Add
You can add a recipe by clicking the blue Add Recipe in the middle of the application bar.
Adding Recipes
You will be presented with four different ways of adding a recipe to your collection.
Manual
The simplest method of inputting a recipe involves completing a form that outlines your dish. Mandatory fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).
You might find these shortcuts useful if you are filling the form from your computer.
Shortcut | How to enable | Result |
---|---|---|
Enter | Focus on an ingredient text input | Add ingredient row |
Ctrl + Enter | Focus on an instruction text area | Add instruction row |
You can also reorder the ingredients and the instructions by dragging the arrow vertically.
Scan
You can upload an image or a scan of a handwritten or printed recipe to add it to your collection. This option is useful for digitizing your and your family’s paper recipes.
To do so, click the Upload button and select an image in your computer.
You can upload files in the following formats:
- Images (JPEG/JPG, PNG, BMP, HEIF)
- TIFF
Website
You can import any recipe from the supported websites. To do so, click the Fetch button, paste the recipe’s URL or URLs, each on a new line, and click Submit. A notification will appear when the operation finished.
Its action button performs an action based on the outcome. When you imported one URL and the operation succeeds, the action will redirect you to the recipe. Otherwise, you will be redirected to the latest report.
To view all supported websites, please click on the supported word. You can scrape a website not in the supported list, but recipe extraction may fail. If it does, you can request support for the website by clicking the button that appears.
Import
You can import recipes in the following formats:
.json
: If they adhere to the Recipe schema standard.mxp
: Exported recipes from MasterCook.paprikarecipes
: Exported recipes from Paprika in thePaprika Recipe Format
.txt
.zip
You can upload either a single file or a zip archive containing multiple recipes. The recipes in a zip file may be
organized by folder. Each folder may contain the .json
recipe file and an image file. All other files in a folder
will be ignored during processing. Here is an example of
how such zip may look like.
You may also upload exported recipes from the following applications:
- MasterCook
- Paprika
- Recipe Keeper
Recipya Bookmarklet
The Recipya bookmarklet allows a user to run a JavaScript snippet from their browser that extracts a recipe from a webpage.
It’s for websites that both:
- can’t be scraped via a server request, i.e. have something like captcha or bot detection
- that have json+ld recipe script snippets on their page
To get the bookmarklet:
- Access
/recipes/add
- Bookmark the
Recipya Bookmarklet
link in theImport
card.
To use it:
- Open a recipe webpage, e.g. double banana nut bread
- Click the bookmarklet
- A JSON file is downloaded when it succeeds.
You can then import the extracted recipe from Add recipe -> Import
.