Tandoor is a self-hosted recipe manager built on Django. You run it on your own server (typically via Docker) and access it through a web UI. It models recipes as a sequence of steps, each with its own ingredients — useful when cooking, less useful when migrating, which is why we flatten the ingredients into a single list on export.

How do I export my recipes from Tandoor?

Click your avatar in the top-right corner → Export Data. Or visit /export directly. Pick the Default exporter (not Mealie or Cooklang — those are for sending to those tools), select the recipes you want, and click Export. Tandoor produces an outer zip wrapping one inner zip per recipe, each containing recipe.json plus an image.

What gets preserved in the conversion?

Title, description, working/waiting times, servings, keywords, nutrition, source URL, hero image, and step-by-step instructions all carry through. Tandoor's per-step ingredients are flattened into a single ingredient list per recipe so the output works with any standard recipe schema.

Can I migrate from Tandoor to Mealie or Nextcloud Cookbook?

Yes — convert your Tandoor export to JSON-LD here, then import into Mealie or drop the recipe.json files into Nextcloud Cookbook's Recipes folder. JSON-LD is the common bridge between all three self-hosted recipe apps.

Tandoor Default-exporter zips supported

Convert your Tandoor recipes

Upload the zip from Tandoor's Default exporter. We unwrap the per-recipe inner zips, flatten step-level ingredients, and emit PDF, JSON-LD, CSV, Markdown, or .cook.

100% free. Open-source parsing. No account required.

What's inside the export

Tandoor's Default exporter ships a zip-of-zips. Here's what we read.

outer.zip → recipe.zip Parsed

The outer zip contains one inner zip per recipe. Don't unpack it yourself — drop the outer zip in and we walk the structure for you.

recipe.json + image Parsed

Each inner zip holds a recipe.json with steps + per-step ingredients, plus the hero image. We flatten ingredients to a single list and preserve the image through PDF/HTML outputs.

How to export from Tandoor

1

Open the export screen

Click your avatar in the top-right corner and choose Export Data. Or just navigate to /export on your Tandoor instance.

2

Pick the Default exporter

Tandoor ships several exporters — Mealie and Cooklang exporters are for sending to those tools, not for archiving. Choose Default to get the lossless internal format.

3

Select recipes and click Export

Toggle the recipes you want (or use the select-all toggle), then click Export. A zip downloads to your machine immediately.

4

Upload the outer zip here

Drop the zip into the upload area above without unzipping it. We unwrap the inner per-recipe zips for you and pick your output format.

Why convert Tandoor?

Self-hosting Tandoor gives you control of your data, but the data lives inside a Postgres database behind a Django app. A bad migration, a broken docker compose update, or just deciding to stop running a server — and your recipes are stuck behind whatever's broken.

The Default export zip is the durable snapshot that doesn't depend on the Tandoor instance continuing to run. We're the reader for it — for printing, archiving, or moving to another self-hosted app like Mealie or Nextcloud Cookbook.

Convert to JSON-LD for re-import into another self-hosted instance, PDF for printing, Markdown for a personal cookbook, or .cook for any CookLang-compatible tool. Your collection, your choice of format.

Export to any format

Get your recipes in formats that work for you

{ }

JSON

Schema.org compliant

PDF

Print-ready cards

CSV

Excel-friendly

MD

Markdown

Plain text

.cook

CookLang

For developers

DB

SQLite

Portable database

ORF

Open Recipe

YAML format

Free your Tandoor collection

Drop your Tandoor Default export above and we'll convert every recipe into the format you want.