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Importing from Browser bookmarks, step by step

You'll need: bookmarks.html

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    Get your recipes out of Browser bookmarks

    Chrome or Edge: open the Bookmark manager (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+O) → ⋮ menu → Export bookmarks.

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    Safari: File → Export → Bookmarks. Firefox: Bookmarks → Manage bookmarks → Import and Backup → Export Bookmarks to HTML.

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    On RecipeFiler open Import → Bookmarks and drop the .html file. We pick out recipe links (a folder named 'Recipes' or known recipe sites) and fetch each one.

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    Drop your file

    Drag the file onto the box or tap it to choose. Files up to 500MB work, photos included. Big files upload in pieces with a progress bar. If your connection drops, it carries on by itself, and if you close the tab, pick the same file again within 24 hours to carry on where it stopped.

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    Let us read it

    Small files take seconds. Large files with lots of photos can take a few minutes, and you'll see 'Reading your file and saving photos…'. If you're signed in and it takes over a minute, we save everything for you and email when it's done.

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    Check the preview

    Every recipe we found is listed and ticked. Untick any you don't want. Anything already in your cookbooks is marked 'Already in “…”'.

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    Choose where they go and save

    Leave it as a new cookbook (you can name it) or pick one of your existing cookbooks, then tap Save. Everything stays private until you choose to share. The free plan holds 10 recipes; bigger imports will ask you to pick a plan.

Good to know

  • Put your recipe bookmarks in a folder called Recipes first for the best results.
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