similar discussion recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29161585 similar open-source program plainoldrecipe https://plainoldrecipe.com/
https://plainoldrecipe.com/recipe returns a HTTP 400 error, https://plainoldrecipe.com/ does not.
Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
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Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
#82What is the reason that every single recipe site, without fail, follows this same horrible pattern? I.e. the twenty paragraph "When I was a child growing up in Atlanta..." followed by a crappy in-house video player followed by, finally, the actual recipe? My assumption is SEO? For some reason, Google must really like having tons of text on your page, and dislikes simple "here's the recipe"? etc? Second question - any…
Because "Recipes" are one of about a dozen categories for which google defines special Structure Data formats, which allows presumably-high-clickthrough results page features like the rich media carousel previews, etc. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure... If you want to know what categories of things will have especially horrendous (ie clickbait-optimized-to-hell) results, look at the other…
I don't usually search for recipes, but I got these just to test:
"pizza pocket recipe" 2nd result is decent: https://foodnetwork.co.uk/recipes/pizza-pockets/
"lasagne recipe easy" 1st result is good: https://www.spendwithpennies.com/easy-homemade-lasagna/
"sushi recipe chicken" 1st result is to the point https://www.tegel.co.nz/recipes/teriyaki-chicken-sushi/
Note that I have adblocker so I don't know how many ads you see and I can't judge the quality as well, buy at least the sites are quite usable. I'd be more pissed off by a missing ingredient than having to scroll a screen or two.
Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If this is true. Is there any harm in putting the recipe at the top and the story below? From an SEO perspective, yes. Time spent on page will be less if the recipe is on the top.
Such bs. I rarely spend more than 20s on a recipe page anyways. I scroll quickly to find ingredients box and thats it. Done...
...How do you follow the recipe? Or are we talking simple recipes where the steps are simple?
Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
#84What is the reason that every single recipe site, without fail, follows this same horrible pattern? I.e. the twenty paragraph "When I was a child growing up in Atlanta..." followed by a crappy in-house video player followed by, finally, the actual recipe? My assumption is SEO? For some reason, Google must really like having tons of text on your page, and dislikes simple "here's the recipe"? etc? Second question - any…
Because "Recipes" are one of about a dozen categories for which google defines special Structure Data formats, which allows presumably-high-clickthrough results page features like the rich media carousel previews, etc. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure... If you want to know what categories of things will have especially horrendous (ie clickbait-optimized-to-hell) results, look at the other…
There's a new one coming for a Media Fact Check as well. https://schema.org/MediaReview
Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
#85If you are looking for a way to tame your recipes look into Paprika [0]. It can import/scrape recipes from any site and lets you organize them and save them for later. You can use it to build a shopping list, meal plan, track what you have on hand, and more. I always make a point to mention it on posts related to recipes since it's the best app I've found for recipes and worth every penny (no subscriptions, 1-time purchase). You can also export your recipes and share them with other people (last I checked the export file was essentially a zip with JSON inside and the pictures).
Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
#86Pro tip: if a recipe has a “Print” link on the recipe page, clicking it will most likely give you a “Reader mode” version of that page with the clutter removed.
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#87It would be amazing if there was something that would convert recipes to the format used on Cooking For Engineers. It’s so intuitive and easy to read. I never want to look at steps to make a recipe again. Scroll to the bottom to see what I’m talking about: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/108/Banana-Nut-Bre...
I use CookBook which scans websites, and OCRs cookbooks with good success! I have all my regular recipes on there now
Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll see if that conversion can be done in a generic way.
As a metric user, imperial format recipes are the bane of my existence. I swear to god some Americans don't realise the rest of the world uses a whole other system.
Imperial system just seems so illogical and unscientific.
Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
#89 I have wanted to build something like this for consuming news sites, especially when my ad blocker has to be disabled.
But thinking more long term ... what about a ML project that can look at many recipes and do a kind of PCA, figure out the essence of a pound cake for example and use actual data to show the main variations as clusters in a high dimensional state space.
Or even try to reduce Thai or Mexican cooking to certain prototypical dishes and have versions at different skill levels for the aspiring home chef.
Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
#90Awesome, i'm going to add this to my PWA browser: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/wapps-private-minimal-browser/...