AI Assistant Ready
Connect Claude or ChatGPT in one click
Add Recipe Saint as a connector and your AI assistant can search recipes, save favorites, write recipes into your account, plan menus, and build shopping lists in conversation.
Your AI assistant, now with a recipe box
Recipe Saint has a built-in MCP server — the open Model Context Protocol that AI assistants use to work with your apps. Connect once, and your assistant can use Recipe Saint on your behalf, in plain conversation.
What your assistant can do
- Find recipes — "Find me a weeknight pad thai recipe" searches over a million recipes with the same hybrid search that powers the site, filters included
- Save the good ones — "Save that second one" bookmarks it to your account, with precise AI-extracted ingredients
- Write recipes for you — "Turn what we just designed into a recipe" creates it under My Recipes, labeled with the assistant's name so you always know where a recipe came from
- Plan menus — group saved and authored recipes into menus for the week, a dinner party, or the whole holiday
- Build your shopping list — "Put the ingredients for the menu on a shopping list" creates or updates your lists, and can check items off as you shop
Connect in one click
Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste https://www.recipesaint.com/api/mcp, and click Connect. You'll sign in to Recipe Saint and approve exactly what the assistant may do.
ChatGPT: turn on Developer mode (Settings → Apps → Advanced), then Settings → Connectors → Create with the same URL and OAuth authentication.
Full walkthroughs live in the documentation.
Your account, your rules
The consent screen lists each permission separately — searching, recipes, shopping lists, menus — and the assistant gets only what you approve. Recipes it creates are badged with its name in your dashboard. Disconnect at any time.
For developers
Prefer raw access? Any MCP client can connect with a personal API token from Account → API Tokens as a bearer header, with the token's permission checkboxes in control. Step-by-step instructions are in the developer documentation.