SimplyRecipes Scraper
Spider read simplyrecipes.com in 524 ms without a browser and returned 292 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "It's Too Hot To Cook", "Food News" and "Start With Rotisserie Chicken".
Expert Contributors & Recipe Developers14 30-Minute Retro Dinner Recipes## It's Too Hot To CookThis 5-Ingredient Strawberry-Cucumber Salad Is All I Want on Hot Summer Days 15 minsThe No-Bake Lemon Tiramisu I Bring to Every Summer Party 20 minsMy Grandma Winnie’s Tomato and Cucumber Salad Is My Favorite Summer Dish 10 minsSimply Recipes is a trusted resource for home cooks with more than 3,600 tested recipes, guides, and meal plans, drawing over 8 million readers each month from around the world. We’re supported by a group of recipe developers, food writers, recipe and product testers, photographers, and other creative professionals.Megan O. Steintrager Associate Editorial DirectorSarah Crowder Senior Digital Art DirectorAfton Cyrus Senior Editor, RecipesMunni Pramanik Editorial Projects ManagerLara Eucalano Senior Editor, News & TrendsWanda Abraham Senior Visual EditorHaley Scarpino Associate Editor, News & TrendsVictoria Seaver Associate General ManagerVictoria Heydt Senior Director, Food Operations## Who We AreFor over 20 years, Simply Recipes’ mission has been to help take the stress out of feeding your family. Whether you’re cooking for a crew of two or the whole Brady bunch, we offer trusted, family-friendly recipes and practical cooking advice to make mealtimes easier.## Food NewsPlease Stop Adding This Ingredient to Pizza (It’s Not Pineapple)If Your Nuts Smell Like Old Crayons, Toss Them Out ImmediatelyI Stopped Boiling Pasta in a Large Pot—This Is Faster and Easier## Start With Rotisserie ChickenRotisserie Chicken Stroganoff 40 minsThe 5-Ingredient Chicken Dinner I’m Making on Repeat Until SpringThe Easy 4-Ingredient Pasta Bake I Make After a Rough Day 40 minsThis Is the Easiest and Tastiest Rotisserie Chicken Dinner I've Ever MadeOur Most Popular Dinner That Starts With a Rotisserie ChickenThe Easy Berry Cake I’m Making All Summer Long 1 hr 45 minsThe same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on simplyrecipes.com.
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.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/easy_baked_chicken_thighs/");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/easy_baked_chicken_thighs/");
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(),
prepTime: 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();Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What simplyrecipes.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000764 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
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