Save a recipe from Instagram

Instagram is the one source that actually gives up its recipe. Paste a post or reel and you get the photo plus the whole caption — not the first two lines with a "more" behind it.

Why the whole caption comes along

A shared Instagram link gives a preview image and a truncated title, and that is it. We ask Instagram for the embed version of the post instead, which hands over the media image and the complete caption without a login.

The first line of the caption becomes the title. If at least three lines look like ingredients — a bullet, or a quantity up front like "200 g" or "2 tenen" — those get filed as the ingredient list. The rest stays as notes, exactly as it was written.

The photo stops disappearing

Instagram serves its images from a CDN url with an expiry baked in. We measured one on a real reel: about four and a half days. Anything that just stores the link is looking at a dead image by next week.

So we copy the bytes to our own storage the moment you save. The picture stays even when the post is deleted, the account goes private, or the url quietly expires.

What lands on the item

Source · Instagram reel

Pasta alla Norma

Comes across

The photo, copied to our own storage
The full caption, as notes
Title, from the first line of the caption
8 ingredients, read from the bulleted lines

Does not come across

Steps — those are spoken in the video, not written down

An example, worked out. The app does not run on this page.

Finding it back later

Searching covers everything on an item: the title, the ingredients, the steps, the cuisine, the city, your notes and your own tags. So you can look for what you remember, which is rarely the title.

On top of that: filter by recipe or place, by want-to-try or done, by cuisine, by city, by collection or by tag. Those filters are built from your own library, so they only ever show what you actually have.

And when you have made it

One tap marks a recipe cooked or a place visited. A score and a note are optional, and a repeat is a new entry rather than an overwrite — the second time you make something is information too.

Out of that, and nothing else, a taste profile builds up: your cuisines, your cities, your recurring occasions. Counted from what you did, not guessed at.

Questions

Do I need to be logged in to Instagram?: No. The embed version of a public post is readable without an account. Private accounts are a different story — there the link only yields what you can see yourself.
What if the caption has no ingredients in it?: Then you keep the photo, the title and the caption as notes, and the ingredient list stays empty until you type it yourself. The save never fails over a missing field.
It grabbed the wrong title. Can I fix it?: Yes, every field is editable. There is also a "try the source again" button that only fills fields you left empty — what you typed yourself always wins.

A save never fails: the link, the title and the image are guaranteed, and everything on top of that is a bonus you can correct.

Rypzy is in closed beta

A personal food library: save from anywhere, find it back, keep what you thought. Private by default — sharing one item is one link.

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