Mini Mealie
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Scrape recipes and save them to a Mealie instance.
Mini Mealie - Effortless Recipe Saving for Mealie Users
Do you use Mealie to organize your favorite recipes? Wish you could easily save recipes from any website with one click? Mini Mealie makes it easy to save and organize recipes directly to your Mealie instance.
What It Does:
Mini Mealie lets you scrape recipes from any website and save them directly to your self-hosted Mealie instance. With just one click, you can capture recipe details—no more copy-pasting!
Why Install Mini Mealie?
• Save Time: Automatically scrape recipe details with one click.
• Stay Organized: Save all your favorite recipes directly to your Mealie server.
• Flexible Import: Choose between URL mode or HTML mode for maximum compatibility.
Key Features:
• Dual Import Modes: URL mode for quick imports, HTML mode for JavaScript-heavy or paywalled recipe sites.
• Smart Recipe Detection: Automatic verification to ensure the page contains a recipe before importing.
• Activity Logging: Track all import attempts with a built-in activity log viewer.
• Context Menu Access: Right-click and select "Create Recipe from URL" or "Create Recipe from HTML" to save instantly.
• Seamless Integration: Works perfectly with your self-hosted Mealie instance.
• Secure Storage: Your API tokens are stored securely in Chrome's sync storage.
How to Use Mini Mealie:
1. Login to your Mealie instance and generate an API token.
2. Install the extension and enter your Mealie server URL and API token.
3. Browse your favorite recipe websites.
4. Right-click and select "Create Recipe from URL" (or "Create Recipe from HTML" for tricky sites).
5. Access all saved recipes in your Mealie instance—organized and ready to cook!
We're excited to share that Mini Mealie is now open source on GitHub — and we're actively looking for contributors!
• 🐞 Found a bug? Submit an issue: github.com/mrshappy0/mini-mealie/issues
• 💡 Have an idea for a feature? Start a discussion: github.com/mrshappy0/mini-mealie/discussions
• 📖 Learn more: https://mini-mealie.shaplabs.org/
• 📬 Subscribe to changelog: https://mini-mealie.shaplabs.org/#subscribe (follows semantic versioning!)
Latest reviews
- David Gilmore
- Seems like a promising extension. Unfortunately, it records and transmits a record of every page I visit, which makes it unusable for me. A simple option to only send recipes manually would solve this issue.
- Thomas Earl
- So far, I'm loving this extension. I used to use cooked.wiki but moved to Mealie just recently and it works pretty well. I have a couple URLs that don't seem to detect. @Adam - How can I send these to you so you can see what's up and why their not detecting that it's a recipe?
- Mike Nguyen (Darwiner)
- No more copy/pasting! Hurray! A huge time/click-saver. This one seems to be working absolutely flawlessly with mealie. Thank you!
- Billy Banana
- After spending hours scripting recipe imports from a couple of my favorite non-Mealie compliant web sites, I was so pleased to see an extension like this exists for many, many more sites. Combined with Share to Mealie on my phone, I've now got all bases covered. Well done mate - this is such a time saver.
- Mike Contolini
- Doesn't seem to be working for me. A similar extension in firefox works fine.
- Cassie Piontek
- Super cool! Nice work on this. Makes Mealie much easier and way more efficient for desktop users.
- Miwha Bonini
- Just started using Mealie to organize my recipes. I am always jumping from blogs to recipe sites, and have some favorites, but I often forget which is which. I just rely on memory on things that felt familiar, but it's great that now I have a much simpler way to just save my go-to recipes in an easy to access place. It's such a simple concept but so valuable! Having it as an extension is perfect, a total game changer!
- Evan Greer
- This extension adds extension functionality to Mealie, letting me grab recipes directly from websites without jumping through hoops. The UI is clean, and it just works. Would love to see some additional features like bulk import in the future or a paywall jumper. I wonder if you could incorporate AI somehow? I'd love to see another way to confirm that a recipe is successfully imported. Right now you have to pin the extension to see the green check mark to confirm your import was successful.
- Ivori Zvorsky
- Makes saving recipes even faster. More tips/instruction on how to initially set up the extension would be helpful but overall awesome tool.