I built an app that turns cooking videos into real recipes

Description and use

CookbookSocial automatically extracts recipes from cooking videos across platforms, verifies accuracy, and delivers an editable recipe with translation and shopping list.

Problem

Cooking videos are popular but extracting a usable recipe from them is tedious and error‑prone.

Outcome

CookbookSocial automates recipe extraction from diverse video platforms, ensuring accuracy by cross‑checking with the source and providing a clean, editable recipe ready for sharing.

Workflow

• Paste video or recipe URL
• App imports content from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, Threads, or recipe sites
• App detects language and translates if needed
• App extracts ingredients, steps, nutrition, allergen info, and shopping list
• App verifies steps against source, flags missing or fabricated steps
• User reviews and edits the recipe
• Recipe is saved to personal cookbook and can be shared

Evidence

Cooking content has moved to video. TikToks, Reels, YouTube Shorts: that's where people find what to cook tonight.

Source

You paste a link to a cooking video or a recipe website and get back a normal recipe you can edit: title, ingredients, steps, and a link to the original source.

Source

The app checks results for steps the source doesn't support. It would rather tell you what's missing, or that it couldn't find a recipe, than make one up.

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