Recipe importer demo for Paprika

Demo page

A first test of a recipe-scanning idea: this page checks that a recipe file made by a small website can be downloaded on a phone and opened into Paprika.

A stack of buttermilk pancakes with butter and maple syrup

Illustrative image created for this demo.

Sample content onlyThe recipe below is made-up demo content. Importing it adds one clearly marked sample recipe, which you can delete inside Paprika whenever you like.

Demo Buttermilk Pancakes

Servings4 servings
Prep time10 mins
Cook time15 mins
SourceRecipe importer demo

This stands in for a real scanned recipe. The finished version will read a photo of a cookbook page or recipe card and build this same file.

Try it on your phone

  1. Tap "Download the recipe file" below. Expected: your phone saves the file - Safari shows it in the downloads menu near the address bar.
  2. Open the Files app and find the download (Downloads folder). Tap "Demo Buttermilk Pancakes.paprikarecipes".
  3. Expected: Paprika opens the sample recipe and offers to import it. Confirm the import.
  4. Check your Paprika recipe list for "Demo Buttermilk Pancakes (sample recipe)".
Download the recipe file

If the download opens as a page of text instead of saving, long-press the button and choose "Download Linked File".

What this test tells us

This page tests one step: whether a website on your phone can hand a generated recipe file to Paprika, here by an ordinary file download. The earlier share-button route cannot reach Paprika from a web page, so the download is the path being checked. Reading a recipe from a photo, and reviewing it before import, are still to be built. Nothing on this page reads photos or uses AI, and nothing here costs anything.