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Import a recipe from a website

Send any recipe link from Safari to recipes.im. Works with food blogs, cooking magazines, and most recipe sites.

Most recipes online are on food blogs, cooking magazine sites, or paywalled cookbooks. The Safari share sheet on iPhone is the fastest way to send any of them into recipes.im — usually one tap.

  1. 1

    Open the recipe in Safari

    Browse to any recipe page on iPhone. Most food blogs work — Serious Eats, Bon Appétit, NYT Cooking, BBC Good Food, Smitten Kitchen, personal blogs, anything with a public URL.

  2. 2

    Tap the Share button

    It's the square-with-arrow icon at the bottom of Safari (or the URL bar on iPad).

    Tapping the Share button at the bottom of Safari
  3. 3

    Choose Recipes from the share sheet

    Scroll the row of app icons until you see the Recipes icon. Tap it.

    Recipes app shown in the iOS share sheet
  4. 4

    Wait for the recipe to land

    The app opens, shows a watercolor loading sticker, and parses the page. Most recipes are ready in 5-15 seconds. You can leave the app while it processes — the recipe lands in your library when it's done.

Troubleshooting

The page didn't extract anything useful

Some sites — usually heavy single-page apps or JS-rendered cookbooks — return a chrome-only page on first fetch. Open the failed recipe, tap the … menu, and choose Re-import from source. Re-running the pipeline often catches sites that 503'd or rate-limited on the first attempt.

If it still fails, copy the recipe text out of Safari and paste it as text instead. That bypasses the page-loading problem entirely.

I don't see the Recipes icon in the share sheet

Scroll the share-app row to the very end and tap More, then Edit Actions. Find Recipes and toggle it on. You can also drag it to the top of the list so it's always front and center.

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How import works under the hood

A short tour of what happens between tapping Share and the recipe landing in your library — and the architectural choice that keeps it cheap to run.

Troubleshooting

Common problems and fixes — failed imports, missing ingredients, scrambled steps, sync issues.