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How to get the recipe from a TikTok or Instagram Reel

You saved the Reel for the recipe, and the amounts went by in two seconds of on-screen text and a quick voice-over. Paste its link into Pull Recipe and you get the recipe written down: every ingredient with its amount, the steps, and a mark on each amount saying whether it was seen, heard or inferred. It works for TikToks, Instagram Reels, and video posts on Facebook, Pinterest, X, Threads and Reddit.

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An Instagram Reel of shakshuka, and the recipe card Pull Recipe wrote from it.

What you need

The link to one video. Pull Recipe takes:

  • A TikTok or an Instagram Reel, or a video post on Facebook, Threads, Reddit, Pinterest, X, Vimeo and many other sites.
  • A public YouTube video or Short (see the YouTube guide).
  • Or the video file itself, up to 1 GB and 1 hour.

A profile, a playlist or a post with photos only can’t be imported, and trying doesn’t use a free video. You don’t need an account: your first 3 videos that give you a recipe are free.

Step by step

  1. Copy the video’s link

    In TikTok or Instagram, open the video, tap Share, then Copy link. On a computer, copy the address from the browser’s address bar.

  2. Paste it into Pull Recipe

    Open Pull Recipe, paste the link into the field and press Pull recipe. On a computer you can also drag the link from another tab onto the page: it fills the field and waits for you.

    Nothing starts until you press Pull recipe.

  3. Let it watch the video

    Pull Recipe fetches the video, then Google Gemini watches the frames and listens to the audio for every recipe and every amount. You can leave the page: the import keeps going and shows up in your cookbook. When it ends, our copy of the video is deleted.

  4. Read the card

    A video with one dish opens its recipe card: the ingredients with their amounts, the steps, and the servings and time when the video gives them. Check any line marked inferred before you cook; tap the word to see why it was marked.

    The time was shown in the video; the servings weren’t, so they say Not stated.

  5. Save it to your cookbook

    Press Save to cookbook. Your cookbook lives in this browser until you sign up with Google, Microsoft or an email code; then it’s on every device you sign in on.

What the card keeps, and what to check

The card writes down what the video shows or says. If the cook adds “a splash” and never shows a measure, the line is marked inferred with an estimate, so you know which figures came from the video and which didn’t.

If the video never says how many it serves or how long it takes, the card says Not stated instead of guessing. If the video holds no recipe at all, you get “No recipe in this video”, and it doesn’t use a free video.

When one video has several dishes

A meal-prep video with five dishes becomes a list of five recipes. Open each one, or press Save all. It still counts as one video. Then keep them all in one cookbook.

Tips

  • Paste the link to the video itself, not to a profile or a collection.
  • A video that shows or says its measures gives a card with fewer inferred lines.
  • Go through your saved videos one link at a time: each becomes a card you can find later by ingredient (see how).
  • From a YouTube video, each step links back to its moment (read more).

Try it on a video you saved

Paste its link. Your first 3 videos are free, and you don’t need an account to start.

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