Paste a URL
Any page that publishes a recipe — most cooking sites do — or a YouTube video link.
Recipery scrapes it
Title, ingredients, steps, servings, prep/cook time, cuisine, tags, and the hero photo, pulled from the page automatically.
Review and save
The imported recipe lands in your library like any other — edit anything before or after saving.
How it works
- Recipery reads the schema.org
RecipeJSON-LD most recipe sites already embed for Google’s rich-results snippets — no site-specific scraper needed - If the page has no
RecipeJSON-LD, the import fails with an error rather than guessing - The hero photo is downloaded and stored alongside the recipe; if the photo fails to download, the import still succeeds without one
- The imported recipe records its source (site or author name) and the original URL, shown on the recipe itself
Importing from YouTube
A YouTube link doesn’t carry Recipe JSON-LD like a cooking site does,
so it’s handled differently: Recipery pulls the title and channel name
from YouTube’s oEmbed endpoint, grabs a clean thumbnail straight from the
video ID, and attaches the video to the recipe (see
Video) — that part always works.
As a bonus, it also scans the video’s description for a recipe, since cooking channels often paste one in. It looks for lines shaped like an ingredient (“500g flour”, “1 tsp salt”) and numbered steps (“1. Preheat the oven”), skipping timestamps, links, and promotional text. When it finds something, those become the recipe’s ingredients and steps; when it doesn’t, they’re left empty for you to fill in from the video. Either way, double-check what comes in — description formatting varies a lot from channel to channel.
Prefer typing a recipe in yourself, or a site doesn’t publish structured data? See Library & Recipes for adding one by hand.
Don’t have a URL in mind yet? Discover & Find Similar searches recipe sites for you, right from the library.