For recipe sites

ClipaRecipe is a private recipe box. When a person pastes a link to one of your recipes, our server reads that one page so they can save it. Here’s exactly what that means for your site.

What our server does

• It fetches a page only when someone pastes its link. It never crawls, follows links or reads other pages on your site.
• People can also clip with a button in their own browser, which sends us the recipe data from the page they’re reading. Your robots.txt rules for ClipaRecipe and any block request apply to that button too.
• If two people clip the same page, it is read once and the copy is reused.
• It identifies itself as ClipaRecipe/1.0, with a link to this page, in its user agent.
• It checks your robots.txt first and follows it.
• It reads the recipe details you already publish for search engines (schema.org Recipe data) and the recipe photo. It doesn’t keep your story, comments or other content.

How your recipes are shown

• A clipped recipe is private to the person who saved it, and to people they share a category with.
• Every saved recipe names your site and links to the original page. Shared links carry a large “Recipe by” credit and a link to your page, and tell search engines not to index them.
• We never publish clipped recipes on public pages, and we don’t show ads on them.

Blocking ClipaRecipe

To stop imports from your site, add this to your robots.txt. It takes effect within a few hours:

User-agent: ClipaRecipe
Disallow: /

Or ask us to block your domain, and we will, usually within a day. People can still type a recipe in by hand with a link to your page.

Questions, or a copyright concern? Email support@bringalist.com.