Recipe & Cocktail Scraper

hipersoft/recipe-cocktail-scraper

Search thousands of recipes and cocktails: name, category, cuisine/area, full ingredient list with measures, step-by-step instructions, tags, thumbnail and video. Search by keyword or browse everything. One clean row per recipe or drink as JSON, CSV or Excel.

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Total users

Monthly users

Total runs

Per recipe scraped

$0.0015

Last rebuilt

Oct 26, 2026

Overview

Search thousands of recipes and cocktails and export them as clean, structured data. Look up meals or drinks by keyword, or browse the whole database A–Z — and get one row per item with name, category, cuisine, a full ingredient list with measures, step-by-step instructions, tags, a thumbnail and (for recipes) a video link. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull straight from the API.

Perfect for food and drink apps, recipe and menu content, meal-planning tools, nutrition projects, chatbots, and building culinary datasets for LLMs.

What you get

One flat, ready-to-use record per recipe or cocktail:

Field	Description
`id` / `type`	ID and `meal` or `cocktail`
`name`	Recipe / drink name
`category`	Category (e.g. Dessert, Cocktail)
`area`	Cuisine / region (recipes)
`alcoholic` / `glass`	Alcohol and glass type (cocktails)
`ingredients`	Array of `{ ingredient, measure }`
`instructions`	Step-by-step method
`tags`	Tags
`thumbnail`	Image URL
`youtube`	Video link (recipes)
`source`	Original recipe URL
`query`	The keyword that produced the row
`collectedAt`	When the row was scraped

How to use

{
  "type": "meals",
  "searchQueries": ["chicken", "pasta"],
  "maxItems": 200
}

What to scrape — Recipes (meals) or Cocktails (drinks).
Search keywords — each keyword runs its own search. Leave empty to browse the whole database A–Z.
Max items — cap the total (0 = no limit).

Example output

{
  "type": "meal",
  "name": "Mediterranean Pasta Salad",
  "category": "Seafood",
  "area": "Italian",
  "ingredients": [
    { "ingredient": "mozzarella balls", "measure": "200 g" },
    { "ingredient": "basil", "measure": "10 leaves" }
  ],
  "instructions": "Bring a large pot of salted water to the boil…",
  "thumbnail": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/media/meals/….jpg",
  "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…",
  "collectedAt": "2026-09-20T23:20:00.000Z"
}

Common use cases

Food & drink apps — power recipe search, menus and cocktail guides.
Meal planning & nutrition — pull ingredients and instructions at scale.
Content & SEO — build recipe and drink pages with images.
Chatbots & LLMs — feed structured recipes to cooking assistants.
Datasets — assemble clean culinary datasets for analysis or training.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need any login, account or key? No. Just pick recipes or cocktails and run.

Do I get the full ingredient list? Yes — each row has an ingredients array with each ingredient and its measure, plus full instructions.

Can I get cocktails too? Yes — set What to scrape to Cocktails.

Can I get everything, not just a search? Yes — leave the keywords empty to browse the whole database A–Z.

What format is the data? A flat table you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or fetch from the Apify API.

Related scrapers

Building a food or lifestyle toolkit? Check out our other content and data scrapers on Apify Store — all with the same clean, one-row-per-item output.

Input

Field	Type	Description
`type` What to scrape	string · meals, cocktails	Recipes (meals) or cocktails (drinks). Default: `"meals"`
`searchQueries` Search keywords	array	Names to search for — e.g. 'chicken', 'pasta', 'margarita'. Each keyword runs its own search. Leave empty to browse the whole database A–Z.
`maxItems` Max items	integer	Maximum number of recipes/drinks to collect (0 = no limit). Default: `100`

API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/hipersoft~recipe-cocktail-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "chicken"
  ]
}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("hipersoft/recipe-cocktail-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchQueries": [
        "chicken"
    ]
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('hipersoft/recipe-cocktail-scraper').call({
  "searchQueries": [
    "chicken"
  ]
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Pricing

Event	Price	Paid plans from
Recipe scraped Charged for each recipe or cocktail returned.	$0.0015	$0.0008

You pay only for what the run returns. Set a maximum cost per run and it stops cleanly at that limit.

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