recipe

Recipe OG image template

Dish name in a serif face, cooking time, servings and difficulty next to a round photo.

Recipe Open Graph image template rendered by Image API

This is a real render from the API with the example values below, at 1200×630.

Recipes are shared on Pinterest, Facebook and WhatsApp more than almost anything else. Warm paper colours, a serif title and the dish on a round plate make the card look like a cookbook page, not like software.

Fields

Every field is optional. Long text shrinks to fit instead of overflowing; an image field takes a public URL that we fetch on our side.

Field Type Description Example
title text Name of the dish. default: Recipe name Crispy tofu bowl with sesame-lime dressing
category text Small label above the title, e.g. the course or category. Weeknight dinner
time text Total cooking time. 35 min
servings text Number of servings. 4 servings
difficulty text Difficulty, e.g. Easy. Easy
author text Byline, e.g. by Green Pantry. by Green Pantry
site text Your domain or a short URL. greenpantry.co
photo image URL Photo of the dish, ideally shot from above. https://example.com/images/salad.jpg
accent colour Brand colour as hex, e.g. #6366f1. Drives buttons, highlights and the background glow. default: #c2410c #c2410c
theme dark | light Colour scheme: dark or light. default: light —

Render it with one request

Use the slug as template. The response holds the URL of the finished PNG; ?wait=true keeps the connection open until it is ready.

curl -X POST "https://imageapi.benchkithq.com/v1/images?wait=true" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "template": "recipe",
    "modifications": {
        "title": "Crispy tofu bowl with sesame-lime dressing",
        "category": "Weeknight dinner",
        "time": "35 min",
        "servings": "4 servings",
        "difficulty": "Easy",
        "author": "by Green Pantry",
        "site": "greenpantry.co",
        "photo": "https://example.com/images/salad.jpg"
    }
}'

Or paste a signed URL into og:image

For static sites, Webflow, Shopify and no-code tools: put the fields in the query string and sign it with your signing secret. The first request renders the image, every later one is a redirect to the cached file. How to compute the signature.

<meta property="og:image" content="https://imageapi.benchkithq.com/i/acc_YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID/recipe.png?author=by%20Green%20Pantry&category=Weeknight%20dinner&difficulty=Easy&servings=4%20servings&site=greenpantry.co&time=35%20min&title=Crispy%20tofu%20bowl%20with%20sesame-lime%20dressing&s=YOUR_SIGNATURE">

Make it yours

accent and theme change per request. For anything more, copy the template into your account: you get an ordinary HTML template with the same fields that you can edit in the dashboard or through the API. If the slug is free on your account, the copy takes it — your integrations switch to your version without changing a line.

curl -X POST "https://imageapi.benchkithq.com/v1/templates/library/recipe/copy" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_YOUR_KEY"

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