Chefkoch Recipe Scraper
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Chefkoch Recipe Scraper
Scrape recipes from Chefkoch.de — Germany's largest recipe community with 380,000+ recipes. Extracts full structured data per recipe including ingredients, step-by-step instructions, nutrition facts, ratings, and Chefkoch-specific fields (Schwierigkeitsgrad, Portionen).
What you get
Each recipe record includes:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
recipe_id |
Chefkoch numeric recipe ID |
url |
Canonical recipe URL (with slug) |
name |
Recipe title in German |
author |
Community author username |
description |
Short recipe description |
recipe_category |
Category (e.g. Tarte/Quiche, Kochen, Backen) |
recipe_cuisine |
Cuisine type (e.g. Deutsch, Frankreich, Thai) |
difficulty |
simpel / normal / pfiffig (Chefkoch-specific) |
prep_time |
Preparation time (ISO 8601 duration) |
total_time |
Total cooking time (ISO 8601 duration) |
recipe_yield |
Servings (Portionen) |
recipe_ingredients |
Full ingredient list with quantities |
recipe_instructions |
Step-by-step cooking instructions |
aggregate_rating |
Average star rating (1–5) |
rating_count |
Number of ratings |
review_count |
Number of written reviews |
nutrition_calories |
Calories per serving (where published) |
nutrition_protein |
Protein content per serving |
nutrition_fat |
Fat content per serving |
nutrition_carbs |
Carbohydrate content per serving |
keywords |
Tags and keywords |
image_url |
Primary recipe image URL |
date_published |
Publication date (ISO 8601) |
Use cases
- German LLM training data — The largest German-language recipe corpus (380K+ community recipes) for multilingual food-domain RAG or fine-tuning.
- Meal planning apps — Build DACH-market recipe applications with full ingredient lists and structured cooking steps.
- Food trend analytics — Track rating trends, popular ingredients, and difficulty distribution across the German cooking community.
- Recipe aggregators — Bulk export for cross-platform recipe comparison or culinary research.
How to use
Bulk export (all recipes)
Leave Search Query empty to export the full corpus. Set Max Items to control the batch size or leave blank for all 380,000+ recipes.
{
"maxItems": 1000
}
Keyword search
Use Search Query to filter recipes by keyword (German or English terms both work):
{
"maxItems": 50,
"searchQuery": "Lasagne"
}
Other examples: Kuchen, Pasta, vegan, Weihnachten, schnell
Technical notes
- Source: Chefkoch public API (
api.chefkoch.de/v2/recipes) for pagination + recipe HTML pages for full structured data via schema.org/Recipe JSON-LD - Rate limiting: Conservative 200ms delay between API requests
- Proxy: Datacenter IPs sufficient — no Cloudflare or geo-lock on Chefkoch
- Language: All field values are in German (no machine translation applied per source spec)