choppingboard.recipes
Web and SaaS
recipe scraping api
SHOW HN2017
208points
105comments
#155of 2,242 in 2017
Top 7%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
6 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 11 critical, out of 35 comments about the project. Thread score -0.09.
Idea: 3 for, 4 againstDesign: 0 for, 5 againstExecution: 3 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Works on many recipe sites and non-English pages
From 2 comments
Impressively, it also works for languages other than English (albeit having trouble with formatting here and there). Is there a behind-the-scenes somewhere? Is this regex magic…
bomdo on HNVery impressed, works fine on websites in Swedish even.
staticelf on HN
Structured recipe data is needed
From 2 comments
It looks good and seems to work with some arbitrarily picked recipes on the usual large recipe websites, although more obscure links cause some bugs¹. Is the source code on…
Freak_NL on HNThis is sorely needed, so many recipe blogs follow that tired format of 'long diatribe about something moderately health or family related' then the recipe. Cool!
borne0 on HN
Objections
Fails on some sites with JSON parse errors
From 3 comments
Not sure if this is supposed to work, but german recipe site "chefkoch.de"[1] gave me a "Unexpected token in JSON at position 1611" error. [1]…
moepstar on HNThe first recipe I tried gave me an unexpected json error. Seems to only work with a few sites. Cool idea though.
zackify on HNIt looks good and seems to work with some arbitrarily picked recipes on the usual large recipe websites, although more obscure links cause some bugs¹. Is the source code on…
Freak_NL on HN
Scraping may violate recipe sites' terms and copyright
From 2 comments
It looks good and seems to work with some arbitrarily picked recipes on the usual large recipe websites, although more obscure links cause some bugs¹. Is the source code on…
Freak_NL on HNThis falls under the category of unethical scraping
Dowwie on HN
Ingredient strings lack structured quantity and unit data
From 2 comments
This really seems to be an exercise in 'structuring recipe data' rather than the ins-and-outs of scraping. Seems like a much-needed task; is there anything approaching a…
oneeyedpigeon on HNThis standard is not unique to Google. It's part of the Schema.org initiative to add semantics to the web. The full definition is here: http://schema.org/Recipe The biggest…
blackskad on HN
Unit conversion and volume-to-weight ambiguity
From 2 comments
MyFitnessPal has the same issue where the quantity values mixed between different units, but also between volume(cup) vs weight(grams). So its a pain in the neck to know how…
simooooo on HNWell, as surprising as it might sound there seem to be many units in the kitchen which are not so easy to convert. One example: How many milliliters does a table spoon have?…
JepZ on HN
Requests
Structured ingredients with quantity, unit and preparation
From 1 comment
This really seems to be an exercise in 'structuring recipe data' rather than the ins-and-outs of scraping. Seems like a much-needed task; is there anything approaching a…
oneeyedpigeon on HN
Recipe yield and scaling to number of servings
From 2 comments
What I'm missing the most in this context is for how many people those ingredients actually are. That's necessary if you want to scale the recipe to fewer or more people.
ygra on HNIt's kinda weird that it's not included yet. The schema.org spec has a field 'recipeYield' specifically for this purpose and it's present in the meatball example on the site. It…
blackskad on HN
Unit conversion
From 1 comment
Two things that would be so nice would be easy scaling, and unit conversion (even better if that's automatic)
askvictor on HN
Clean up HTML entities in output
From 1 comment
It looks good and seems to work with some arbitrarily picked recipes on the usual large recipe websites, although more obscure links cause some bugs¹. Is the source code on…
Freak_NL on HN
Questions
Is the source code on GitHub?
From 1 comment
It looks good and seems to work with some arbitrarily picked recipes on the usual large recipe websites, although more obscure links cause some bugs¹. Is the source code on…
Freak_NL on HN
Does it use bespoke code per site or generic parsing?
From 2 comments
It looks good and seems to work with some arbitrarily picked recipes on the usual large recipe websites, although more obscure links cause some bugs¹. Is the source code on…
Freak_NL on HNImpressively, it also works for languages other than English (albeit having trouble with formatting here and there). Is there a behind-the-scenes somewhere? Is this regex magic…
bomdo on HN
Is there a standard for recipe data?
From 2 comments
This really seems to be an exercise in 'structuring recipe data' rather than the ins-and-outs of scraping. Seems like a much-needed task; is there anything approaching a…
oneeyedpigeon on HNThere is a standard of sorts, if you trust Google: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/recipes
Jaruzel on HN
Alternatives named
schema.org Recipe markup
From 2 comments
http://schema.org/Recipe
arthurpaul on HNThis standard is not unique to Google. It's part of the Schema.org initiative to add semantics to the web. The full definition is here: http://schema.org/Recipe The biggest…
blackskad on HN
hRecipe microformat
From 2 comments
Back when microformats were all the rage there was h-recipe http://microformats.org/wiki/hrecipe
kozhevnikov on HNYes, this one is the most used http://microformats.org/wiki/h-recipe
lpasselin on HN
Copy Me That
From 1 comment
I made a recipe scraper that doesn't look at the structured (schema) data, but instead "reads" the whole page to detect the recipe. I found that there are too many recipe sites…
tinebak on HN
PantryPlan
From 1 comment
Check out PantryPlan: https://pantryplan.io. It does exactly that and not just meal-by-meal but entire menus. Disclaimer: I made it. :) Let me know your thoughts.
madamelic on HN
Supercook
From 1 comment
http://www.supercook.com (Enter ingredients, get recipes)
lprubin on HN