Great question! TikTok recipes are a mixed bag honestly.
When you paste a TikTok link, we pull the video caption and try to extract ingredients/instructions from the text. If the creator wrote out the recipe in the description (or linked to their blog), it works really well.
But you're right - a lot of TikTok recipes are just "watch me cook" with no written recipe. In those cases, we save the video embed so you can still watch it directly in the app, add your own tags, favourite it, and keep it organised with your other recipes. Not as ideal as having the full recipe extracted, but at least it's not lost in your TikTok likes anymore.
For recipe cards shown visually in videos, you can screenshot and use our photo import feature - that one does use GPT-4 Vision to OCR the text.
When you paste a TikTok link, we pull the video caption and try to extract ingredients/instructions from the text. If the creator wrote out the recipe in the description (or linked to their blog), it works really well.
But you're right - a lot of TikTok recipes are just "watch me cook" with no written recipe. In those cases, we save the video embed so you can still watch it directly in the app, add your own tags, favourite it, and keep it organised with your other recipes. Not as ideal as having the full recipe extracted, but at least it's not lost in your TikTok likes anymore.
For recipe cards shown visually in videos, you can screenshot and use our photo import feature - that one does use GPT-4 Vision to OCR the text.