AllRecipes Detail Scraper

Overview

Extracts comprehensive recipe data from AllRecipes.com. Built with Puppeteer and Crawlee, this actor handles rate limiting and uses stealth techniques to reliably scrape details like ingredients, instructions, nutrition, and reviews.

Key Features

• Complete Recipe Data: Extracts name, author, description, dates, categories, and cuisine type.
• Ingredients & Instructions: Full lists with measurements and step-by-step cooking directions.
• Nutrition & Media: Nutritional facts, images, and video details.
• User Content: Ratings, reviews, and social sharing stats.
• Times & Servings: Preparation, cooking, and total times with serving size.
• Technical Reliability: Concurrent processing, memory-efficient handling, and anti-blocking measures.

How to Use

Provide a list of recipe URLs via the actor's input. The scraper will process them and output structured data to the dataset in your Apify storage.

Respect AllRecipes.com's terms of service and robots.txt. Consider adding delays between requests in your implementation.

Input/Output

Input Example (JSON):

{
  "recipeUrls": [
    "https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/14522/pizza-on-the-grill-i/"
  ]
}

Output Sample:
The actor returns data in a structured format, following schema.org types (Recipe, NewsArticle). Output is available in the Storage tab and can be downloaded as JSON, JSONL, Excel, CSV, HTML, or XML.

Example excerpt:

[
  {
    "recipeUrl": "https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/14522/pizza-on-the-grill-i/",
    "data": {
      "@context": "http://schema.org",
      "@type": ["Recipe", "NewsArticle"],
      "headline": "Pizza on the Grill",
      "datePublished": "1999-09-03T16:46:58.000-04:00",
      "author": [{"@type": "Person", "name": "Allrecipes Member"}],
      "description": "Pizza on the grill is a great way to make restaurant-quality pizza at home...",
      "image": { /* ImageObject details */ },
      "video": { /* VideoObject details */ },
      "publisher": { /* Organization details */ }
      // ... includes full ingredient lists, instructions, nutrition, reviews, etc.
    }
  }
]