About Lady Recipes
Lady Recipes is a developer-oriented recipe API that indexes, normalizes, and serves structured recipe data from the web's best culinary sources. Built for hackers, food app developers, and data enthusiasts who need clean recipe data without the clutter.
The Mission
Recipe websites are packed with life stories, pop-ups, and ads between the ingredient list and the cooking instructions. Our mission is to strip away the noise and serve what matters — structured, machine-readable recipe data that developers can build upon. Whether you're building a meal planner, a grocery list app, or a dietary tracker, Lady Recipes gives you the foundation.
Key Features
Unified API
One consistent JSON schema across thousands of recipes from multiple sources. No more parsing different site structures.
Fast & Scalable
Built on Next.js, Neon, and Drizzle ORM. Server-rendered pages with instant API responses and PostgreSQL-powered full-text search.
Multi-Source
Aggregates recipes from Allrecipes, Food Network, Simply Recipes, Smitten Kitchen, and more premier culinary domains.
Open Crawler
Automated scrapers respect robots.txt and publisher guidelines. Every recipe includes a direct backlink to the original source.
Developer Friendly
RESTful endpoints with pagination, filtering by cuisine, category, source, and cooking time. Built for developers building food apps.
Open Source
The entire platform is open source. Contribute, fork, or self-host your own instance from the GitHub repository.