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Re: Show HN: Recipe search engine, built in vanilla PHP

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Post by chain-- »

guhidalg wrote: post #8

Nice work! I recently built a similar page, https://letscooktime.com , might be good to compare notes. On integrating with recipe APIs, you can scrape recipe structured metadata. Most web sites use the google structured data, you can query for a script tag with type ld+json and find the structured data. See more information here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure...

I also have something similar :)

Demo (client only): https://josh18.github.io/hitpoints/recipes Source: https://github.com/josh18/hitpoints

Goals are a little bit different though, designed to be a personal catalog.

Re: Show HN: Recipe search engine, built in vanilla PHP

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Post by nsemikey »

innerbits wrote: post #46

This is a good start. As a foodie who loves to cook and software engineer, I strongly dislike the bloated recipe sites and I have my own mini-site where I share my recipes with friends. Some ideas to consider, based on my experience building my own Hugo-based static recipe site: - Search: I decided to use Azure Search because of the flexibility it provides (cost is minimal and covered by my free Visual Studio subscri…

great tips thanks!

Re: Show HN: Recipe search engine, built in vanilla PHP

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Post by nsemikey »

rglullis wrote: post #49
innerbits wrote: post #46

This is a good start. As a foodie who loves to cook and software engineer, I strongly dislike the bloated recipe sites and I have my own mini-site where I share my recipes with friends. Some ideas to consider, based on my experience building my own Hugo-based static recipe site: - Search: I decided to use Azure Search because of the flexibility it provides (cost is minimal and covered by my free Visual Studio subscri…

+1 for microformats. OP, please take a look at https://microformats.org/wiki/h-recipe and others will be able to make it sharing and integrating with their own software a lot easier.

never heard of this before, will def take a look!

Re: Show HN: Recipe search engine, built in vanilla PHP

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Post by nsemikey »

zichy wrote: post #50

Nice work! I have two suggestions usability-wise: * Make sure your navigation is consistent. The left filter links and the about/contact links are missing on many pages. A breadcrumb would help as well. * The horizontal tabs on the recipe pages aren't really useful, I'd display all content at once. No need to force the users to click several times. Even on smaller viewports it's easier to just scroll.

thanks! great suggestions

Re: Show HN: Recipe search engine, built in vanilla PHP

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Post by bitwize »

It's funny how "keeping track of recipes" was one of the useless, bullshit use cases for home computers going back to the 80s and before (with the equally useless, equally bullshit Honeywell Kitchen Computer). But now, recipes are hard enough to find amid all the webshit and clickbait that finding and tracking recipes is now a great app idea.

Re: Show HN: Recipe search engine, built in vanilla PHP

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Post by nsemikey »

bitwize wrote: post #55

It's funny how "keeping track of recipes" was one of the useless, bullshit use cases for home computers going back to the 80s and before (with the equally useless, equally bullshit Honeywell Kitchen Computer). But now, recipes are hard enough to find amid all the webshit and clickbait that finding and tracking recipes is now a great app idea.

lol yes quite ironic

Re: Show HN: Recipe search engine, built in vanilla PHP

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Post by boplicity »

> make sure I'm not violating any terms (give source credit in recipe page).

This is a common misunderstanding. Giving credit does not grant the right to copy protected works.

In terms of copyright for a recipe site -- you can't copyright an ingredient list, and you can't copyright a process, but the language in the directions can be protected. For example, this (https://recipehunt.app/kimchi-recipe-1224) seems to be in violation of copyright. However, if the directions were re-written in original language, it would be fine.

Re: Show HN: Recipe search engine, built in vanilla PHP

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Post by nsemikey »

boplicity wrote: post #57

> make sure I'm not violating any terms (give source credit in recipe page). This is a common misunderstanding. Giving credit does not grant the right to copy protected works. In terms of copyright for a recipe site -- you can't copyright an ingredient list, and you can't copyright a process, but the language in the directions can be protected. For example, this ( https://recipehunt.app/kimchi-recipe-1224 ) seems to…

I see, thanks for clarifying. Does that mean all recipe aggregators are likely violating copyright?

Re: Show HN: Recipe search engine, built in vanilla PHP

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Post by nsemikey »

nsemikey wrote: post #58
boplicity wrote: post #57

> make sure I'm not violating any terms (give source credit in recipe page). This is a common misunderstanding. Giving credit does not grant the right to copy protected works. In terms of copyright for a recipe site -- you can't copyright an ingredient list, and you can't copyright a process, but the language in the directions can be protected. For example, this ( https://recipehunt.app/kimchi-recipe-1224 ) seems to…

I see, thanks for clarifying. Does that mean all recipe aggregators are likely violating copyright?

Also, how does copyright apply to social media sites. Like if someone posted the recipe on facebook or instagram.

Re: Show HN: Recipe search engine, built in vanilla PHP

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Post by MrVandemar »

Curious. I built a site in Vanilla PHP that lives solely on my laptop for now, for much the same reason. The reason it's not live to the world is that I couldn't find anything considered "best practice" for secure user authentication, password management, etc. and put off the project for a time when I can learn a framework that has that problem solved. Frameworks are daunting though.

How did you approach the user management?

Nb, I love your approach to the site - its function drives its form. There's no flashing lights, ads, cookie banners, anything annoying. It's just pure content, and that's what I'm craving on the internet lately.

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