Recipe Import · TikTok · YouTube · Photo · URL
Save recipes from
anywhere on the internet.
Drop a URL, paste a TikTok link, photograph a cookbook page — we extract a structured recipe with full nutrition and ingredients in seconds. No re-typing.
14-day free trial · Pro unlocks video and photo import
Four ways in
Wherever you find recipes, we'll grab them.
From any URL
Paste a link from any cooking site
NYT Cooking, Serious Eats, AllRecipes, Bon Appétit, food blogs — anywhere recipes live online. We pull the title, ingredients, and steps from structured recipe data, then run nutrition through the USDA database.
From TikTok & YouTube
Save cooking videos as real recipes
Paste any TikTok or YouTube cooking video URL. Three-tier extraction: caption first, then auto-generated subtitles, then AI transcription of the audio. The result is a structured recipe you can scale, log, and add to your meal plan.
From a photo
Snap a cookbook page or magazine recipe
Take a picture of any printed recipe — your grandmother's index card, a torn-out magazine page, a cookbook spread. Our AI OCRs the text into ingredients and steps with structure preserved.
Type it manually
Build a recipe from scratch
Free-form text entry for your own creations or recipes that don't live anywhere else yet. Add ingredients line by line; we auto-analyze macros and 22 micronutrients with USDA data.
After import
Same place. Same powers.
Imported recipes get the full BiteCaddy treatment — automatic nutrition, meal plan integration, shopping list generation, step-by-step cook mode.
Automatic nutrition
Every imported recipe runs through our USDA-powered analyzer for calories, macros, and 22 micronutrients per serving. No manual entry.
Portion scaling
Adjust servings from 1 to 20 and ingredient quantities + nutrition values scale automatically. Fractions like 1½ cups are handled correctly.
Adds to your meal plan
Imported recipes drop straight into your library. Add to any meal slot, queue for cooking, or auto-generate a shopping list.
Privacy by default
Photos used for OCR are processed in-memory and discarded. We never auto-save your cookbook photo as the recipe's hero image — copyright stays clean.
Why it matters
The recipe you actually want to cook is rarely in your app.
It's on TikTok at 11pm. It's in the cookbook your aunt gave you three Christmases ago. It's buried in a YouTube video with 2,400 comments but no written recipe.
BiteCaddy meets recipes where they live. Paste, snap, or type — we handle the conversion so you can spend the time cooking instead of copying ingredients into a notes app.
Read: why TikTok recipes never make it to dinner →Without Recipe Import
- ✕ Screenshot saved to camera roll, never opened again
- ✕ Re-type 14 ingredients into a notes app
- ✕ Watch the video three times to catch the steps
With Recipe Import
- ✓ Paste the URL → structured recipe in seconds
- ✓ Nutrition + macros computed automatically
- ✓ Add to meal plan, shopping list, cook queue
FAQ
Quick answers
What sites does URL import support?
Most major cooking sites that publish structured recipe data (JSON-LD format) — including NYT Cooking, Serious Eats, AllRecipes, Bon Appétit, Food Network, and thousands of food blogs. If a site blocks scraping, you'll see a 'See full recipe' link and a 'Log This Meal' button instead.
How does TikTok and YouTube import work?
We try the video caption first (fastest, no AI cost), fall back to auto-generated subtitles, and finally transcribe the audio with AI if needed. Pro feature with a 5/day cap and an 8-minute audio limit per video.
Will my cookbook photo become the recipe's image?
No — by design. We process the photo for OCR, extract the text, then drop the image bytes. Saving cookbook photos as recipe heroes would create copyright liability, so we deliberately don't.
What happens if the import is wrong?
You can edit anything after import — title, ingredients, steps, portions, nutrition. Imported data is a starting point, not a lock-in.
The recipe graveyard ends here.
Import any recipe. Cook it. Log it. Repeat.
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