So much good cooking lives on social media now. Tradish reads the words attached to a post and turns them into a proper recipe you can cook from, search, and keep. This guide covers which platforms work and the two ways to bring a post in.

Which platforms work

Tradish can save recipes from:

• Instagram
• TikTok
• YouTube
• Facebook
• Pinterest
• Reddit

The one thing they have in common: Tradish reads the caption or post text, not the video itself. When a creator writes out the ingredients and steps, the import comes through clean. When the recipe only lives in the spoken audio with no caption to match, there may be nothing to pull.

Two ways to save a post

You will find the social import screen from the Add button, either through the social option on the save sheet or the "Saving from TikTok or Instagram?" shortcut. As the screen puts it: "Share a reel or short to Tradish, or paste its link below. We'll read the caption and turn it into a recipe."

Option 1: Share the post to Tradish

The quickest path, because you never touch a link.

1. In Instagram, TikTok, or any of the apps above, open the post.
2. Tap the app's Share button.
3. Choose Save to Tradish.
4. Tradish opens and starts reading the caption.

For the full walkthrough, see Using Save to Tradish (the share sheet).

Option 2: Paste the link

If you already copied the link, paste it into the field on the social import screen. The placeholder shows the shape it expects, something like:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/…

Copy the post's link from the app's share menu, paste it in, and Tradish takes it from there.

A note on TikTok

TikTok captions are often short. When the written caption is thin, Tradish also tries the video's auto generated captions, so a recipe that the creator talked through out loud still has a chance of coming across. It is not perfect, but it catches more than the caption alone.

When an import comes back empty

A couple of things to keep in mind:

• Posts must be public. A private or deleted post cannot be read.
• No recipe text means no recipe. If the caption is just a mood and an emoji, there is nothing for Tradish to turn into ingredients and steps, and the import may come back empty.

When that happens, try a post whose caption actually spells out the recipe, or scan a photo of the recipe instead.

After it reads the post

Every import drops you into a review screen with the title, ingredients, steps, and cover image pre-filled, plus the original creator's handle when Tradish can find it. Check it over, fix anything that came through wrong, and pick a cookbook. For the bigger picture of what happens next, see How saving works in Tradish.

If something looks off, Common import errors covers the usual culprits and what to do about each one.