Recipe Importer — Save Any Recipe From a URL
Paste a link, keep the recipe, lose the life story and the pop-ups.
Recipes you find online live in other people's websites, wrapped in autoplaying video and a thousand words of preamble. Bookmarking them means going back through all of that every time you cook. The importer pulls the actual recipe out of the page and keeps it in your own collection, where it behaves like every other recipe you have — plannable, shoppable, searchable.
Just the recipe
Ingredients and method, extracted from the page and saved in a consistent format. No scrolling past the anecdote, no cookie banner, no video that starts playing while your hands are covered in flour.
It joins everything else
An imported recipe is not a bookmark in a corner. It can go into your meal calendar, its ingredients can go to your grocery list, and it sits in your saved collection next to recipes from the site's own library.
Your collection outlives the source
Recipe sites reorganise, go behind paywalls and disappear. A recipe you have imported stays in your account regardless of what happens to the page you found it on — which, over a few years of cooking, matters more than it sounds.
What it can and cannot read
Import works best on pages that publish structured recipe data, which most established recipe sites do. Pages that hide the recipe behind a login, render it entirely in an image, or lay it out in an unusual way may import partially or not at all — you can correct anything that came through wrong before saving. Import recipes for your own use and respect the source's terms; this is a tool for keeping your own cooking notes, not for republishing someone else's work.
How it works
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Paste the link
Drop in the URL of any recipe page you want to keep.
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Check what came through
Review the extracted ingredients and steps, and fix anything the page laid out oddly.
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Save it and use it
Keep it in your collection, plan it into a day, or send its ingredients to your grocery list.
Frequently asked questions
Which sites can I import from?
Most established recipe sites, because they publish structured recipe data that can be read reliably. Pages behind a login or built as a single image are the usual failures.
Is importing a recipe legal?
Saving a copy for your own personal use is ordinary practice, much like writing it into a notebook. Republishing someone else's recipe text as your own is not, and this tool is built for the first case.
What if the import gets something wrong?
You can edit the ingredients and steps before saving. Odd page layouts sometimes scramble quantities, so a quick read-through is worth it.
Can I import from a video?
No. The importer reads recipe pages, not video content — if a recipe only exists as speech in a video, there is nothing structured on the page to extract.
Is it free?
Yes, importing recipes is free with an account.
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