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title: "Discover & Find Similar"
description: "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."
---

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# Discover & Find Similar

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).

1. **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.
2. **Search**

   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.
3. **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:

```text
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](/features/import) — 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.

Source: https://docs.recipery.dev/features/discover/index.mdx