---
title: "Import from a URL"
description: "Paste a recipe URL and Recipery scrapes the title, ingredients, steps, and photo automatically."
---

> Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.recipery.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Import from a URL

1. **Paste a URL**

   Any page that publishes a recipe — most cooking sites do.
2. **Recipery scrapes it**

   Title, ingredients, steps, servings, prep/cook time, cuisine, tags,
   and the hero photo, pulled from the page automatically.
3. **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 `Recipe`](https://schema.org/Recipe)
  JSON-LD most recipe sites already embed for Google's rich-results
  snippets — no site-specific scraper needed
- If the page has no `Recipe` JSON-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

> **Identify your requests**
>
> Set `RECIPERY_CONTACT` (an email or contact URL) on the server — it's
> sent as part of the `User-Agent` on every import request, so sites
> seeing a lot of your imports have a way to reach you if something looks
> off. See the environment reference in
> [Deploy with Docker](/deployment/docker#environment-reference).

Prefer typing a recipe in yourself, or a site doesn't publish structured
data? See [Library & Recipes](/features/library) for adding one by hand.

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