There are many different ways for you to add recipes to your CookBook both via the app and the CookBook web app.
Check out the best way to format your recipes here.
1. CookBook App
Firstly head into your CookBook App and from the homepage/dashboard tap 'Add Recipe'. From here you can select from 5 different options:
- New blank recipe - Check our detailed how to here
- Import from website - See our detailed how to here
- Scan recipe (OCR) - Check out our how to OCR article here
- Clone existing recipe - If you like to tweak and play around with recipes this is a great option for you. Tapping on this option will open you up into your 'All recipes' list where you'll be able to search through and find the recipe you'd like to clone. When you tap on that recipe it will clone to your account and take you to the recipe edit screen where you can then amend/adjust the recipe information. Hit 'Save' once your done.
- From a file ** - CookBook supports files containing structured recipe data in HTML, Schema Recipe, hRecipe, JSON-LD and other modern recipe formats & markups. Check out how to add a file here.
2. Browser Extensions (App & Web App)
- Apple - Safari extension - Check out our step by step here
- Android - Share extension - Check out our step by step here
- Google Chrome extension on Mac and Windows - See how to install and use here
3. Web App
Head over to the CookBook web app and sign into your CookBook account. From the homepage or side menu, tap 'Add Recipe'. From here you can select from 5 different options:
- New blank recipe - Create a recipe from scratch, check our detailed how to here
- Import from website -
- CookBook Extensions (recommended option) -
- Google Chrome Browser Extension Clipper - Check out how to use this here
- Safari and Firefox extensions to come
- CookBook Web Importer - The web importer allows you to automatically retrieve or paste website HTML data directly for CookBook to read. Generally we would recommend using one of our browser extensions where possible as it tends to have better results.
- Navigate to the website you wish to import on a separate tab or browser screen.
- Copy the webpage's URL from the URL bar.
- Paste the URL into the URL input box and hit 'import link'.
- CookBook Extensions (recommended option) -
- Scan recipe (OCR) - Check out our how to OCR article here
- Clone existing recipe - If you like to tweak and play around with recipes this is a great option for you. Tapping on this option will open you up into your 'All recipes' list where you'll be able to search through and find the recipe you'd like to clone. When you tap on that recipe it will clone to your account and take you to the recipe edit screen where you can then amend/adjust the recipe information. Hit 'Save' once your done.
- From a file ** - CookBook supports files containing structured recipe data in HTML, Schema Recipe, hRecipe, JSON-LD and other modern recipe formats & markups. Check out how to add a file here.
HELP!!! My recipe didn't import!!
When you import a recipe CookBook reads the code behind the recipe and parses the data. Unfortunately a lot of websites do not hold their recipes in a structured recipe format which means it is very hard to read and import the data. CookBook supports all modern machine readable markups and formats including HRecipe, Microdata, Recipe schema and JSON-LD - find out more here