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If I had the inclination I'd consider this plan of action: 1. Scrape all recipes from the site. 2. Wait until the large chunk of recipes has been removed. 3.

If I had the inclination I'd consider this plan of action: 1. Scrape all recipes from the site. 2. Wait until the large chunk of recipes has been removed. 3. Scrape the site again, and work out which recipes have been removed. 4. Throw up a domain and publish the recipes. 5. Profit? Or satisfaction in keeping alive a great public resource.

chippy 10y ago
> publish the recipes. > public resource Copyrighted. You could do the above but you'd need to do so outside of the law.
- HarrietJones 10y ago
  Except that recipes are not covered by copyright. http://opensourcecook.com/recipes-copyright-law http://opensourcecook.com/recipes-copyright-law
  - rwmj 10y ago
    Simple instructions aren't covered, but the exact wording not to mention imagery, CSS, Javascript etc is very much covered by copyright.
    - loumf 10y ago
      IANAL and this isn't the US, but in the US, (I believe) things created with public funds are in the public domain.
phelm 10y ago
for step 1, httrack can do this quite easily https://gist.github.com/phelma/3006ce53997e18a263f478e043a3601d https://gist.github.com/phelma/3006ce53997e18a263f478e043a36...
- qrv3w 10y ago
  You could also simply download all the recipes listed on their sitemap http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/sitemap.xml http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/sitemap.xml
brudgers 10y ago
1. Scrape all recipes from the site https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11712665 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11712665
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