This is great, thank you. Do you have any plans to do an Instapaper-style scrape that just reduces the recipe down to the ingredients/instructions?
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
#42Some thoughts: 1) Clean up the plural duplicates, e.g. peanut/peanuts, leek/leeks, carrot/carrots, etc. 2) I've never considered the author, is that common? 3) Mode to toggle pictures on would help scanning, cooking is very visual 4) Not simple to design, but some way to have either/or ingredients (e.g. peanuts OR cashews) could be useful
I'm currently working on a data structure for ingredients which significantly improves on the current flat list. It should be able to address plural duplicates / locale duplicates / and hierarchy. 4) is a good idea.
The thing I struggle with for pictures is where to put them, but I'll play around with some options. Maybe they can be behind a toggle.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#43Don't get me wrong, I think yours is definitely a no-bs application, however I think the entire recipe search engines is not working, or at least, not in the way I expect it to work.
I wish it was more a holistic solution, mixing calendar, already available ingredients, non available, shopping list, where to get what you're missing, different profiles (I'm vegan, for instance, but I grew up in Italy so I wish I could mix both profiles), search by available time, by difficulty, requirements, and much more.
Let's say that how to get the recipe is something that isn't the problem I have.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#44Hey, 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
#45next 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.
A lot of sites have a "Jump to Recipe" link. If this linked directly to that section, it'd be okay.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#46Some thoughts: 1) Clean up the plural duplicates, e.g. peanut/peanuts, leek/leeks, carrot/carrots, etc. 2) I've never considered the author, is that common? 3) Mode to toggle pictures on would help scanning, cooking is very visual 4) Not simple to design, but some way to have either/or ingredients (e.g. peanuts OR cashews) could be useful
You should start considering the author more, cooks you like will probably sell recipes to a variety of publishers and any given publisher's quality is likely to vary wildly at any kind of scale.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#47next 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.
https://plainoldrecipe.com/ does this!
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#48I 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.
It's an expensive paid subscription, but the America's Test Kitchen website is basically a professionally maintained cooking information index. The standards of information are much higher than a wiki (they do scientific method testing of every tool, technique and recipe). Unfortunately there is one thing that annoys me, which is that there are full page ads for their other products, even if you are already a subscriber.
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#49You're gonna get C&D imminently like that other site did. I can't find the name of it, sorry. I fully support what you're doing. I am not fussed with someone's back stories about how their great grandmother's auntie's friend had her hair dyed when walking her dog to pick cherries... Blah blah... Just want the recipe and method But unfortunately... Advert revenues are a thing.
I hope not -- unlike the other site you still have to go to the source to read the recipe, so hopefully this doesn't have an impact on their ad revenue.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#50Are the filters working properly? I tried filtering for "almond flour" which comes up as an ingredient option, but got no results