Cookpad Scraper: recipes with ingredients, steps and counts from Japan, the US, Brazil, Indonesia and Germany

Cookpad Scraper collects recipes from cookpad.com without an account or a browser. Each recipe comes back as one clean row: title, description, every ingredient with its amount, the numbered steps, the cook's tip, servings, the main photo, the author's display name and profile link, publish and update dates, and the number of saves, reactions and cooksnaps.

It is built for recipe databases and meal apps, food trend and ingredient research, nutrition and grocery projects, and datasets for AI training and RAG on cooking.

At a glance

What	Price
Recipe delivered	US$ 3.00 per 1,000 recipes (US$ 0.003 each)
Run start	US$ 0.005 per run

• 500 recipes = US$ 1.505.
• Error rows, duplicates, premium recipes and recipes you already received in earlier runs (onlyNew) are never charged. maxItems is a hard cap, and a spending limit set on the run stops it cleanly with everything delivered so far.
• Beyond the search limit: a single Cookpad search stops after about 10,000 recipes even when the site says it has more (its "curry" search lists 100,360 recipes in Japan). This Actor splits a big keyword into slices that never overlap, so one run can deliver far more than 10,000 recipes for the same word.

Quick start

{
  "keywords": ["ナス"],
  "country": "jp",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Another country (keywords in that country's language):

{
  "keywords": ["chicken", "pasta"],
  "country": "us",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Everything Cookpad Japan has for one word, past the 10,000 limit:

{
  "keywords": ["カレー"],
  "country": "jp",
  "maxItems": 30000,
  "splitSearch": true,
  "includeDetails": false
}

Specific recipes or search pages by link:

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://cookpad.com/jp/recipes/26759158",
    "https://cookpad.com/jp/search/%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B9"
  ]
}

With no input at all the Actor runs the Japanese example above (recipes for ナス, eggplant).

Input

Field	What it does
keywords	One search per keyword, in the language of the chosen country. Newest recipes first.
country	jp (default), us, br, id or de.
startUrls	Recipe links (https://cookpad.com/jp/recipes/<number>) and search links (https://cookpad.com/jp/search/<keyword>).
includeDetails	On (default): full recipe rows. Off: only id, link and title from the search list, much faster.
splitSearch	On (default): when you ask for more than about 9,900 recipes for one keyword, the search is split into non-overlapping slices. No effect on smaller requests.
maxItems	Stop after this many recipes (default 50, 0 = no cap).
onlyNew	Skip recipes delivered in earlier runs with the same input. Handy for schedules.
proxyConfiguration	Datacenter connection by default.

Aliases accepted so inputs written for other tools keep working: searchQuery, query, searchTerms, urls, limit, maxResults, countryCode, onlyNewItems.

Output fields

Field	What it holds
type	recipe (or error on a free error row).
id, url, country	Recipe id, link and country site.
title, description	Recipe name and the author's intro.
imageUrl	Main photo.
servings	Servings as written (for example "2 servings").
ingredients, ingredientsCount	Each ingredient with its amount, and how many.
steps, stepsCount	The method, one text per step, in order.
tip	The author's tip, when there is one.
authorName, authorUrl	Public display name and profile link of the recipe's author. Nothing else about the author.
publishedAt, modifiedAt	Dates (YYYY-MM-DD).
savesCount, reactionsCount, cooksnapsCount	How many people saved, reacted to and cooked the recipe (counts only).
sourceQuery	The keyword or link that found it.
queryTotalOnSite	How many recipes Cookpad says exist for that search.
scrapedAt, errorCode, error	When it was read, and error details on error rows.

With includeDetails off, only id, url, title, country, sourceQuery and queryTotalOnSite are filled.

Example output

One recipe from the first quick start (ナス, Japan):

{
  "type": "recipe",
  "id": "26733248",
  "url": "https://cookpad.com/jp/recipes/26733248",
  "country": "jp",
  "title": "茄子だけで！ご飯が進み[茄子の生姜焼き]",
  "description": "ティックトックで取り込み保存に成功したレシピです。最近は余り取り込み保存出来ていないので数少ない貴重なレシピです。ポイ活も面倒くさくて余り出来ていないので投稿よりも以前のように、つくれぽばかりになりそうです。おろし生姜は私はチューブの生姜を代用しております😊♥",
  "imageUrl": "https://img-global-jp.cpcdn.com/recipes/57a8e86cb341b8a5/1360x1562f0.5_0.5_1.0q80/%E8%8C%84%E5%AD%90%E3%81%A0%E3%81%91%E3%81%A7%E3%81%94%E9%A3%AF%E3%81%8C%E9%80%B2%E3%81%BF%E8%8C%84%E5%AD%90%E3%81%AE%E7%94%9F%E5%A7%9C%E7%84%BC%E3%81%8D-%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%94-%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3-%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F.jpg",
  "servings": "2〜4人分",
  "ingredients": [
    "茄子 3本 ３本（長茄子なら2本）",
    "ごま油 大さじ3〜4",
    "片栗粉 大さじ1弱",
    "水 大さじ1と1/2",
    "醤油 大さじ1と1/2",
    "みりん 大さじ1と1/2",
    "砂糖 大さじ1/2",
    "すりおろし生姜 1片分"
  ],
  "ingredientsCount": 8,
  "steps": [
    "茄子を斜め切りにして水に3〜5分程さらす。",
    "その間に(A)を混ぜ合わせてタレを作る。",
    "茄子の水気をキッチンペーパーなどで拭う。茄子の表面に片栗粉を薄くまぶす。",
    "フライパンにごま油をしき、中火で茄子を炒める。",
    "両面に焼き色がついたら、タレを回しかけて茄子と絡める。",
    "器に盛り付けて完成です。"
  ],
  "stepsCount": 6,
  "tip": "工程5の時にフライパンに油が残っている場合は綺麗にキッチンペーパーで拭き取って下さい。タレが絡みやすくなります。すぐに食べる場合はアク抜きの工程を省略しても大丈夫です。",
  "authorName": "N S",
  "authorUrl": "https://cookpad.com/jp/users/113587942",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-19",
  "modifiedAt": "2026-10-19",
  "savesCount": 32,
  "reactionsCount": 17,
  "cooksnapsCount": 0,
  "sourceQuery": "ナス",
  "queryTotalOnSite": 133138,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T18:01:41Z",
  "errorCode": null,
  "error": null
}

What you can build with it

• Recipe apps and meal planners: a clean list of ingredients with amounts and numbered steps for every dish, ready to load into a database or a search index.
• Ingredient and trend research: count which ingredients appear together, which dishes gain saves and reactions, and what home cooks publish each week. Run a keyword on a schedule with onlyNew and follow the newest recipes.
• Grocery, delivery and food-tech projects: match recipes to products by ingredient, build shopping lists, or compare how the same dish is cooked in Japan, the United States, Brazil, Indonesia and Germany.
• AI training and RAG on cooking: one row per recipe with plain text ingredients and steps, in five languages.

How the search limit works

Cookpad shows how many recipes match a word (for example 100,360 for カレー in Japan) but a single search only lets you page through about 10,000 of them. For bigger pulls, leave splitSearch on and set maxItems above 9,900. The Actor then cuts the word into slices (the word plus a common ingredient or dish type, then the word without any of them). A recipe belongs to exactly one slice, so nothing is delivered or charged twice. Big slices still stop at their own 10,000, which is why the total can reach tens of thousands of recipes for one word.

For a smaller, sharper dataset skip the splitting and use two or three specific keywords instead, such as ナス 炒め. Several words in one keyword are all required to match.

Tips

• Use includeDetails: false first to see how many recipes a keyword has and to collect ids quickly, then run the detailed version on the keywords that matter.
• The newest recipes come first, so a small maxItems with onlyNew on a daily schedule is the cheapest way to follow a topic.
• Keywords must be in the language of the country you picked. A Japanese keyword on the Brazilian site finds few or no recipes.
• A link to a search page works too: paste the address of any page and the Actor reads its recipes.

Errors

Error rows are free and carry errorCode: INVALID_INPUT (a field is wrong), INVALID_URL (not a Cookpad recipe or search link), NOT_FOUND (the recipe does not exist or was removed), NO_RESULTS (the search has no recipes), BLOCKED (the site stopped answering; everything found so far was delivered, run again in a few minutes), NOT_REACHED (the run timeout came first).

Integrations, scheduling and AI agents

• Schedules: run daily or weekly with onlyNew on to receive just the new recipes.
• Export: download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML from the run page, or read it through the Apify API.
• No-code tools: connect to Make, n8n, Zapier or Google Sheets with the Apify integrations and send each recipe to your database, spreadsheet or CMS.
• AI agents: call the Actor from the Apify MCP server so an assistant can search recipes by ingredient or dish and read the ingredients and steps directly.

FAQ

How many recipes can I get for one word? Up to about 10,000 per search, and far more with splitSearch on and a high maxItems: the Actor reports in the log and in queryTotalOnSite how many recipes the site lists.

Are premium recipes included? No. Recipes Cookpad sells as premium are left out and never charged.

Which languages do I get? The language of the country site: Japanese, English, Portuguese, Indonesian or German.

Do you collect comments or cooksnap texts? No. Only the counts.

What about the author? Only the public display name and the profile link that Cookpad shows on the recipe.

Limitations

• Five country sites are supported: Japan, the United States, Brazil, Indonesia and Germany.
• Premium recipes are skipped.
• Counts of saves, reactions and cooksnaps are 0 when Cookpad shows none.
• Cooking time and nutrition are not shown on the recipe pages, so they are not in the output.
• Keep maxItems and the schedule reasonable: the Actor reads at a gentle pace, so a 10,000-recipe run takes hours.

Changelog

• 23 Oct 2026: first version.