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Import Recipes from Web Pages

How often do you come across a recipe on a web page and want to save it? All the time, right? Using MacGourmet's web clipping service and the Recipe Import Assistant, it's easy to get those recipes into MacGourmet, and into the same format as the rest of the recipes in your collection, even if that web page recipe is not in what's considered a "standard" format.



Clip Recipes from any Web Page

Using the Services menu How do you do this? MacGourmet publishes a "text clipping" service that allows you to "clip" the selected text in any application that supports Mac OS X Services. What does this mean? It means that by simply selecting the text of a recipe in your web browser, like Safari, and using the "Make Text Clipping" menu item in the Services > MacGourmet menu, you can quickly import that text into your MacGourmet Clippings list. Once imported, you just need to use the Recipe Import Assistant to turn that clipping into a recipe. All it takes is a few steps and voila, the recipe you wanted to save is now in MacGourmet!



Using the Services menu Text clipping doesn't work in just Safari though. You can make a clipping from any application that supports Mac OS X Services, such as TextEdit, Pages, TextWrangler, Camino and more. You don't have to use the Mac OS X service to do this either. You can also drag and drop or copy and paste the text from any application into the clippings list and make a clipping that way.

Want to see text clipping in action? Visit the Screencasts page for web clipping.




For help or comments: macgourmet [at] advenio.com.