[benawad]

It looks like you're using the recipe-scrapers library to scrape recipes which only supports a set number of websites.

If you want to expand that, I recommend parsing JSON+LD and Microformats. Given your parsers folder [2], it looks like you've tried it, but only for specific websites. I would make that generic and check whether the metadata is available on any website. I wrote a blog post on this if you're interested [3].

source: I've built a very similar tool for my cooking app: https://www.mysaffronapp.com/

[1] https://github.com/hhursev/recipe-scrapers

[2] https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe/blob/master/par...

[3] https://www.benawad.com/scraping-recipe-websites/

[xtracto]

Howdy crap... I just created an account on your website and added one random recipe (cashew nut yoghurt) that did not work on the original post site, and it worked like a charm!

You've got a new paying customer :)

I'd been looking for something like your app for a long time.

Ough, your PayPal flow is not working :( fix that and you'll have a paying customer haha

[mkoryak]

I second this comment. While I am probably not going to pay for this yet (I dont have that many recipes), this site was able to scrape a recipe I cook often and put it into a format that is much better than the original blog post.

The scaling and editing recipe functionality is top notch. Ill probably use this tool now.

[binalpatel]

I'd recommend checking out https://whisk.com too.

[benawad]

Oops, what part of the flow isn't working?

[xtracto]

https://ibb.co/kQrkbJV

(will autodelete in 30 mins) there's nothing very private but...

[benawad]

I'm using Paddle for payments and it looks like something wrong on their end. I'll contact them and keep you posted. Thanks for the heads up!

[memset]

Thanks for sharing! I also want to make the JSON+LD stuff generic, but I have found that there are sometimes different renditions of that format. Though, now that I've looked at it, I only have 1 example of something non-standard, which doesn't include the @graph directive.

So that just requires some more research and testing. Perhaps someone enterprising will read this and make a pull request...

Saffron looks great, I had encountered it before building this for myself. Your blog post is quite illuminating - perhaps the first practical application of LCA that I've seen outside of an interview setting :)

[scoot]

> I recommend parsing JSON+LD and Microformats

It's a shame that Saffron provides neither on the published recipe pages. If I share a recipe with someone, they might want to import it into a different app.

[benawad]

I never considered that use case, is that something you've run into?

[scoot]

Yes, and happy as I am to recommend Saffron, they may already be used to, and happy with, an alternative.

[benawad]

Yeah makes sense, I'll add this to my todo list

[Shebanator]

I'm a paying customer with about 240 recipes imported. Saffron works very well overall and I recommend it, though I did have to do a lot of hand editing on some of the recipes.

[paulintrognon]

Your app looks awesome. I've been thinking about a way of putting all my recipies in one place for a while, well, this looks like the kind of place I've been looking for.

[bilekas]

This is improessive.. Not sure why I've never played with JSON+LD before.

[dunham]

Years ago, I wrote something like you describe in the blog (regex to match ingredient lines, looking for imperative verbs, filling in the gaps). Recently I revisited the subject and learned that almost everybody has decent jsonld data now. Even paywalled stuff.

Now I've got tampermonkey watching over my shoulder and backing up everything I look at to a couchdb instance. (Still gotta write some UI and an agent to pull down images, but I've got other irons in the fire at the moment.)