mealime-export

Mealime Recipes Archive

Browse, search, and download a catalog of 2,761 Mealime recipes — ingredients, steps, photos, and macros included.

If this archive is useful to you, buy me a coffee.

Browse recipes

Open the recipe viewer →

In the viewer you can:

• Search recipes by name
• Filter by calories, protein, carbs, and fat (per serving)
• Open any recipe for ingredients, steps, cookware, and nutrition
• Print a recipe for the kitchen
• Download JSON or Download image for a single recipe
• Download full catalog (ZIP) for offline use

Download everything

Prefer a local copy? Grab the latest release:

Download mealime-export.zip

The ZIP includes all recipe JSON files, thumbnails, and the same static viewer.

You can also browse individual files in the recipes/ folder on GitHub.

What’s inside

Each recipe JSON file includes:

• Name, servings, and cook time
• Ingredient list with quantities
• Step-by-step instructions
• Cookware
• Nutrition data (calories, protein, carbs, fat, and more)

Matching photos live in thumbnails/.

For developers

This repo is a static export — no server required for the public viewer (hosted on GitHub Pages).

To run locally from this repository:

npm run build-index
npm run serve

Then open http://localhost:8080/viewer-app/. Do not open viewer-app/index.html directly from the filesystem; browsers block loading the recipe index that way.

Useful scripts:

Command	Purpose
npm run build-index	Regenerate viewer-app/recipes-index.json after recipe changes
npm run format-recipes	Pretty-print JSON files in recipes/
npm run serve	Local static server for development
npm run release v1.x.x	Create a GitHub release with a fresh ZIP

See viewer-app/README.md for viewer layout and GitHub Pages notes.