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Torrere reads a recipe from a link
Paste a recipe page's address into Torrere's start screen and send it. Torrere reads the page, taking the recipe from the page's structured data when it has any and from its visible text when it doesn't, and saves it as a recipe you can change and cook from. On September 22, 2026, Torrere read 86 of 100 recipe sites straight from their own pages.
Torrere reads the page the way the site published it
Most recipe sites describe each recipe in schema.org structured data: the ingredients, the steps, the yield and the times. Torrere reads that first. When a page has none, or it has no steps in it, Torrere reads the page's visible text instead, up to 60,000 characters of it. Either way the recipe goes through the same reader, which copies what the page says and adds nothing of its own. One link makes one recipe: when a page carries several, Torrere takes the first.
Torrere saves the recipe straight away and says what it couldn't read
A recipe read from a link is saved as soon as Torrere has read it. Torrere's first message says what it read and how many it serves, lists anything it couldn't make out, and asks about a temperature with no unit, whether it was Celsius or Fahrenheit. The first change card says which site the recipe was read from and has a button to discard it if it's the wrong one.
If the page's method stops at the oven, Torrere adds one last step on how to serve the dish. That step arrives as its own change, so undo takes it back.
Torrere tests 100 recipe sites every month
Every month Torrere asks 100 popular recipe sites for one recipe page each, from its own server, and publishes what each one did. Which recipe sites Torrere can read has the latest results, site by site. Sites change what they allow, so each result is dated rather than a promise. When a site won't answer says what Torrere does with a site that answered with a browser check or refused.
Torrere doesn't read recipes from Instagram, TikTok or YouTube
Torrere reads the text on a web page. It doesn't watch or listen to a video. On September 23, 2026, TikTok and YouTube video pages reached Torrere with no text on them at all, so Torrere says "There's nothing to read on that page." Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest ask Torrere in their robots.txt not to read their pages, and Torrere doesn't, from the server or from the phone. When the creator also publishes the recipe on a website, that page's link works. Or ask Torrere for the dish by name and it writes its own version.
Torrere reads up to 12 links a minute
Each Torrere account can have 12 pages read in any one minute. Links a site refused don't count toward the 12. Past that, Torrere says "That's a lot of links at once, give it a minute", and the next link after that minute works.
Torrere names itself and follows robots.txt
Torrere's reader tells every site who it is, as Torrere/1.0 (+https://torrere.com/reader), and fetches one page, once, because a person pasted its address. Before reading, Torrere checks the site's robots.txt, and again if a redirect takes it to another address. A site that asks Torrere not to read its pages isn't read, from the server or from the phone. The Torrere reader is the page for site owners.
Torrere's reader has limits on what it opens
Torrere reads web pages and nothing else. A link to a PDF or an image gets "That address isn't a page I can read." Torrere follows up to 5 redirects, reads up to 8 MB, and gives up after 20 seconds. It sends no cookies, so it sees what someone who isn't signed in to the site would see. A page that's gone gets "That page isn't there any more."
Torrere keeps the page's text for 90 days
Torrere keeps the text it read from a page for 90 days, tied to your account, and deletes it after that. The recipe Torrere made from it stays in Saved recipes.
Torrere reads links as part of Chef
On the web, reading a link is part of Chef, Torrere's subscription, and of Chef's free week. The Torrere apps for iPhone and Android come with a small amount of free cooking on each phone, and reading a link uses it. Subscription says what each plan includes.
Torrere can use a link inside a recipe you're changing
A link isn't only for starting a recipe. In a recipe you already have open, send a link with a sentence around it, like "use the frosting from this", and Torrere reads the page and does what you asked with it.