Discover & Find Similar

Search other recipe sites from inside Recipery, either browsing for something new to cook or looking for another take on a recipe you already have.

Recipery can search other recipe sites without leaving the app — two ways in, same underlying search:

Discover — open-ended browsing when you don’t know what to cook yet
Find Similar — from a recipe already in your library, pull up other takes on it from the same sites

Both draw on the same list of sites, configured once in Settings → Recipe Discovery (admin only).

Add a source

Settings → Recipe Discovery ships with NYT Cooking, BBC Good Food, and BBC Food out of the box — add, remove, or reorder sites to fit what you actually use.

Open Discover from the sidebar and type what you’re after, or open Find Similar on a recipe — it searches using that recipe’s own title, no typing required.

Preview, then import

Tap a result to preview it — title, photo, ingredients, steps — before deciding whether it’s worth adding. Nothing joins your library until you import it.

Setting up sources

Each source is just a name and a search URL template with a {query} placeholder where the search term goes:

Name:            NYT Cooking
Search URL:      https://cooking.nytimes.com/search?q={query}&include_content=articles

Any site with a query-string search works — paste in its search URL with your test term swapped out for {query}. Drag to reorder; the order here is the tab order in Discover and Find Similar.

Discover

Open Discover in the sidebar, type a dish or ingredient, and hit search. With more than one source configured, results are split into tabs — one per site — so you can compare across all of them without leaving the drawer.

Find Similar

From a recipe’s menu, Find Similar searches every configured source using that recipe’s title as the query automatically — useful for comparing a recipe already in your library against other versions of it elsewhere, or finding a substitute when you don’t love the one you have.

How results are found

There’s no shared search API across recipe sites, so Recipery reads whatever structured data the site’s own search page already ships — the JSON data blob behind a server-rendered page (common on Next.js-based sites like NYT Cooking and BBC Good Food), or a generic schema.org ItemList, a common way for search pages to mark up a list of links for search engines. Neither is guaranteed to exist on a given site: if neither is found, that source’s tab shows an error with a link to open the search directly on the site instead of failing silently.

Importing a result

Opening a result’s preview scrapes it the same way as pasting its URL directly — same ingredients, steps, and photo extraction, same YouTube handling if the result happens to be a video. Importing from the preview adds it to your library like any other recipe.