Recipe crawler for the popular HelloFresh meal-kit provider.

Supports crawling on US, GB and DE recipe archives that are publically available on www.hellofresh.com.

• Multi-Language Support: HelloFreshCrawler now supports recipes in English (GB), English (US), and German (DE).

• Automatic Retries: It attempts to download all recipes it finds with 3 retries, handling connection timeouts and other issues gracefully.

• Contributors:

  • @alexcodito (Author)
  • @kevinrodd

node index.js HelloFresh -l GB -s ./downloads

The above will download every PDF recipe card from the specified country's archive into the specified local directory.

• The HelloFresh API provides extensive JSON metadata, including ingredients, nutrition, units and ratings. Storing this in a document database could enable useful applications such as:

  • Generating grocery lists from selected recipes
  • Advanced search criteria (e.g. total cooking time, calories, excluding/including ingredients etc.)