We strongly recommend only using the bulk importer on a desktop computer.
If you need help or hit an issue, please ping us a message with your bulk import files so we can find and fix any bugs.
How to export your recipes from My Recipe Book:
My Recipe Book is no longer in business. Recipe exports were needed to be exported by January 31, 2021.
Once you have exported / located your .sqlite zip, you can zip/compress the resulting file with the 'Images' folder if you want to import these too.
How to import your recipes into CookBook:
- Go to CookBook's bulk importer
- Sign in to your CookBook account
- Click on 'My Recipe Book'
- Drag and drop or click to upload your recipe file
- Wait until the loading spinner has finished reading your recipe file (please be patient if you have a lot of recipes)
- All recipes will automatically be selected for import, untick any you do not wish to import.
- You can click the dropdown on a recipe to see what info we have gathered from your recipe file (please note pictures do not display here but will be imported)
- Click 'Import' at the top or 'Import Selected Recipes' at the bottom
- Watch as the importer adds all of your recipes to your CB account!
- Once the import has completed you will see a 'Import Complete' pop up.
- Any errors will be displayed in the 'Failed' section. We recommend hitting retry.
- If retry does not work, you can edit these recipes and/or make changes to allow them to be saved.
- Go into your CookBook account on the web app or Apple/Android App and hit 'Sync' on the side menu.
- All recipes you have imported will be automatically tagged with the import date and time.
- Happy cooking! 🥳
Bulk deleting recipes within a tag:
If for some reason your import does not work, you can bulk delete all recipes within a tag via the bulk importer.
- Go to CookBook's bulk importer
- Sign in to your CookBook account or if already signed in, click on your username in the top right corner then click 'Manage'
- Select which tag you'd like to delete all recipes from.
- Click 'Delete All'
- Confirm - NOTE: This PERMANENTLY DELETES ALL RECIPES WITHIN THE TAG and completely removes these recipes from your CookBook account