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Platebreaker

Recipe nutrition search engine. Indexes schema.org/Recipe JSON-LD. Respects robots.txt. Verified via Web Bot Auth.
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What is Platebreaker?

Platebreaker crawls recipe sites for a search service organized around nutrition targets and food preferences. Its results send users to the publisher's original recipe page.

The crawler reads schema.org/Recipe data embedded as JSON-LD. Platebreaker says it does not copy full page content or reproduce complete recipe instructions, and instructions are hidden in its results by default. Accurate structured data therefore matters more to this crawler than decorative page copy.

Platebreaker identifies itself as Platebreaker/1.0 (+https://www.platebreaker.com/bot), keeps its rate below one request per second per domain, and respects both robots.txt and Crawl-delay. Site owners can also submit sitemaps, set an indexing frequency, or disable listing through Platebreaker's creator tools.

This is a specialized recipe index, not a documented AI training pipeline. Allowing it can make structured recipes eligible for Platebreaker search and referral traffic. It does not establish any broader effect on generative search or language-model training.

Relevant for AI search

Is Platebreaker relevant for AI search?

Yes. Platebreaker collects pages for an AI product, so what it can crawl influences how AI systems describe your brand.

Platebreaker feeds a search index that also powers that engine's AI answer features and overviews. One crawl can serve a classic results page and a generated summary, so blocking it costs you both the rankings you would expect and a growing share of AI answers built on the same index.

How to handle Platebreaker

Recipe publishers can allow only the directory that contains canonical recipe pages. Check that those pages expose valid Recipe JSON-LD and that linked images or metadata needed for the listing are reachable.

This example blocks the rest of the site while allowing recipe URLs:

User-agent: Platebreaker
Disallow: /
Allow: /recipes/

Platebreaker documents robots.txt and Crawl-delay support. For stronger identity checks, validate its Web Bot Auth HTTP signatures against https://www.platebreaker.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory instead of trusting the user agent.

Examples

  • A recipe publisher corrects missing nutrition fields in its Recipe JSON-LD, submits a sitemap, and watches Platebreaker's indexing progress.
  • A food site allows `/recipes/` but keeps subscriber-only meal plans outside the crawler's permitted paths.
  • An edge service verifies the request signature before exempting Platebreaker from a general bot challenge.

Frequently asked questions about Platebreaker

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It reads schema.org Recipe JSON-LD, including the structured fields needed to match recipes with nutrition targets and preferences.

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