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Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by natch »

PolandKid wrote: post #280
natch wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But I wasn’t sweeping up all recipe blogs, only those that are festooned with obnoxious ads. As to moral cleanliness (wow) it matters what use the recipe will be put to. If I just want to cook something, it’s fair use. If I am setting out to scrape massively and create my own spammy site, that’s not cool obviously. Please consider more angles here.

We're considering the angle of an app whose sole purpose is to capture the valuable IP of an author and remove their ability to monetize it. It's not like they're paying them via some publisher program, just pure scraping and re-organizing.

You may be right, if the sites truly own original content that is then being displayed in the app. It seems that is often not the case though.

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by bloopernova »

6gvONxR4sf7o wrote: post #239
JonathanBuchh wrote: post #30

It 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...

The job isn't over until we have gantt charts!

Specifically Gantt charts created from Org-mode inside Emacs :)

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by rembicilious »

midasuni wrote: post #275
GrumpyNl wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great thing about those recipes its not only the layout, it has the volumes in grams.

How on Earth would you measure volume in grams?

Easy! water 150ml = water 150g /pedantry

I think the op means it’s nice that the ingredients are given by weight because it is more accurate than volume.

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by [deleted] »

AwkwardPanda wrote: post #2

It can get frustrating skimming through text walls just to find the recipe on blogs/sites. Authors do it to get high ranking on Google. You can use OnlyRecipe.app to extract the recipe information. It works on almost all sites/blogs which follow a recipe standard when they post. You can also save it to your phone directly using the app. Scan recipe QR code using your phone camera and voila. Android: https://play.goog…

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Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by PolandKid »

candiddevmike wrote: post #76
AwkwardPanda wrote: post #2

It can get frustrating skimming through text walls just to find the recipe on blogs/sites. Authors do it to get high ranking on Google. You can use OnlyRecipe.app to extract the recipe information. It works on almost all sites/blogs which follow a recipe standard when they post. You can also save it to your phone directly using the app. Scan recipe QR code using your phone camera and voila. Android: https://play.goog…

The irony of having an ad supported app to scrape recipes from ad supported websites. I'm not sure how I feel about this.

@AwkwardPanda

And how does a site opt out of your scraping? Do you have a unique user-agent when you scrape? A set of IPs?

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by john-tells-all »

fancy_pantser wrote: post #155

In the same vein, I made the Recipe Filter extension for browsers: Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlc... FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter... Source code (there's Safari in there if you don't mind building it yourself): https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter I was spurred into action by a comment here on HN back in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.co…

This extension is wonderful! Using it for a few months. It's refreshing to go to a recipe page and actually see the recipe :-D

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

brailsafe wrote: post #260
lifeisstillgood wrote: post #257

Reading good food writers is the whole point of having good food writers. They can build an evocative sense of the time and place, the sense of why a recipie is the way it is. Its sometimes a personal journey, its sometimes escapism. And yes it changes - Elizabeth David sounds outrageously prissy to modern ears - but food has always been part of human culture, and as we evolve so will our food. Its fine to read the w…

Save it for a read that someone would seek out deliberately for the long-form content though. This wouldn't exist if people loved the long rambling intros about how ever since the 1400s Spaghetti Bolognese has captured the hearts and minds of italians and their diaspora. blah blah blah

I did say good food writers :-)
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