When a recipe site won't let us in
A few recipe sites turn recipe apps away. You can still save every recipe on them, because each way below starts from the page that is already open in front of you.
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Three ways around a blocked site
On a computer: click the web clipper
The web clipper is a button in your browser's bookmarks bar. Set it up once from the You tab, then click ＋ Clip to Snap and Simmer on any recipe page. It saves the page you are looking at, photo and source link included.
On a phone: add screenshots
Close any video that floats over the page, then take screenshots of the recipe as you scroll, from its title down to its last step. Then tap Add, then From a photo, and choose them all. We join them into one recipe and paint a picture of the dish.
Anywhere: paste the text
Select the recipe's text, copy it, then tap Add, then Paste a recipe. Include the page's address in what you paste and we keep it as the source.
Why some sites block recipe apps
When you paste a link, we open the page for you and read the recipe. Some big recipe sites refuse pages to anything that is not a person's own browser, so they turn us away. The clipper, screenshots and copied text all start from the page you already have open, so there is nothing for the site to refuse.
You will know when it happens: instead of the recipe, Snap and Simmer says the site won't let us in and shows these options right there.
Even easier in the iPhone app
In the Snap and Simmer iPhone app, you can skip the copying and the screenshots. On a recipe page in Safari, tap Share (in newer versions of Safari it is in the menu at the left of the address bar), then Snap and Simmer, and the recipe is saved from the page you are looking at, even on sites that turn recipe apps away.
Paste a link to one of those sites into From a link and the app opens the page on your phone and saves it from there.
The iPhone app is in testing now. Until it is in the App Store, use the steps above.
Questions
Which sites block recipe apps?
It changes over time, and it is usually the biggest recipe sites. Smaller food blogs usually work with From a link.
Do I get the same recipe?
Yes: the title, ingredients, steps and tags, and nothing made up. With screenshots we paint a picture of the dish instead of using the screenshot.
Does the web clipper work on a phone?
No. It needs a bookmarks bar, which phones do not really have. On a phone, use screenshots or copied text.
Is the link to the original page kept?
The web clipper keeps it. With pasted text, include the page's address and we keep it. Screenshots do not carry a link.
Keep going
Save recipes on your phone
Paste the link, or use screenshots when a site will not let recipe apps in.
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