Anyone building a cooking, meal planning, or grocery app hits the same wall fast: people do not save recipes as clean data. They save them as pictures. A screenshot of a Pinterest pin. A frame grabbed from a TikTok. A photo of a page in a cookbook. A wall of text pasted into a note.
If your app needs ingredients, servings, and steps as real fields, that messy input is a genuine problem. Scraping a web page only works when there is a web page, and most recipes shared on social apps never have one. So you end up writing brittle parsers, bolting on OCR, and babysitting edge cases forever.
This is the exact gap I built an API to close.
The idea
Send a recipe in any common form, a photo, a screenshot, a web link, or pasted text, and get back clean structured JSON. Every ingredient comes split into a name, a quantity, and a unit, with the unit normalized to a fixed vocabulary. The category, the serving count, and the instructions come back too.
