🍝 Yummly Recipe Scraper

🚀 Export Yummly recipes with ingredients, cook time, servings, and difficulty in seconds. No API key required - just enter a search query and download.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-22 · 📊 8 fields per record · 1,500+ recipes · Global coverage

The Yummly Recipe Scraper pulls structured recipe data from Yummly - now hosted at KitchenAid.com - including full ingredient lists, cook times, difficulty, servings, and recipe tags. All data is scraped in real-time via the site's internal API, returning clean JSON, CSV, or Excel exports ready for immediate use.

The dataset covers all recipe categories available on Yummly/KitchenAid: pasta, baking, soups, salads, desserts, breakfast, and more - with filters by search keyword.

Target Audience and Use Cases

Use Case	Who Benefits
Meal planning apps	Developers building recipe recommendation features
Nutrition research	Researchers analyzing ingredient patterns
Recipe NLP datasets	AI/ML teams training food-related models
Cooking content	Bloggers, food writers, and content creators
Culinary databases	Restaurants and catering companies
Academic research	Food science and nutrition students

📋 What the Yummly Scraper Does

• Searches Yummly recipes by keyword (e.g., "pasta", "chicken", "vegan")
• Returns full ingredient lists with amounts and units
• Extracts cook time, difficulty level, servings, and course type
• Exports clean JSON, CSV, or Excel for immediate use
• Handles pagination automatically up to maxItems

💡 Why it matters: Yummly hosts thousands of tested recipes from KitchenAid's culinary team. This scraper gives you structured access to all of them without manual copy-pasting.

🎬 Full Demo

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	pasta	Keyword to search recipes by
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum number of recipes to return

Example - search for chicken recipes:

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

Example - scrape all recipes:

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

⚠️ Good to Know: Free users are limited to 10 recipes per run. Upgrade here to unlock up to 1,000,000 results.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🖼️ imageUrl	string	Recipe photo URL
📌 title	string	Recipe name
🔗 url	string	Full recipe URL
⏱️ totalTime	integer	Total time in minutes
🍽️ servings	integer	Number of servings
🧂 ingredients	array	Ingredient list with amounts
🏷️ tags	array	Course, cuisine, and tool tags
📊 difficulty	string	Easy / Intermediate / Advanced
🌐 source	string	Source website (KitchenAid)
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp
❌ error	string	Error message (if any)

Sample record:

{
    "imageUrl": "https://images.ctfassets.net/9hu0xqamys79/.../pasta-envy.jpg",
    "title": "Pasta Envy",
    "url": "https://www.kitchenaid.com/countertop-appliances/recipes/pasta-envy",
    "totalTime": 60,
    "servings": 4,
    "ingredients": [
        "1 tablespoon olive oil",
        "4 cloves garlic minced",
        "10 ounces baby spinach",
        "1 ripe avocado",
        "2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice"
    ],
    "tags": ["Pasta", "Blender"],
    "difficulty": "Easy",
    "source": "KitchenAid",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-22T01:55:46.872Z"
}

✨ Why Choose This Actor

• ✅ Real-time data - no cached or stale results
• ✅ Full ingredient lists with amounts and units
• ✅ Difficulty level and course tags included
• ✅ Automatic pagination - just set maxItems
• ✅ Clean JSON/CSV/Excel export
• ✅ No login or API key required
• ✅ Free tier available (10 items preview)

📈 How It Compares to Alternatives

Feature	This Actor	Manual scraping	Other scrapers
Real-time data	✅	✅	varies
Structured ingredients	✅	manual work	rarely
Pagination	✅	tedious	varies
Difficulty level	✅	manual	rarely
Setup time	< 1 min	hours	minutes

🚀 How to Use

1. Create a free Apify account (includes $5 free credit)
2. Open the Yummly Recipe Scraper actor
3. Enter your search query (e.g., pasta, chocolate cake)
4. Set maxItems to control how many recipes to return
5. Click Run and download your dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel

💼 Business Use Cases

Meal Planning Apps

Build ingredient-aware meal planners by importing structured recipes with serving sizes and cook times directly into your database.

Nutrition Research

Analyze ingredient frequency, dietary patterns, and recipe complexity across thousands of real-world tested recipes.

Recipe NLP Datasets

Train food entity recognition, ingredient parsing, or recipe classification models using the structured ingredient and tag data.

Culinary Content Creation

Quickly build recipe roundups, "best pasta recipes" articles, or comparison content using bulk-exported recipe data.

🔌 Automating Yummly Recipe Scraper

Connect this actor to Make, Zapier, or Slack using Apify's integrations:

• Make (Integromat) - trigger runs on a schedule and send new recipes to Google Sheets or Notion
• Zapier - pipe new recipe data into Airtable or Mailchimp
• Slack - get daily recipe suggestions posted to your team channel
• Google Sheets - auto-populate a recipe database with fresh data

🌟 Beyond Business Use Cases

Academic Research

Food science researchers can analyze ingredient co-occurrence, dietary patterns, and recipe complexity at scale.

Creative Projects

Generate recipe variation ideas, build a personal cookbook database, or power a recipe recommendation chatbot.

Non-profit and Community

Build free community recipe databases or food bank ingredient guides using public recipe data.

Experimentation

Test hypothesis about recipe trends - which ingredients appear together, how difficulty correlates with cook time, etc.

🤖 Ask an AI Assistant About This Scraper

Not sure how to use the data? Ask any AI assistant:

"I have a dataset of recipes in JSON format with title, ingredients, totalTime, servings, difficulty, and tags. How do I build a meal planner from this?"

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

What happened to Yummly.com? Yummly was acquired by Whirlpool/KitchenAid. The Yummly domain (yummly.com) now permanently redirects to KitchenAid's recipe section at kitchenaid.com/recipes. All recipe content is intact.

Does the scraper require login? No. All recipe data is publicly available - no account or API key needed.

How many recipes are available? Over 1,500 recipes are indexed, covering all categories from pasta to baking, soups, salads, and desserts.

Can I filter by category or dietary type? Use the searchQuery field to filter by keyword. For example: "vegan", "gluten free", "Italian", "chicken", "chocolate".

Are ingredients structured or just plain text? Ingredients are returned as structured strings with amount, unit, and name combined (e.g., "2 cups all-purpose flour").

Does it include nutrition information? The source site does not expose calorie or macro data in its recipe pages, so nutrition fields are not available.

Does it include ratings? KitchenAid's recipe pages do not expose user ratings, so this field is not included.

How fast does it run? Each recipe requires one detail page fetch for servings. At 10 items it runs in under 30 seconds; at 100 items expect 3-5 minutes.

Is the data updated in real time? Yes. Every run fetches live data from the source - no caching.

What export formats are available? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, and RSS - all available from the Apify dataset view.

🔌 Integrate with Any App

Apify connects this scraper to 1,500+ apps via native integrations:

Productivity: Google Sheets, Notion, Airtable, Coda Automation: Make, Zapier, n8n Storage: Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox Communication: Slack, Discord, Email Database: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB BI Tools: Power BI, Tableau, Looker

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This actor is an independent tool, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Yummly, KitchenAid, or Whirlpool. It accesses only publicly available recipe data. Use responsibly and in accordance with the site's terms of service.