Comment by memset
2 years ago
Plain Old Recipe: takes online recipes and removes the cruft.
https://www.plainoldrecipe.com https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe
Things I want to do:
1. Improved print-friendly format 2. Ability to format to arbitrary sizes (for example, format for index cards) 3. Smarter layouts. For example, if a recipe says "add the chicken stock" in a step it would be great if it could identify how much ("1 cup") like some apps do.
I have wanted to do something like this for news websites for a while now. I tried the recipe site, my first url from lifehacker wasn't supported, the second attempt from the curated list gave an error loading site, so maybe make the links clickable, have a top 10 ready to go ( cached) at bottom of landing page. Write a bot to periodically check the list of sites this works on and indicate how recent said check was done. Then I might spend more time. Good luck!
It's also a little weird that they lie and claim "Usually we're able to parse recipes from {{domain}}" no matter what domain you put in. This really rubbed me the wrong way.
https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe/blob/39868809c1...
I love this project! I immediately made an iphone shortcut so I can convert any page I'm currently to a plainoldrecipe. Sharing in case it is useful for anyone else: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/86bfd549ae6c421ca04b5a99320...
Just The Recipe is a similar service: https://www.justtherecipe.com/
I would like to have some sort of paid version. Maybe an API, or something, to help pay for ongoing server costs and maybe some pizza money too.
Any ideas on what would be worthwhile for “premium” access?
Does not appear to be open source.
Never seen this before, but it's such a simple and brilliant idea. Thank you!
Thanks for plainoldrecipe! Such a handy tool.