Great idea! But please read https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...
Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
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Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#32I have wanted to build something like this, but the real pain point to solve is recipe blogs are a pain to navigate. They’re covered in ads, popups, and the first 50% of the page is some story that nobody wants to read.
What we need is wikipedia for cooking.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#33next level: mining the sites for the content and getting rid of the recipe's life story.
to me, no-bs means ingredients and instructions. Maybe a few pictures of the target meal. thats it.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#34Looks good once the 404 issue is fixed. Perhaps for a future release you could tag / filter sources by country? A big problem for me in recipe search is avoiding localisation issues (e.g. Having to do all the conversions from cups; remembering that 'heavy cream' is somewhere in between single and double cream etc.)
I gave in and bought a set of US (not the old British, nor the metric..) cups in the end.
I don't like it, but it beats using something else for a volumetric measurement.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#35Hey, another fan of vegrecipesofindia/Dassana's Veg Recipes I see! The site has some quirks (best not to try to use the quantity adjustment (which doesn't change everything) or metric/US customary toggle (which is often wrong on at least one side)) but in terms of actual recipes, range of stuff to enjoy making and eating - and quality of photos/general SNR actually - it's really nice, highly recommend it.
yeah I'm a big fan -- what other sources / sites do you generally use? I'm trying to aggregate an 'authoritative' list of high quality sources.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#36Excellent stuff and a nice break from the "rewrite it all in in my tasty-flavour-lang" approaches to doing this that crop up often on HN (not that those aren't impressive on a technical level!). This ties in nicely with the recent discussions here over the need for more specialised search engines. Are you able to give any insight into how this works behind the scenes, is it all manually input? Bookmarked for future u…
I'm currently crawling the sources which publish schema.org definitions of their recipes, or the actual html itself. Basically doing whatever google does to create their recipe cards.
Everything gets thrown into a Postgres database with a vanilla FTS implementation.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#37Hi HN I wanted to be able to search recipes from sources I knew I could trust. I also wanted a way to sort recipes by rating and include and exclude ingredients I already had. Going forward, I aim to add more sources, better ingredient filtering (hierarchical) and more dimensions (cuisine, meal time, etc.) Let me know what you think! One thing I struggled with was whether to includes mode with pictures or not. I can’…
Love the fast interface. It would be awesome if you could add functionality to filter by diet (vegetarian, vegan, paleo, etc.) For many people, diet determines which recipes are useful more often than any other factor.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#38Great idea! But please read https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...
Ha! Thanks for this. I knew that this must be a solved problem but wasn't searching for the right thing. I'll take a look at implementing a better default sort order.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#39I have wanted to build something like this, but the real pain point to solve is recipe blogs are a pain to navigate. They’re covered in ads, popups, and the first 50% of the page is some story that nobody wants to read. What we need is wikipedia for cooking.
The problem with that is that recipes are inherently more like blog than Wikipedia articles - they're so personal. Who are you to edit the number of chillies in OJFord's palak paneer, for example?
Wikipedia has a 'first come first stays' policy for British/American spelling - applying that to recipes would be disastrous, giving me the final say on how to make the de facto custard, just because I created the page before anyone else?
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#40next level: mining the sites for the content and getting rid of the recipe's life story. to me, no-bs means ingredients and instructions. Maybe a few pictures of the target meal. thats it.
You don't have to mine the site at all. There's a schema for the data that basically all cooking sites support if they want SEO https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure...