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How to Save Recipes From Pinterest and YouTube

Published July 6, 2026 · Accurate as of July 2026 · 5 min read

Pinterest boards and YouTube subscriptions are where a lot of great recipes actually live — and where they quietly get lost. A pin is a bookmark to a page you'll never find again; a video's recipe is buried in a description you have to keep scrolling back to at the stove. Here's how Mium turns both into clean, saved recipes in your own library.

Saving a recipe from a Pinterest pin

A pin is really a pointer: behind most recipe pins is the food blog or publisher page the pin was saved from. That's exactly what Mium uses.

  1. Open the pin in the Pinterest app or on the web.
  2. Share it to Mium — tap Share and pick Mium from the share sheet, or copy the pin link and paste it into Mium's import. Short pin.it links work too.
  3. Mium follows the pin to its source. It reads the pin's title and description, then follows the pin's link to the original recipe page and pulls the real ingredients and steps from there — not a guess from the photo.
  4. Review and save. Check the result, pick where it goes, done. The saved recipe keeps a link back to the source.
The honest limitation. Some pins are just an image with the whole recipe written into the picture and no link behind them. Mium doesn't read those baked-in recipe cards yet — if a pin has no source page and no recipe text in its description, the import will come up empty rather than invent something.

Saving a recipe from a YouTube video

Most cooking channels post the full written recipe in the video description or in a pinned comment — that's the convention, and it's what Mium reads.

  1. Share the video to Mium from the YouTube app, or paste the link. Regular videos, Shorts, and youtu.be links all work.
  2. Mium reads the description and the pinned comment. If the creator wrote the recipe there, Mium structures it into ingredients and steps. If the description links out to the creator's blog instead, Mium follows the link and imports the full recipe from the page.
  3. Review and save. The video's thumbnail comes along as the cover photo.
What about recipes that are only spoken? If a creator narrates the recipe on camera but never writes it down anywhere, there's no text for Mium to read — that video won't import today. In practice this is rare for channels you'd cook from: creators who want you to make the dish almost always post the written version.

Why not just keep the pin or the like?

  • Searchable, together. "That lemon chicken from some video" becomes a search in one library, next to your cookbook scans and TikTok saves.
  • Cookable. A structured recipe means a real ingredient list — which feeds Mium's meal plan and aisle-sorted grocery list — instead of pausing and rewinding at the stove.
  • Durable. Pins get deleted and videos go private. Your saved copy, with its source link, stays in your library.

Frequently asked questions

Can I import a recipe from a Pinterest pin?

Yes. Share the pin to Mium and it follows the pin to the original recipe page it links to, then pulls the ingredients and steps into a clean recipe you can review and save. Pins that are just a photo with the recipe text baked into the image may not import yet.

Can I import a recipe from a YouTube video?

Yes, when the recipe is written down. Mium reads the video's description and the creator's pinned comment — where most cooking channels post the full recipe or a link to it. If the recipe is only spoken in the video and written nowhere, Mium can't import it yet.

Does this work with YouTube Shorts?

Yes. Shorts, regular videos, and shortened youtu.be links all work the same way — Mium reads the description and pinned comment for the written recipe.

Is importing from Pinterest and YouTube free?

It comes out of the same weekly allowance as every other import — the free plan includes 5 imports a week. When Mium can read the recipe straight from the publisher's own recipe data, the import is free and doesn't count. Mium Plus removes the weekly limit for $29.99 a year.

What other sources can Mium import from?

TikTok and Instagram posts, any recipe website link, photos of cookbook pages and handwritten cards, and pasted text. Everything lands in the same private library.

About Mium. Mium is an independent app built by a small team that ships fast and listens to its customers. We've got more in the works — and we keep this page honest by only describing what's actually in the app today (July 2026), never what's "coming soon."

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