Serious Eats Scraper

Extract science-driven recipes, technique guides, equipment reviews, and food lab articles from Serious Eats. Built on spider-browser .

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target
seriouseats.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/seriouseats.com/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/seriouseats.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://seriouseats.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "recipe_name": "string",
    "author": "string",
    "rating": "string",
    "prep_time": "string",
    "cook_time": "string",
    "ingredients": "string",
    "technique_notes": "string",
    "servings": "string"
  }
}

# Serious Eats Scraper

**Recipe name**: string
**Author**: string
**Rating**: string
**Prep time**: string
**Cook time**: string
**Ingredients**: string
**Technique notes**: string
**Servings**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from seriouseats.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

serious-eats-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.seriouseats.com/the-best-slow-cooked-italian-american-tomato-sauce-red-sauce-recipe");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const recipe = {
    title: document.querySelector("h1.heading__title")?.textContent?.trim(),
    author: document.querySelector("[rel='author'], a[href*='/cook/'], [itemprop='author']")?.textContent?.trim(),
    rating: document.querySelector("[aria-label*='star'], [data-testid*='rating'], [class*='rating'] span")?.textContent?.trim(),
    totalTime: document.querySelector("[itemprop='totalTime'], [class*='time'] [class*='value']")?.textContent?.trim(),
    ingredients: [],
  };
  document.querySelectorAll("[itemprop='recipeIngredient'], li[class*='ingredient']").forEach(el => {
    recipe.ingredients.push(el.textContent?.trim());
  });
  return JSON.stringify(recipe);
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/seriouseats.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/seriouseats.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/seriouseats.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);