Recipe Importer — Paste a URL, Photo, or Screenshot to 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 (free articles), Bon Appétit, Serious Eats, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube — subscription-gated pages use screenshot import instead. 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.
No URL? Import via screenshot → — works for cookbooks, subscriptions you already have, and handwritten cards.
Works with AllRecipes, NYT Cooking (free articles), Bon Appétit, TikTok, YouTube, and 40+ other public sites — subscription-gated pages need screenshot import instead. Free, no account needed.
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Shop on Instacart →Paste a URL — get a structured ingredient list
Drop any recipe URL into AislePrompt's chat or import field. The parser fetches that specific external page and structures it for you:
- Every ingredient from the source page, with quantities and units normalized (e.g. "1½ cups" not "1.5 c") — exact when the source publishes Recipe schema, estimated for video captions and spoken amounts
- Servings, prep time, and cook time, when the source publishes them
- Step-by-step cooking instructions, in the source author's order
The output is a structured copy of the URL you pasted — not a recommendation, not a ranked match against your pantry. The imported recipe saves to your AislePrompt account, or to browser localStorage in guest mode.
Drop a screenshot or photo — same structured output
Screenshot import is a first-class input mode, not a fallback. Drag-and-drop a screenshot into the import field, or tap the camera icon on mobile to snap the page in front of you — the vision model OCRs the image and returns the same structured ingredient list as a URL import:
- Drag-and-drop from your desktop, or paste a screenshot directly from your clipboard (⌘V / Ctrl+V)
- Camera capture on mobile — point at a cookbook page, printed card, chalkboard, or phone screen
- Ingredients + quantities + steps parsed via vision OCR, normalized into the same schema as URL imports
- The parsed recipe saves straight to your collection — glance over the quantities before you shop it
Works for printed cookbooks, recipes from subscriptions you already have, handwritten cards, screenshots from friends' texts, Instagram story recipes, and any recipe you can point a camera at. Non-English source? The vision model handles translated OCR — check the converted quantities on the saved recipe.
Sites we parse cleanly
AislePrompt handles 40+ recipe sources directly, including:
- AllRecipes, NYT Cooking (free-access articles), Bon Appétit, 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. NYT Cooking subscriber-only 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 check the ingredient quantities on the saved recipe before you shop it.
TikTok and Instagram Reels — caption + transcript parsing
Short-form cooking content rarely lists ingredients formally. AislePrompt pulls the caption, transcribes the audio, and extracts the implied ingredient list from both. Spoken amounts ('a splash', 'a handful') are estimates, so check them on the saved recipe. The result is a structured recipe you can scale, save, and shop.
The full imported recipe — every ingredient, every quantity
Recipe Importer hands you the complete ingredient list for the dish you pasted — not a ranked subset, not a gap calculation. From there, the standard AislePrompt grocery flow takes over: send the list to Instacart or merge it with other imports. Multi-recipe consolidation and the Instacart handoff live on the Shopping List page; you pick the store on Instacart once the cart opens — Recipe Importer's job ends once the dish is parsed.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How accurate is the URL parser?
Sites that publish JSON-LD Recipe schema (most major recipe sites) parse most reliably, because the ingredients and quantities are already structured. For blog posts without structured data, the parser falls back to LLM extraction. The recipe saves as soon as it is parsed, so glance over the quantities on the saved recipe before you shop it.
What recipe sites are supported?
40+ sources including AllRecipes, NYT Cooking (free-access articles; use screenshot import for subscriber recipes), Bon Appétit, 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 from a cookbook or a subscription I already have?
Yes — take a screenshot or a photo of the page and drop it into AislePrompt. The vision model OCRs ingredients and instructions into the same structured format as a URL import. Subscriber-only recipe URLs cannot be fetched directly, so screenshot import is the way to bring in recipes from a subscription you pay for.
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. Check any spoken amounts on the saved recipe before you shop it.
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. Saved imports show up in your recipe library alongside any URL-imported or screenshot-imported dishes from earlier sessions.
Is the recipe importer free?
Yes — free, no credit card required. No trial timer, no usage caps. Both URL and screenshot import are unmetered.
