Does anyone here use the Paprika app for saving recipes you find online? i do and I really like it, but lately it’s not letting me download and save anything. When I hit download it leaves the app altogether without saving the recipe. Has anyone had this happen or have any idea how to fix?
Thanks!
Oh boy… my experience with recipe apps over the last 40 years has pretty much sucked (and that includes a half dozen or more).
They go unsupported, many are lousy at importing/exporting data to/from usable/properly formatted data, and have poor search options.
My final conclusion was to keep them as text files, using a text editor that could easily search predefined folders of multiple files. If you’re on a Mac check out BBEdit.
Now it is a no brainer to copy/paste to my web site, forum posts, email to a friend, my mobile device apps like Google Keep, and I no longer have to worry about tiny developers giving up on their apps… forcing me to have to transfer data from one proprietary format to another.
what he said.
I’ve been ‘online’ since the mid-1980’s - sysop’ed / wiz’oped / moderated multiple “fori” and without exception the ‘freebie’ stuff does not work well, or goes out of business - even the stuff that “works well”
my recipes are .txt, some in .rtf, some in .pdf, some lesser in .doc (where I want the pix…)
bottom line - you cannot trust any of the free/paid apps.
I do! I think I paid for it. I used Pepperplate before this, and also used Grocery IQ; both let me down, and that influenced me being willing to pay.
I save almost as many recipes there as I do on HO!
In fact, not saving everything here on HO is one reason I keep it going.
I go through phases… 
I have had download problems from time to time, but I will do a copy and paste, or save screen shot.
I really like Paprika. And I also have tons of recipes there
Agree, I love the Paprika app. It went wonky on me a few days ago but is operating as normal now. Phew!!
I currently have 1506 recipes saved in Paprika. 
Try clearing your cache - either for the website or phone app.
Mine is back to normal too. Whew!
I used to have no problem downloading recipes from the Washington Post to Paprika. Then a few weeks ago the photos suddenly stopped downloading. Now the recipes don’t download at all. I get a 502 Bad Gateway error message. Is anyone else having this problem lately? I’m not sure if it’s Paprika or the Washington Post (although I suspect the latter and have sent them an email).
I don’t subscribe to WaPo but I use Paprika regularly; several times this week.
With the occasional things that don’t download I have not found it too cumbersome to copy and paste ingredients, then directions, then url, and then download and upload a picture.
From this week
The photos accompanying the recipes do not download, even if you use edit and save. It’s impossible to save any photos from WaPo, unless you do a screenshot.
Do you ever participate in the Wednesday live food chats on WaPo? I will submit this question next week - they often address resume saving and formatting issues.
Yes I do. I was looking for where to submit to next week’s chat but couldn’t find it. Maybe I’ll have to do it the morning of. I did send Becky Kristal an email, but she’s out of office.
Yes of course one can copy paste. But when you’ve been spoiled by just being able to click “Save Recipe” on your bookmarks bar, it really does feel cumbersome.
Thanks!
Becky Krystal responded to my email. Here is what she said:
This is complicated in multiple ways, in that as an editorial employee, I have no sway or no-how on the engineering side of things. Furthermore, it’s a third-party app that has nothing to do with us. I’ll raise this yet again. Can you tell me what device/browser you’re using? When I inquired, that was one question the folks here asked me.
I let her know I was using Chrome. But since then I tried it on Edge and it didn’t work there, either. However, I then tried it in the browser within Paprika. It was extremely slow (to the point where I had forgotten I had tried it) but I was pleasantly surprised that it eventually did pull in the recipe, albeit not the photo. Still, just having to do a screenshot of the photo is a small price to pay.
Same problem, same timeline. Every other site works fine with Paprika App with the bookmarklet. For WaPo, I copy the web address and paste it into the app’s browser, which is an okay workaround… but it’s annoying when I’m trying to add a bunch from, say, an email at once, b/c the download function from the in-app browser is slow.
Yes, that is exactly my same experience and workaround. It’s also annoying to have to screenshot the photo.
