well as search terms.

❓ How fresh is the data?

The scraper fetches live data in real-time from Simply Recipes. Every run gets the latest recipes and ratings.

❓ What happens if a recipe page fails to load?

The actor returns a record with the url and an error field describing the failure. Other recipes in the batch are not affected.

❓ Can I export the data to Excel or Google Sheets?

Yes. Apify datasets support one-click export to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, and RSS. Use the Apify API or UI to download in your preferred format.

❓ Is the actor updated when Simply Recipes changes their site?

ParseForge monitors actor health. If the site structure changes and data extraction breaks, the actor is updated promptly.

❓ Can I get more than 1,000,000 recipes?

Contact ParseForge via the Apify Actor page for enterprise volume requirements.

🔌 Integrate with any app

This actor works with any tool that can read JSON or call an HTTP API:

• Google Sheets - Import via Apify's Google Sheets integration or CSV export
• Airtable - Use Apify's Airtable integration or the API
• Notion - Import via CSV or use Zapier/Make to sync automatically
• Slack - Get recipe notifications via Zapier or Make workflows
• Python / R - Hit the Apify dataset API directly for data science workflows
• Node.js / TypeScript - Use the Apify client SDK for programmatic access
• Power BI / Tableau - Connect via the Apify dataset REST API
• Webhook - Trigger any downstream system when a run completes

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more data scrapers across food, travel, real estate, and finance.

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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.