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YouTube to Recipe — Turn Any Cooking Video into a Recipe Card

Paste the link to a cooking video and KitchenConvert pulls out the written recipe — ingredients, steps, servings — ready to scale, save, and break down into calories and macros. It works best when the creator posts the recipe in the video description or links to it on their own site; that’s where the real recipe lives, not in the video’s audio.

Import from YouTube

Paste a video link — we'll pull the recipe from the description if there is one.

Three steps

How it works

  1. Step 1

    Paste the link

    Drop in the URL of any YouTube cooking video — no upload, no account needed to try it.

  2. Step 2

    We find the written recipe

    KitchenConvert checks the video description and any linked recipe page for the ingredients and method the creator actually published.

  3. Step 3

    Scale, analyse, save

    Adjust servings, get calories and macros per serve in your units, and save it to your recipe box with the source video kept alongside it.

Already have the recipe another way?

Got the recipe as text, a link, or a photo instead of a video? The nutrition calculator takes pasted text, the recipe scanner reads photographed cookbook pages and handwritten cards, and the unit converter handles cups to grams and °F to °C — all with the same scaling as the YouTube importer. If the video’s in another language, the recipe translator handles both the words and the measurements in one step.

Questions

Common questions

Where does the recipe actually come from?
From the video description if the creator wrote one out there, or from a recipe page they link to. KitchenConvert never transcribes the audio or pulls YouTube’s auto-generated captions — if the creator didn’t publish a written recipe somewhere, there’s nothing reliable to extract.
Why can’t it get the recipe from some videos?
Some creators keep the method entirely in the video and never write it down — no description, no linked blog post. When that happens KitchenConvert says so plainly instead of guessing from the video title, and you can paste in what you catch by ear and let the editor take it from there.
Does it work on YouTube Shorts?
Not yet. Shorts rarely carry a written recipe in the description, so extraction quality is too unreliable to promise right now. Regular videos with a description or linked recipe page work best.
Is this free?
Yes — 3 imports a day with no account at all, and 10 a day once you create a free account. A free account also saves the recipe to your recipe box, scales it, and gives you calories and macros per serve.
Does it credit the creator?
Yes. The video stays embedded next to the recipe, and the source URL is kept on the saved recipe so it’s always clear which channel it came from.

Stop pausing and rewinding to catch the method

A free account gets 10 YouTube imports a day, calories and macros per serve, unlimited scaling, and a recipe box to keep everything in.

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