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from $10.00 / 1,000 result items

TheMealDB Recipes Scraper

Pull recipes from TheMealDB: dish name, category, cuisine, full ingredients with measures, step-by-step instructions, image, video, source URL, and tags. Search by name, browse by category/cuisine/ingredient, get random meals, or look up by ID. No key needed.

Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 result items

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Developer

ParseForge

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Monthly active users

3 days ago

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Automation

You can access the TheMealDB Recipes Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "maxItems": 10,
10    "mode": "byCategory",
11    "query": "Chicken",
12}
13
14# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
15run = client.actor("parseforge/themealdb-recipes-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
16
17# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
18print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
19for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
20    print(item)
21
22# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Meal Recipes Scraper - Categories, Ingredients API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use TheMealDB Recipes Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

TheMealDB Recipes Scraper API in JavaScript

TheMealDB Recipes Scraper API through CLI

TheMealDB Recipes Scraper OpenAPI definition

TheMealDB Recipes Scraper API

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