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Download Food & Recipe Data
Scrape Yummly recipe & food data without violating the Yummly Terms of Service using a little-known technique involving HAR files. These allow you to record your web traffic while using Yummly in full accordance with their Terms of Service and then perform the scraping on the recording of your web traffic instead of on the actual Yummly website.
1. Browse Yummly Data
Head to Yummly’s Recipe Search Feature and run a search for whatever recipe, food, or content you’re looking to scrape. Once the results load, right click on the page and hit “Inspect” to open up developer tools which will begin recording your web traffic.
Now refresh the page to get Yummly to reload its data into your browser. Scroll down and then click the next button to browse through all the data you want to scrape.
2. Export & Download Data
Once you’re done browsing, find the “Network” tab in developer tools and click the down arrow labeled “Export HAR…” to download a HAR file containing all of the data captured while browsing the site in the previous step. Upload that file to the HAR File Web Scraper and it will parse out the data into downloadable groups. Find the group with the menu data in it and you’ll be able to download CSV files of the data you browsed in the previous step.