[acdanger]

I’ve assumed it was to create a longer page which can hold more ads.

[kortilla]

Recipes by themselves aren’t copyrightable. Bullshit stories are.

[mandelbrotwurst]

Does copyright for a story containing a recipe protect against use of the recipe outside the context of the story?

[lbotos]

No, but it stops straight scraping, and requires a scraper to do a little bit more work to copy the recipe.

[kwhitefoot]

Not much extra work surely. Most recipes are on sites that use the same template for every recipe so it's pretty easy for a scraper to find the ingredients and method. The structure is usually even labelled with meaningful class names on the elements.

[numpad0]

I think the question is “is it possible to split recipe from BS story programmatically”

[CrazyStat]

Generally yes. Most recipe blogs use semantic markup so that Google recognizes it as a recipe, which also makes it easy to scrape programmatically.

[CrazyStat]

No