Show HN: BBC Recipe search engine. Open source, super fast

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Post by user24 » Thu, May 19, 2016, 10:39 AM UTC

Show HN: BBC Recipe search engine. Open source, super fast
auntiesrecipes.co.uk

Re: Show HN: BBC Recipe search engine. Open source, super fast

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Post by user24 » Thu, May 19, 2016, 10:45 AM UTC

On Tuesday the Guardian reported that the BBC (fondly aka Auntie) would be archiving their recipes, so I quickly scraped the site and wrote a search engine for it.

Not sure how the site will evolve, if at all, but it was a fun side project!

Code is here if you want to play: https://github.com/user24/auntiesrecipes

Re: Show HN: BBC Recipe search engine. Open source, super fast

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Post by spacecowboy_lon » Thu, May 19, 2016, 10:49 AM UTC

user24 wrote: post #2

On Tuesday the Guardian reported that the BBC (fondly aka Auntie) would be archiving their recipes, so I quickly scraped the site and wrote a search engine for it. Not sure how the site will evolve, if at all, but it was a fun side project! Code is here if you want to play: https://github.com/user24/auntiesrecipes

Cool - you might want to look at using levenshtein distance algo to improve the search.

Re: Show HN: BBC Recipe search engine. Open source, super fast

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Post by user24 » Thu, May 19, 2016, 10:55 AM UTC

spacecowboy_lon wrote: post #3

user24 wrote: post #2

On Tuesday the Guardian reported that the BBC (fondly aka Auntie) would be archiving their recipes, so I quickly scraped the site and wrote a search engine for it. Not sure how the site will evolve, if at all, but it was a fun side project! Code is here if you want to play: https://github.com/user24/auntiesrecipes

Cool - you might want to look at using levenshtein distance algo to improve the search.

nice idea. Eventually, if I add more recipes, I'll need to move the search serverside too.

Re: Show HN: BBC Recipe search engine. Open source, super fast

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Post by rajington » Thu, May 19, 2016, 12:15 PM UTC

user24 wrote: post #2

On Tuesday the Guardian reported that the BBC (fondly aka Auntie) would be archiving their recipes, so I quickly scraped the site and wrote a search engine for it. Not sure how the site will evolve, if at all, but it was a fun side project! Code is here if you want to play: https://github.com/user24/auntiesrecipes

I thought archiving meant it would be no longer on their website, it would be awesome if they just released it all under something like the GPL. Could do some fun machine learning stuff with it...

Re: Show HN: BBC Recipe search engine. Open source, super fast

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Post by user24 » Thu, May 19, 2016, 12:23 PM UTC

rajington wrote: post #5

user24 wrote: post #2

On Tuesday the Guardian reported that the BBC (fondly aka Auntie) would be archiving their recipes, so I quickly scraped the site and wrote a search engine for it. Not sure how the site will evolve, if at all, but it was a fun side project! Code is here if you want to play: https://github.com/user24/auntiesrecipes

I thought archiving meant it would be no longer on their website, it would be awesome if they just released it all under something like the GPL. Could do some fun machine learning stuff with it...

I'd love them to release it as open data so that I'm not in murky waters.

If they move the recipes I can update the links. If they take the recipes down (which they've said they won't, now) I have got all the data so could rehost them.

edit: but, if you want to do some fun ML work, my scraper should help get you started!

Re: Show HN: BBC Recipe search engine. Open source, super fast

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Post by sheraz » Thu, May 19, 2016, 2:10 PM UTC

In other recipe news, some devs @nytimes recently released some __VERY__ interesting code that handles unstructured data from the NYTIMES recipe archives:

CRF Ingredient Phrase Tagger https://github.com/NYTimes/ingredient-phrase-tagger

I used to work with a lot of recipe data in multiple languages, so this topic remains close to my heart.

This could be an interesting project to add to the trained data.

Re: Show HN: BBC Recipe search engine. Open source, super fast

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Post by user24 » Thu, May 19, 2016, 2:38 PM UTC

sheraz wrote: post #7

In other recipe news, some devs @nytimes recently released some __VERY__ interesting code that handles unstructured data from the NYTIMES recipe archives: CRF Ingredient Phrase Tagger https://github.com/NYTimes/ingredient-phrase-tagger I used to work with a lot of recipe data in multiple languages, so this topic remains close to my heart. This could be an interesting project to add to the trained data.

Very cool. I was thinking of expanding mine to work with other recipe sites, so this may come in handy, thanks!