u/srepollock

Like most people who cook at home, I find recipes online. And like most people who find recipes online, I've spent years enduring the same experience: click a promising link, get hit with a wall of text about someone's grandmother's kitchen in rural Italy, scroll past 14 ads, and finally find the ingredient list approximately three miles down the page.

I also had recipes "saved" across about six different systems — browser bookmarks (dead links), phone screenshots (impossible to search), a Pinterest board I created in 2019 and never looked at again, and a notes app full of pasted text with no formatting.

So I built Recipe Retriever (https://reciperetriever.app).

How it works:

Paste any recipe URL into the app

AI reads the page and extracts the title, ingredients, and instructions

You get a clean, structured recipe card — no ads, no preamble, no clutter

Save it to your personal digital cookbook

That's the core loop. Paste a link, get the recipe, save it.

Some other things it does:

Image upload — Take a photo of a page in a physical cookbook and it'll extract and digitize the recipe

Meal planning — Organize your saved recipes into a weekly meal plan

Search & filter — Find any recipe in your collection instantly

Works with any site — Food blogs, cooking magazines, newspaper recipe sections, basically any page with a recipe on it

Tech details (for the curious):

The extraction uses AI to parse unstructured web pages and pull out recipe data. It handles the messy reality of recipe blogs — recipes wrapped in WordPress themes with ads and widgets everywhere, different formatting conventions, ingredients split across multiple sections, etc. The goal is to reliably get a clean recipe from any page you throw at it.

What I'm looking for:

Mainly feedback. I've been using it myself for a while and it's become one of those tools I use every day without thinking about it. But I'm curious what other people's experience is — are there sites that don't work well? Features you'd want? Things that feel clunky?

It's free to try. No account required to test the extraction — just paste a URL on the homepage.

Happy to answer any questions about the tech, the product, or the build process.

Hey r/WebApps,

Like most people who cook at home, I find recipes online. And like most people who find recipes online, I've spent years enduring the same experience: click a promising link, get hit with a wall of text about someone's grandmother's kitchen in rural Italy, scroll past 14 ads, and finally find the ingredient list approximately three miles down the page.

I also had recipes "saved" across about six different systems — browser bookmarks (dead links), phone screenshots (impossible to search), a Pinterest board I created in 2019 and never looked at again, and a notes app full of pasted text with no formatting.

So I built Recipe Retriever (https://reciperetriever.app).

How it works:

1. Paste any recipe URL into the app
2. AI reads the page and extracts the title, ingredients, and instructions
3. You get a clean, structured recipe card — no ads, no preamble, no clutter
4. Save it to your personal digital cookbook

That's the core loop. Paste a link, get the recipe, save it.

Some other things it does:

• Image upload — Take a photo of a page in a physical cookbook and it'll extract and digitize the recipe
• Meal planning — Organize your saved recipes into a weekly meal plan
• Search & filter — Find any recipe in your collection instantly
• Works with any site — Food blogs, cooking magazines, newspaper recipe sections, basically any page with a recipe on it

Tech details (for the curious):

The extraction uses AI to parse unstructured web pages and pull out recipe data. It handles the messy reality of recipe blogs — recipes wrapped in WordPress themes with ads and widgets everywhere, different formatting conventions, ingredients split across multiple sections, etc. The goal is to reliably get a clean recipe from any page you throw at it.

What I'm looking for:

Mainly feedback. I've been using it myself for a while and it's become one of those tools I use every day without thinking about it. But I'm curious what other people's experience is — are there sites that don't work well? Features you'd want? Things that feel clunky?

It's free to try. No account required to test the extraction — just paste a URL on the homepage.

Happy to answer any questions about the tech, the product, or the build process.