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Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by lkbm »

named-user wrote: post #27

You'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.

This is linking to the websites in question. It's not too different than GWS, except in that it's not linking to any sites that include back stories.

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by OJFord »

milomildus wrote: post #35
OJFord wrote: post #25

Hey, 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.

Archana's Kitchen (archanaskitchen.com) sometimes, and I'm currently working through Delia Smith's cookery course book, many (all?) recipes of which are available at deliaonline.com actually. I'm also working through Dishoom's (restaurant) book, which I think is not available online.

Aside from those I don't really have go-to places, I tend to prefer to read through a few (i.e. just whatever top few results searching for the thing I'm thinking of making) for a general idea and inspiration of particular flavours, then 'wing it'. In future I'll try using Stovetop for that search :).

Edit: Oh yes and BBC Goodfood as sibling commenter pointed out. That's often where I search actually (because it's multiple author) rather than a general search engine, so if it were a Stovetop source I could definitely use it for that purpose.

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by milomildus »

pachico wrote: post #43

Don'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…

I already support time and includes / excludes ingredients, but saved profiles and the other filters are good ideas!

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by KeithBrink »

whoomp12342 wrote: post #33

next 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.

In addition to the other suggestions, a Firefox extension that does this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by wzy »

Be careful not to point your scraper at those mommy recipe bloggers that have a story about their grandma before the recipe. Most of the well know ones are making 6 figures a year from their blog and will fight, tooth and nail, to make sure their content is not reproduced anywhere on the internet (not even the title), except for a SERP.

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by chaxor »

Spivak wrote: post #40
whoomp12342 wrote: post #33

next 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...

Perhaps I'm dim, but I don't understand how that means you don't have to mine the site. Doesn't that simply mean you could perform the process all of the URLs in the database here by making the http request, grabbing those`recipeIngredient` sections, converting units and such, and then populating your simpler database from that?

That seems like pretty textbook (albeit very simplistic) mining to me.

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by MayeulC »

milomildus wrote: post #38
m12k wrote: post #31

Great 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.

For another similar rating system, there's also this one: https://steamdb.info/blog/steamdb-rating/

Not exactly sure how the two compare.

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by milomildus »

fortydegrees wrote: post #11

Great job! Love the UI. Did you build this from scratch or is it an extended, existing database front-end? The search/filters/sorting would be really useful to generalise as its own package!

Thanks! From scratch -- I think there are quite a few already existing React components / component libraries for table views like this, but I'll think about if there's anything I can generalize.
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