Migrating 900 Recipes from Paprika to Mealie: What Transfers and What Gets Lost

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A detailed technical analysis finds that importing a large Paprika recipe library into the self-hosted Mealie platform preserves core content — including names, directions, source URLs, and primary photos — but loses structured metadata. Per-ingredient quantity, unit, and food fields arrive as unparsed plain text, while secondary photos, difficulty labels, star ratings, favourites flags, and nutrition blocks disappear silently. The import itself is a single file upload, but restoring lost data requires scripted API calls using Mealie's REST endpoints. Users migrating from Nextcloud Cookbook face the least data loss, while RecipeKeeper users on Windows and iOS require the most manual repair work. Anyone evaluating the switch is advised to first test the import on a separate throwaway Mealie instance, since the importers are not idempotent and a failed run is difficult to reverse.

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