Import a recipe from Pinterest

Paste a Pinterest pin's link and Platefolio follows it to the recipe site and imports the ingredients and steps for you to check.

Save a recipe from a pin

You can paste a Pinterest pin’s link straight into Platefolio, the same way you’d paste a link to any recipe page.

1. Open the pin in Pinterest and copy its address. A short pin.it link from the share menu works too.
2. In Platefolio, choose New recipe, then From link.
3. Paste the address into Recipe URL and choose Import recipe.
4. Check the recipe. It opens in the same form you’d use to type a recipe in, so you can fix a title, split an ingredient or reorder steps.
5. Choose Save recipe.

Nothing is saved until you choose Save recipe.

What happens behind the scenes

A pin is a photo with a link to the site where the recipe lives. It doesn’t hold the ingredients and steps itself. So when you paste a pin, Platefolio finds the recipe site the pin links to and imports from that page. Nothing is read out of Pinterest beyond that link, and you don’t need to connect a Pinterest account.

Because the recipe comes from the original site, how well it imports depends on that site. Recipe sites and food blogs with a recipe card usually import cleanly, photo included. See Import a recipe from a link.

If the pin doesn’t work

Some pins don’t say where they link, or they point at a page that needs you to sign in. Platefolio then tells you it couldn’t find the recipe site. Two ways around it:

• Import the recipe page directly. Open the pin, tap through to the recipe, and paste that page’s address instead.
• Paste the text or use a screenshot. See Import from pasted text and Import from a photo.

Pins that hold a recipe only in the image, with no link out, need the screenshot route. More fixes are in An import didn’t work.

Going the other way? See Pin a recipe to Pinterest.

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