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🍽 Delish Scraper

🚀 Export Delish recipes to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML in seconds. No account, no login, no API key required.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-22 · 📊 19 fields per record · Thousands of recipes · Global coverage

The Delish Scraper extracts rich recipe data directly from delish.com - one of the most popular food and recipe websites in the world. It uses Delish's server-side rendered pages and JSON-LD structured data to collect accurate, complete recipe records including full ingredient lists, step-by-step instructions, nutrition info, ratings, and more.

Delish publishes thousands of original recipes tested in their professional kitchens, covering everything from quick weeknight dinners to elaborate holiday feasts. This scraper lets you collect that data at scale for research, apps, or business use - no web scraping expertise required.

Coverage: All publicly accessible recipe content on Delish.com including cooking, baking, drinks, seasonal specials, and trend-driven content. Search by keyword across the full recipe library.

📋 What the Delish Scraper does

• Searches Delish.com for recipes matching your query
• Extracts structured data from JSON-LD on each recipe page
• Falls back to page body data for recipes with incomplete structured data
• Returns complete recipe records: ingredients, instructions, timing, servings, calories, tags
• Handles pagination across multiple search result pages
• Respects free/paid usage limits automatically

💡 Why it matters: Delish is one of the most-visited food sites in the US, published by Hearst. Their recipes are professionally tested and written by trained chefs and food editors. This data is significantly higher quality than crowdsourced recipe sites.

🎬 Full Demo

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⚙️ Input

Example 1 - Quick search:

{
"searchQuery":"pasta",
"maxItems":10
}

Example 2 - Larger dataset:

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

⚠️ Good to Know: Free users are automatically limited to 10 items per run regardless of the maxItems value. Upgrade to a paid plan to scrape up to 1,000,000 recipes.

📊 Output

Each item in the dataset contains the following fields:

Sample record:

{
"imageUrl":"https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/pesto-chicken-index-65d6162224dec.jpg?crop=0.5622727272727273xw:1xh;center,top&resize=1200:*",
"title":"Pesto Chicken",
"description":"Looking for an easy date night dinner to impress? Look no further than this easy pesto chicken with homemade pesto and plenty of cheese.",
"author":"Mary Rupp",
"rating":5,
"reviewCount":1,
"ingredients":[
"2 c. tightly packed fresh basil leaves",
"1/2 c. extra-virgin olive oil",
"1/4 c. toasted pine nuts",
"2 cloves garlic, finely chopped",
"1 1/2 tsp. kosher salt, divided",
"1 oz. Parmesan, finely grated (about 1/2 c.)",
"1 tsp. fresh lemon juice",
"2 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breasts (3-4)",
"1/2 c. shredded mozzarella"
],
"instructions":[
"Preheat oven to 400°. In a food processor, process basil, oil, pine nuts, garlic, and 1/2 teaspoon salt until smooth...",
"Grease an 11\"-by-8\" baking dish with cooking spray. Pat chicken dry...",
"Bake chicken 20 minutes. Remove from oven and top with mozzarella..."
],
"prepTime":"15 min",
"cookTime":null,
"totalTime":"45 min",
"servings":"4 serving(s)",
"calories":"722 Calories",
"tags":["date night","easy chicken","weeknight meals","dinner","main dish","poultry"],
"category":"date night, easy chicken, weeknight meals, dinner, main dish, poultry",
"url":"https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a42476911/best-pesto-chicken-recipe/",
"publishedAt":"2023-01-12T21:14:45.091949-0500",
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-22T03:26:51.000Z",
"error":null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

📈 How it compares to alternatives

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account (includes $5 free credit)
2. Open the Delish Scraper actor page
3. Click Try for free
4. Enter your searchQuery (e.g. "pasta", "chocolate cake")
5. Set maxItems (default: 10)
6. Click Start and wait for the run to finish
7. Download results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💼 Business use cases

Recipe apps and websites

Build a recipe database for a meal planning app, cooking blog, or food delivery platform. Use the full ingredient lists and instructions to power search, filtering, and recommendation features.

Nutrition and diet tools

Collect calorie counts, serving sizes, and ingredient data to build meal trackers, macro calculators, or diet planning tools. All nutrition data comes directly from Delish's tested recipes.

Food trend analysis

Monitor which ingredients, cuisines, and cooking techniques are trending on one of the most-visited food sites in the US. The tags, category, and publishedAt fields enable time-series analysis.

AI training data

Use the structured instruction steps and ingredient lists to fine-tune language models for recipe generation, ingredient substitution suggestions, or cooking chatbots. Real, tested recipe text is significantly better than synthetic data.

🔌 Automating Delish Scraper

Connect this actor to your workflows using:

• Make (Integromat) - Schedule runs and send results to Google Sheets, Airtable, or any database
• Zapier - Trigger recipes export on a schedule and push to Notion, Slack, or email
• Apify API - Call the actor programmatically from any codebase
• Webhooks - Get notified when a run completes and process results automatically
• Apify Scheduler - Run daily or weekly to keep your recipe database fresh

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research and academia

Food scientists and nutritionists can use this data to study recipe evolution, regional cooking differences, or the nutritional profiles of popular published recipes.

Creative projects

Writers, photographers, and content creators can use recipe data to plan shoots, find seasonal inspiration, or identify gaps in their niche.

Non-profit and education

Nutrition educators can build free recipe tools for communities. Culinary schools can create searchable databases for students.

Personal projects

Download your own curated recipe collections, build a private recipe box, or power a Raspberry Pi cooking assistant.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

You can ask an AI assistant (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini):

"I have a JSON dataset of Delish recipes with fields: title, description, author, rating, reviewCount, ingredients, instructions, prepTime, totalTime, servings, calories, tags, category, url, publishedAt. Help me find recipes under 30 minutes with fewer than 10 ingredients."

Or:

"Analyze these Delish recipe records and identify which categories appear most frequently in the tags field."

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🤔 Does this require a Delish account?

No. All data is scraped from publicly available pages without any login.

🌍 What recipes are available?

All recipes publicly listed on Delish.com. This includes thousands of recipes across all categories.

📄 What formats can I export to?

CSV, Excel (XLSX), JSON, XML, and JSONL are all available from the Apify dataset view.

🔄 How fresh is the data?

Data is scraped in real-time each time you run the actor. There is no caching.

⏱ How fast is it?

In testing, 5 recipes complete in about 8-10 seconds. Larger runs scale proportionally.

💰 How much does it cost?

Free users get 10 recipes per run. Paid plans unlock up to 1,000,000 recipes per run with pay-per-result pricing.

🍳 Why is cookTime sometimes null?

Delish often omits a separate cook time in their structured data, providing only total time. When the underlying data reports 0 seconds for cook time, it is stored as null.

🔢 Why does calories show "722 Calories" instead of just 722?

This is the raw format from Delish's JSON-LD data. It preserves the original string including units.

📊 Can I get multiple pages of results?

Yes. The actor automatically paginates through search results to collect your requested number of items.

🔒 Is this legal?

This actor accesses only publicly available web pages. It does not bypass any authentication, rate limits, or terms of service restrictions beyond normal browser behavior.

❓ What if a recipe has no rating?

The rating and reviewCount fields will be null for recipes that have not yet received reviews.

🔑 Do I need an API key?

No API key is required. The actor runs entirely on Apify's infrastructure using your account.

🔌 Integrate with any app

This actor integrates with the full Apify ecosystem:

• Google Sheets - Export directly from the dataset
• Airtable - Use the Apify API to populate a base
• Slack - Get notified when a run completes
• Notion - Push recipe records to a database
• Make / Zapier - Build no-code automations
• REST API - Integrate with any backend
• Webhooks - Trigger workflows on completion
• CSV / Excel - One-click download for spreadsheet users

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⚠️ Disclaimer: Independent tool, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Delish or Hearst. Only publicly available content is collected. Use responsibly and in accordance with Delish's terms of service.