diff --git a/mealie/routes/recipe/recipe_crud_routes.py b/mealie/routes/recipe/recipe_crud_routes.py
index 8a838cb2a..138a4135a 100644
--- a/mealie/routes/recipe/recipe_crud_routes.py
+++ b/mealie/routes/recipe/recipe_crud_routes.py
@@ -162,10 +162,10 @@ class RecipeController(BaseRecipeController):
     # URL Scraping Operations
 
     @router.post("/create-url", status_code=201, response_model=str)
-    def parse_recipe_url(self, req: ScrapeRecipe):
+    async def parse_recipe_url(self, req: ScrapeRecipe):
         """Takes in a URL and attempts to scrape data and load it into the database"""
         try:
-            recipe, extras = create_from_url(req.url)
+            recipe, extras = await create_from_url(req.url)
         except ForceTimeoutException as e:
             raise HTTPException(
                 status_code=408, detail=ErrorResponse.respond(message="Recipe Scraping Timed Out")
@@ -206,10 +206,10 @@ class RecipeController(BaseRecipeController):
         return {"reportId": report_id}
 
     @router.post("/test-scrape-url")
-    def test_parse_recipe_url(self, url: ScrapeRecipeTest):
+    async def test_parse_recipe_url(self, url: ScrapeRecipeTest):
         # Debugger should produce the same result as the scraper sees before cleaning
         try:
-            if scraped_data := RecipeScraperPackage(url.url).scrape_url():
+            if scraped_data := await RecipeScraperPackage(url.url).scrape_url():
                 return scraped_data.schema.data
         except ForceTimeoutException as e:
             raise HTTPException(
@@ -381,12 +381,12 @@ class RecipeController(BaseRecipeController):
     # Image and Assets
 
     @router.post("/{slug}/image", tags=["Recipe: Images and Assets"])
-    def scrape_image_url(self, slug: str, url: ScrapeRecipe):
+    async def scrape_image_url(self, slug: str, url: ScrapeRecipe):
         recipe = self.mixins.get_one(slug)
         data_service = RecipeDataService(recipe.id)
 
         try:
-            data_service.scrape_image(url.url)
+            await data_service.scrape_image(url.url)
         except NotAnImageError as e:
             raise HTTPException(
                 status_code=400,
diff --git a/mealie/services/recipe/recipe_data_service.py b/mealie/services/recipe/recipe_data_service.py
index 13a3f71cc..512db9a2e 100644
--- a/mealie/services/recipe/recipe_data_service.py
+++ b/mealie/services/recipe/recipe_data_service.py
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 import asyncio
 import shutil
-from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
 from pathlib import Path
 
-import requests
+from httpx import AsyncClient, Response
 from pydantic import UUID4
 
 from mealie.pkgs import img
@@ -13,29 +12,32 @@ from mealie.services._base_service import BaseService
 _FIREFOX_UA = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/86.0"
 
 
+async def gather_with_concurrency(n, *coros):
+    semaphore = asyncio.Semaphore(n)
+
+    async def sem_coro(coro):
+        async with semaphore:
+            return await coro
+
+    return await asyncio.gather(*(sem_coro(c) for c in coros))
+
+
 async def largest_content_len(urls: list[str]) -> tuple[str, int]:
     largest_url = ""
     largest_len = 0
 
-    def do(session: requests.Session, url: str):
-        def _do() -> requests.Response:
-            return session.head(url, headers={"User-Agent": _FIREFOX_UA})
+    async def do(client: AsyncClient, url: str) -> Response:
+        return await client.head(url, headers={"User-Agent": _FIREFOX_UA})
 
-        return _do
+    async with AsyncClient() as client:
+        tasks = [do(client, url) for url in urls]
+        responses: list[Response] = await gather_with_concurrency(10, *tasks)
+        for response in responses:
 
-    with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=10) as executor:
-        with requests.Session() as session:
-            loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
-
-            tasks = [loop.run_in_executor(executor, do(session, url)) for url in urls]
-
-            response: requests.Response  # required for type hinting within the loop
-            for response in await asyncio.gather(*tasks):
-
-                len_int = int(response.headers.get("Content-Length", 0))
-                if len_int > largest_len:
-                    largest_url = response.url
-                    largest_len = len_int
+            len_int = int(response.headers.get("Content-Length", 0))
+            if len_int > largest_len:
+                largest_url = str(response.url)
+                largest_len = len_int
 
     return largest_url, largest_len
 
@@ -107,8 +109,8 @@ class RecipeDataService(BaseService):
 
         return True
 
-    def scrape_image(self, image_url) -> None:
-        self.logger.debug(f"Image URL: {image_url}")
+    async def scrape_image(self, image_url) -> None:
+        self.logger.info(f"Image URL: {image_url}")
 
         if not self._validate_image_url(image_url):
             self.logger.error(f"Invalid image URL: {image_url}")
@@ -121,15 +123,7 @@ class RecipeDataService(BaseService):
             # Multiple images have been defined in the schema - usually different resolutions
             # Typically would be in smallest->biggest order, but can't be certain so test each.
             # 'Google will pick the best image to display in Search results based on the aspect ratio and resolution.'
-
-            # TODO: We should refactor the scraper to use a async session provided by FastAPI using a sync
-            # route instead of bootstrapping async behavior this far down the chain. Will require some work
-            # so leaving this improvement here for now.
-            loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
-            asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
-            future = asyncio.ensure_future(largest_content_len(image_url))
-            loop.run_until_complete(future)
-            image_url, _ = future.result()
+            image_url, _ = await largest_content_len(image_url)
 
         elif isinstance(image_url, dict):  # Handles Dictionary Types
             for key in image_url:
@@ -144,25 +138,25 @@ class RecipeDataService(BaseService):
         file_name = f"{str(self.recipe_id)}.{ext}"
         file_path = Recipe.directory_from_id(self.recipe_id).joinpath("images", file_name)
 
-        try:
-            r = requests.get(image_url, stream=True, headers={"User-Agent": _FIREFOX_UA})
-        except Exception:
-            self.logger.exception("Fatal Image Request Exception")
-            return None
+        async with AsyncClient() as client:
+            try:
+                r = await client.get(image_url, headers={"User-Agent": _FIREFOX_UA})
+            except Exception:
+                self.logger.exception("Fatal Image Request Exception")
+                return None
 
-        if r.status_code != 200:
-            # TODO: Probably should throw an exception in this case as well, but before these changes
-            # we were returning None if it failed anyways.
-            return None
+            if r.status_code != 200:
+                # TODO: Probably should throw an exception in this case as well, but before these changes
+                # we were returning None if it failed anyways.
+                return None
 
-        content_type = r.headers.get("content-type", "")
+            content_type = r.headers.get("content-type", "")
 
-        if "image" not in content_type:
-            self.logger.error(f"Content-Type: {content_type} is not an image")
-            raise NotAnImageError(f"Content-Type {content_type} is not an image")
+            if "image" not in content_type:
+                self.logger.error(f"Content-Type: {content_type} is not an image")
+                raise NotAnImageError(f"Content-Type {content_type} is not an image")
 
-        r.raw.decode_content = True
-        self.logger.info(f"File Name Suffix {file_path.suffix}")
-        self.write_image(r.raw, file_path.suffix)
+            self.logger.info(f"File Name Suffix {file_path.suffix}")
+            self.write_image(r.read(), file_path.suffix)
 
-        file_path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
+            file_path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
diff --git a/mealie/services/scraper/recipe_bulk_scraper.py b/mealie/services/scraper/recipe_bulk_scraper.py
index ce703bafc..9e5b7edb1 100644
--- a/mealie/services/scraper/recipe_bulk_scraper.py
+++ b/mealie/services/scraper/recipe_bulk_scraper.py
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
+from asyncio import gather
+
 from pydantic import UUID4
 
 from mealie.repos.repository_factory import AllRepositories
-from mealie.schema.recipe.recipe import CreateRecipeByUrlBulk
+from mealie.schema.recipe.recipe import CreateRecipeByUrlBulk, Recipe
 from mealie.schema.reports.reports import ReportCategory, ReportCreate, ReportEntryCreate, ReportSummaryStatus
 from mealie.schema.user.user import GroupInDB
 from mealie.services._base_service import BaseService
@@ -65,18 +67,24 @@ class RecipeBulkScraperService(BaseService):
 
         self.repos.group_reports.update(self.report.id, self.report)
 
-    def scrape(self, urls: CreateRecipeByUrlBulk) -> None:
-        if self.report is None:
-            self.get_report_id()
-
-        for b in urls.imports:
-
+    async def scrape(self, urls: CreateRecipeByUrlBulk) -> None:
+        async def _do(url: str) -> Recipe | None:
             try:
-                recipe, _ = create_from_url(b.url)
+                recipe, _ = await create_from_url(url)
+                return recipe
             except Exception as e:
                 self.service.logger.error(f"failed to scrape url during bulk url import {b.url}")
                 self.service.logger.exception(e)
-                self._add_error_entry(f"failed to scrape url {b.url}", str(e))
+                self._add_error_entry(f"failed to scrape url {url}", str(e))
+                return None
+
+        if self.report is None:
+            self.get_report_id()
+        tasks = [_do(b.url) for b in urls.imports]
+        results = await gather(*tasks)
+        for b, recipe in zip(urls.imports, results, strict=True):
+
+            if not recipe:
                 continue
 
             if b.tags:
diff --git a/mealie/services/scraper/recipe_scraper.py b/mealie/services/scraper/recipe_scraper.py
index ceb3e3468..b8c516372 100644
--- a/mealie/services/scraper/recipe_scraper.py
+++ b/mealie/services/scraper/recipe_scraper.py
@@ -21,14 +21,14 @@ class RecipeScraper:
 
         self.scrapers = scrapers
 
-    def scrape(self, url: str) -> tuple[Recipe, ScrapedExtras] | tuple[None, None]:
+    async def scrape(self, url: str) -> tuple[Recipe, ScrapedExtras] | tuple[None, None]:
         """
         Scrapes a recipe from the web.
         """
 
         for scraper_type in self.scrapers:
             scraper = scraper_type(url)
-            result = scraper.parse()
+            result = await scraper.parse()
 
             if result is not None:
                 return result
diff --git a/mealie/services/scraper/scraper.py b/mealie/services/scraper/scraper.py
index 6cb62c249..70ce2fdc6 100644
--- a/mealie/services/scraper/scraper.py
+++ b/mealie/services/scraper/scraper.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class ParserErrors(str, Enum):
     CONNECTION_ERROR = "CONNECTION_ERROR"
 
 
-def create_from_url(url: str) -> tuple[Recipe, ScrapedExtras | None]:
+async def create_from_url(url: str) -> tuple[Recipe, ScrapedExtras | None]:
     """Main entry point for generating a recipe from a URL. Pass in a URL and
     a Recipe object will be returned if successful.
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ def create_from_url(url: str) -> tuple[Recipe, ScrapedExtras | None]:
         Recipe: Recipe Object
     """
     scraper = RecipeScraper()
-    new_recipe, extras = scraper.scrape(url)
+    new_recipe, extras = await scraper.scrape(url)
 
     if not new_recipe:
         raise HTTPException(status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST, {"details": ParserErrors.BAD_RECIPE_DATA.value})
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def create_from_url(url: str) -> tuple[Recipe, ScrapedExtras | None]:
     recipe_data_service = RecipeDataService(new_recipe.id)
 
     try:
-        recipe_data_service.scrape_image(new_recipe.image)
+        await recipe_data_service.scrape_image(new_recipe.image)
 
         if new_recipe.name is None:
             new_recipe.name = "Untitled"
diff --git a/mealie/services/scraper/scraper_strategies.py b/mealie/services/scraper/scraper_strategies.py
index 82bf35f8d..c0847fe33 100644
--- a/mealie/services/scraper/scraper_strategies.py
+++ b/mealie/services/scraper/scraper_strategies.py
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from typing import Any, Callable
 
 import extruct
-import requests
 from fastapi import HTTPException, status
+from httpx import AsyncClient
 from recipe_scrapers import NoSchemaFoundInWildMode, SchemaScraperFactory, scrape_html
 from slugify import slugify
 from w3lib.html import get_base_url
@@ -23,51 +23,51 @@ class ForceTimeoutException(Exception):
     pass
 
 
-def safe_scrape_html(url: str) -> str:
+async def safe_scrape_html(url: str) -> str:
     """
     Scrapes the html from a url but will cancel the request
     if the request takes longer than 15 seconds. This is used to mitigate
     DDOS attacks from users providing a url with arbitrary large content.
     """
-    resp = requests.get(url, timeout=SCRAPER_TIMEOUT, stream=True, headers={"User-Agent": _FIREFOX_UA})
+    async with AsyncClient() as client:
+        html_bytes = b""
+        async with client.stream("GET", url, timeout=SCRAPER_TIMEOUT, headers={"User-Agent": _FIREFOX_UA}) as resp:
 
-    html_bytes = b""
+            start_time = time.time()
 
-    start_time = time.time()
+            async for chunk in resp.aiter_bytes(chunk_size=1024):
+                html_bytes += chunk
 
-    for chunk in resp.iter_content(chunk_size=1024):
-        html_bytes += chunk
+                if time.time() - start_time > SCRAPER_TIMEOUT:
+                    raise ForceTimeoutException()
 
-        if time.time() - start_time > SCRAPER_TIMEOUT:
-            raise ForceTimeoutException()
+        # =====================================
+        # Copied from requests text property
 
-    # =====================================
-    # Copied from requests text property
+        # Try charset from content-type
+        content = None
+        encoding = resp.encoding
 
-    # Try charset from content-type
-    content = None
-    encoding = resp.encoding
+        if not html_bytes:
+            return ""
 
-    if not html_bytes:
-        return ""
+        # Fallback to auto-detected encoding.
+        if encoding is None:
+            encoding = resp.apparent_encoding
 
-    # Fallback to auto-detected encoding.
-    if encoding is None:
-        encoding = resp.apparent_encoding
+        # Decode unicode from given encoding.
+        try:
+            content = str(html_bytes, encoding, errors="replace")
+        except (LookupError, TypeError):
+            # A LookupError is raised if the encoding was not found which could
+            # indicate a misspelling or similar mistake.
+            #
+            # A TypeError can be raised if encoding is None
+            #
+            # So we try blindly encoding.
+            content = str(html_bytes, errors="replace")
 
-    # Decode unicode from given encoding.
-    try:
-        content = str(html_bytes, encoding, errors="replace")
-    except (LookupError, TypeError):
-        # A LookupError is raised if the encoding was not found which could
-        # indicate a misspelling or similar mistake.
-        #
-        # A TypeError can be raised if encoding is None
-        #
-        # So we try blindly encoding.
-        content = str(html_bytes, errors="replace")
-
-    return content
+        return content
 
 
 class ABCScraperStrategy(ABC):
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ class ABCScraperStrategy(ABC):
         self.url = url
 
     @abstractmethod
-    def parse(self) -> tuple[Recipe, ScrapedExtras] | tuple[None, None]:
+    async def parse(self) -> tuple[Recipe, ScrapedExtras] | tuple[None, None]:
         """Parse a recipe from a web URL.
 
         Args:
@@ -159,9 +159,8 @@ class RecipeScraperPackage(ABCScraperStrategy):
 
         return recipe, extras
 
-    def scrape_url(self) -> SchemaScraperFactory.SchemaScraper | Any | None:
-        recipe_html = safe_scrape_html(self.url)
-
+    async def scrape_url(self) -> SchemaScraperFactory.SchemaScraper | Any | None:
+        recipe_html = await safe_scrape_html(self.url)
         try:
             scraped_schema = scrape_html(recipe_html, org_url=self.url)
         except (NoSchemaFoundInWildMode, AttributeError):
@@ -188,11 +187,11 @@ class RecipeScraperPackage(ABCScraperStrategy):
         self.logger.debug(f"Recipe Scraper [Package] was unable to extract a recipe from {self.url}")
         return None
 
-    def parse(self):
+    async def parse(self):
         """
         Parse a recipe from a given url.
         """
-        scraped_data = self.scrape_url()
+        scraped_data = await self.scrape_url()
 
         if scraped_data is None:
             return None
@@ -205,8 +204,8 @@ class RecipeScraperOpenGraph(ABCScraperStrategy):
     Abstract class for all recipe parsers.
     """
 
-    def get_html(self) -> str:
-        return safe_scrape_html(self.url)
+    async def get_html(self) -> str:
+        return await safe_scrape_html(self.url)
 
     def get_recipe_fields(self, html) -> dict | None:
         """
@@ -242,11 +241,11 @@ class RecipeScraperOpenGraph(ABCScraperStrategy):
             "extras": [],
         }
 
-    def parse(self):
+    async def parse(self):
         """
         Parse a recipe from a given url.
         """
-        html = self.get_html()
+        html = await self.get_html()
 
         og_data = self.get_recipe_fields(html)
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cff512507..eab2af7b4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ bcrypt = "^4.0.1"
 extruct = "^0.14.0"
 fastapi = "^0.89.0"
 gunicorn = "^20.1.0"
+httpx = "^0.23.1"
 lxml = "^4.7.1"
 orjson = "^3.8.0"
 passlib = "^1.7.4"
@@ -40,7 +41,6 @@ recipe-scrapers = "^14.26.0"
 requests = "^2.25.1"
 tzdata = "^2022.7"
 uvicorn = {extras = ["standard"], version = "^0.20.0"}
-httpx = "^0.23.1"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
 black = "^21.12b0"
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ pre-commit = "^2.20.0"
 pydantic-to-typescript = "^1.0.7"
 pylint = "^2.6.0"
 pytest = "^7.2.0"
+pytest-asyncio = "^0.20.3"
 rich = "^13.0.0"
 ruff = "^0.0.221"
 types-PyYAML = "^6.0.4"
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ types-python-slugify = "^6.0.0"
 types-requests = "^2.27.12"
 types-urllib3 = "^1.26.11"
 
+
 [build-system]
 build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
 requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0"]
diff --git a/tests/integration_tests/user_recipe_tests/test_recipe_bulk_import.py b/tests/integration_tests/user_recipe_tests/test_recipe_bulk_import.py
index 2d7ce316e..c4fa048d2 100644
--- a/tests/integration_tests/user_recipe_tests/test_recipe_bulk_import.py
+++ b/tests/integration_tests/user_recipe_tests/test_recipe_bulk_import.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ def test_bulk_import(api_client: TestClient, unique_user: TestUser):
 
     response = api_client.post(api_routes.recipes_create_url_bulk, json=recipes, headers=unique_user.token)
 
-    assert response.status_code == 201
+    assert response.status_code == 202
 
     for slug in slugs:
         response = api_client.get(api_routes.recipes_slug(slug), headers=unique_user.token)
diff --git a/tests/integration_tests/user_recipe_tests/test_recipe_crud.py b/tests/integration_tests/user_recipe_tests/test_recipe_crud.py
index 38e020905..1689ce73e 100644
--- a/tests/integration_tests/user_recipe_tests/test_recipe_crud.py
+++ b/tests/integration_tests/user_recipe_tests/test_recipe_crud.py
@@ -89,6 +89,16 @@ def test_create_by_url(
     assert response.status_code == 201
     assert json.loads(response.text) == recipe_data.expected_slug
 
+    recipe = api_client.get(api_routes.recipes_slug(recipe_data.expected_slug), headers=unique_user.token)
+
+    assert recipe.status_code == 200
+
+    recipe_dict: dict = json.loads(recipe.text)
+
+    assert recipe_dict["slug"] == recipe_data.expected_slug
+    assert len(recipe_dict["recipeInstructions"]) == recipe_data.num_steps
+    assert len(recipe_dict["recipeIngredient"]) == recipe_data.num_ingredients
+
 
 def test_create_by_url_with_tags(
     api_client: TestClient,
diff --git a/tests/unit_tests/test_recipe_parser.py b/tests/unit_tests/test_recipe_parser.py
index 56200fcf0..b583543a5 100644
--- a/tests/unit_tests/test_recipe_parser.py
+++ b/tests/unit_tests/test_recipe_parser.py
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ and then use this test case by removing the `@pytest.mark.skip` and than testing
 
 @pytest.mark.skipif(True, reason="Long Running API Test - manually run when updating the parser")
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("recipe_test_data", test_cases)
-def test_recipe_parser(recipe_test_data: RecipeSiteTestCase):
-    recipe, _ = scraper.create_from_url(recipe_test_data.url)
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_recipe_parser(recipe_test_data: RecipeSiteTestCase):
+    recipe, _ = await scraper.create_from_url(recipe_test_data.url)
 
     assert recipe.slug == recipe_test_data.expected_slug
     assert len(recipe.recipe_instructions) == recipe_test_data.num_steps
diff --git a/tests/utils/recipe_data.py b/tests/utils/recipe_data.py
index e505c4c15..7cd870f06 100644
--- a/tests/utils/recipe_data.py
+++ b/tests/utils/recipe_data.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def get_recipe_test_cases():
             html="jam-roly-poly-with-custard.html",
             html_file=test_data.html_jam_roly_poly_with_custard,
             expected_slug="jam-roly-poly-with-custard",
-            num_ingredients=13,
+            num_ingredients=11,
             num_steps=9,
         ),
         RecipeSiteTestCase(
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ def get_recipe_test_cases():
             html_file=test_data.html_sous_vide_shrimp,
             expected_slug="sous-vide-shrimp",
             num_ingredients=5,
-            num_steps=0,
+            num_steps=1,
         ),
         RecipeSiteTestCase(
             url="https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/detroit-style-pepperoni-pizza",