diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5b49c03c5..04508fed1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
   [#1000](https://github.com/nextcloud/cookbook/pull/1000) @seyfeb
 - Reenable the fixup action after deprecation in central repository
   [#1012](https://github.com/nextcloud/cookbook/pull/1012) @christianlupus
+- Trim recipe name to a maximum length to fit in the database
+  [#1014](https://github.com/nextcloud/cookbook/pull/1014) @christianlupus
 - Update eslint-plugin-vue
 
 ### Documentation
diff --git a/lib/Service/RecipeService.php b/lib/Service/RecipeService.php
index 50aa37d10..41f62c77f 100755
--- a/lib/Service/RecipeService.php
+++ b/lib/Service/RecipeService.php
@@ -149,6 +149,11 @@ public function checkRecipe(array $json): array {
 		// Make sure that "name" doesn't have any funky characters in it
 		$json['name'] = $this->cleanUpString($json['name'], false, true);
 
+		// Restrict the length of the name to be not longer than what the DB can store
+		if (strlen($json['name']) > 256) {
+			$json['name'] = substr($json['name'], 0, 256);
+		}
+
 		// Make sure that "image" is a string of the highest resolution image available
 		if (isset($json['image']) && $json['image']) {
 			if (is_array($json['image'])) {