How Recipe Extraction Works
When you visit a food blog or recipe site, the actual recipe is usually buried underneath thousands of words of personal stories, high-res photo albums, and dozens of third-party advertisements.
RecipeMakerFree extracts the standardized Schema.org Recipe metadata and HTML5 microdata that search engines use to index cooking content. Because this data is machine-readable and standardized, our extractor can retrieve the exact ingredient measurements, step-by-step methods, prep times, and cook times in under a second.
Supported Recipe Platforms
- Major food publications (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, Bon Appétit, Epicurious, BBC Good Food)
- WordPress food blogs using WP Recipe Maker, Tasty Recipes, Create, and EasyRecipe plugins
- Independent food blogs publishing Schema.org structured data
- Raw recipe text pasted directly into the extractor