Recipe Importer — Paste Any URL and Get a Structured Ingredient List
Paste a recipe URL — or drop a screenshot — and AislePrompt extracts every ingredient with quantities and units, ready to send to Instacart or save as a clean recipe card. Works on 40+ recipe sites including AllRecipes, NYT Cooking, Bon Appétit, Serious Eats, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube. Starting from ingredients you already own? Cook With What You Have is the right tool — it ranks AislePrompt's recipe catalog by how many of your pantry items each recipe uses, instead of importing a specific dish you've already chosen.
Free, no account needed. Supports AllRecipes, NYT Cooking, Bon Appétit, TikTok, YouTube, and 40+ other recipe sites.
Paste a URL — get a structured ingredient list
Drop any recipe URL into AislePrompt's chat or import field. The parser fetches the page and extracts:
- Every ingredient with exact quantities and units, normalized (e.g. "1½ cups" not "1.5 c")
- Servings, prep time, and cook time
- Step-by-step cooking instructions
The result saves as a clean recipe card in your account (or browser, in guest mode) — reusable across meal plans, grocery lists, and the Instacart handoff.
Sites we parse cleanly
AislePrompt handles 40+ recipe sources directly, including:
- AllRecipes, NYT Cooking, Bon Appetit, Serious Eats, Food Network
- Epicurious, Smitten Kitchen, Half Baked Harvest
- TikTok recipe videos (caption + voice transcript parsing)
- Instagram Reels, YouTube cooking videos (transcript parsing)
- Reddit recipes, blog posts, Substack newsletters, generic JSON-LD pages
Known limitations: Sites that require a subscription login to view recipes (e.g. some NYT Cooking articles, Food52 Pro) cannot be fetched by URL — use screenshot import instead. Sites that load recipe content entirely via client-side JavaScript without server HTML (rare) may also fall back to screenshot mode. Handwritten cards and non-English sources work via screenshot import, but ingredient quantities may need manual confirmation before saving.
Screenshot import for paywalls and printed cards
Some recipe sites paywall their content or block scrapers. Drop a screenshot of the recipe — from a paywalled article, a printed cookbook page, a friend's Instagram story, or a handwritten card — and the vision model OCRs the ingredients and instructions into the same structured format as a URL import.
TikTok and Instagram Reels — caption + transcript parsing
Short-form cooking content rarely lists ingredients formally. AislePrompt pulls the caption, runs a transcript through the audio, and extracts the implied ingredient list from both — then prompts you to confirm any ambiguous quantities. The result is a structured recipe you can scale, save, and shop.
One tap to grocery list — the full recipe, not just gaps
You've chosen a specific dish from an external source — Recipe Importer sends the complete ingredient set to your shopping list, not a ranked selection of what you might be missing. Here's what happens:
- Every ingredient from the imported recipe — with exact quantities — lands on your running shopping list
- One more tap sends a fully populated cart to Instacart at your preferred retailer
- Import multiple recipes into the same list and they consolidate automatically (e.g. "1 lemon + 2 lemons = 3 lemons"), detailed on the Shopping List page
Recipe Importer is for dishes you've already found and chosen outside AislePrompt — you get the whole ingredient list. If you'd rather browse AislePrompt's catalog by what you already own and order only the missing items, that's a different workflow: Cook With What You Have → Order only the gap.
Free, no signup
Importing recipes works in guest mode — paste a URL or drop a screenshot and the parsed recipe saves to your browser's localStorage. Sign in with Google only if you want imports to sync across devices or share with your household. If your starting point is ingredients you already own rather than an external recipe URL, see Cook With What You Have for pantry-first recipe matching.
Frequently Asked Questions
How accurate is the URL parser?
For sites that publish JSON-LD Recipe schema (most major recipe sites), accuracy is near-100% on ingredients and quantities. For blog posts without structured data, the parser falls back to LLM extraction with ~95% accuracy on ingredient lines. Quantities are confirmed in the UI before the recipe saves so you can correct anything ambiguous.
What recipe sites are supported?
40+ sources including AllRecipes, NYT Cooking, Bon Appetit, Serious Eats, Food Network, Smitten Kitchen, Half Baked Harvest, Epicurious, plus social sources (TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube). The generic JSON-LD parser handles most other recipe blogs automatically. If a site fails, screenshot import is the fallback.
Can I import a recipe behind a paywall?
Yes — use screenshot import. Take a screenshot of the recipe (or the printed page) and drop it into AislePrompt. The vision model OCRs ingredients and instructions into the same structured format as a URL import.
Does it work for TikTok and Instagram cooking videos?
Yes. Paste the share link and AislePrompt parses both the caption and the audio transcript, then surfaces the implied ingredient list. You confirm quantities for anything ambiguous.
Where do imported recipes get saved?
Signed-in users: in your AislePrompt account, syncing across devices and shared with household members. Guests: in your browser's localStorage on this device only. Either way, every imported recipe is reusable across meal plans, grocery lists, and the Instacart handoff.
Is the recipe importer free?
Yes — free, no credit card required. No trial timer, no usage caps. Both URL and screenshot import are unmetered.
