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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.a

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.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mysticpeaks.onlyrecipe https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mysticpeak... iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1602130759 https://apps.apple.com/app/id1602130759 Short 50-seconds video on how recipe camera scanner works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziSNwjv9PXo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziSNwjv9PXo Currently working on a feature that lets you share recipe "image cards" with your friends.. Something like this https://i.redd.it/kk1goqsswo981.png https://i.redd.it/kk1goqsswo981.png Let me know if you'd use that feature

logifail 5y ago
> Authors do it to get high ranking on Google [..] I believe it's more likely that it's to do with whether you can or can't copyright a listing of ingredients and method. If you add enough of a story, you definitely can.
- weird-eye-issue 5y ago
  No. As somebody who pays recipe creators and publishes recipes this is just wrong. The recipe is separate from the text that accompanies it
  - logifail 5y ago
    > The recipe is separate from the text that accompanies it Separate in a copyright sense? A web scraping bot won't necessarily make that distinction.
    - weird-eye-issue 5y ago
      Yes in a copyright sense. Recipes are also separate in a technical sense too because for SEO purposes publishers use markup to help crawlers understand recipes.
- zffr 5y ago
  Could be wrong, but I thought it was so that you spend more time on their website and have a chance to see more ads
candiddevmike 5y ago
The irony of having an ad supported app to scrape recipes from ad supported websites. I'm not sure how I feel about this.
- spacemadness 5y ago
  Technology companies selling a solution to a problem created by technology companies instead of coming together to fix the original problem. This is the world we live in.
  - massysett 5y ago
    The original problem is that people want to Google for recipes and not pay for them. As a cook there are several solutions to this: 1) pay for a subscription from vendors who are in business to sell recipes, such as Cooks Illustrated 2) get recipes from companies that provide them as a complement because they sell something else, generally food-related products. For instance King Arthur Baking has good recipes, and many are available from food companies such as Tyson, Kraft, and Betty Crocker. Grocers also have many recipes. These sources aren't interested in spamming users with ads because the website is one big ad. 3) Buy cookbooks, they're not expensive. But yeah as long as people want to crank search terms into Google and get "free" stuff, it's going to be ad-infested, and then other ad-seeking folks are going to run their shakedown operations just like the adblock extensions charge money to advertisers to let their ads through.
    - dron57 5y ago
      3) buy cookbooks While cookbooks are great they're not easily searchable. If only I could ingest every recipe from every cookbook I bought into a personal database. Hey that'd be a neat app idea!
      - sinbadpalomar 5y ago
        this is actually already a thing. Damn i forget the app but it exists I did the trial once https://www.eatyourbooks.com/ https://www.eatyourbooks.com/
cryptonym 5y ago
Spending time writing user-hostile recipe for SEO purpose, then someone else building an app trying to undo this and finally the end user spending time installing app, scanning QR code and going back to the original user-hostile website because the app didn't get milk quantity. Now I'm too tired to cook anything.
- AwkwardPanda 5y ago
  Hey can you share the url.. I will fix small issues like this..
  - cryptonym 5y ago
    It's visible on your video ;-)
- JeremyNT 5y ago
  All we're missing is crypto/NFTs to create a full circle of tech bullshit.
shortformblog 5y ago
FYI, you are about to get eaten alive by foodies. https://www.eater.com/22307633/why-are-people-mad-at-recipeasly-recipe-blog-criticism https://www.eater.com/22307633/why-are-people-mad-at-recipea...
- floren 5y ago
  They're full of shit, though. Crack open the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook and find a cookie recipe, then search for the same recipe name online. You're going to find 1000 word essays about Dear Meema's Secret Snickerdoodle recipe... followed by the same damn recipe as the BH&G cookbook.
  - shortformblog 5y ago
    This is an anecdote which clearly does not cover all cases. I think the presumption is that cooking sites are nothing but spam, but the fact that so many high-profile cooks complained about this perviously shows that this is not the case and that their livelihoods would be affected by apps like these.
  - mattschkolnick 5y ago
    [flagged]
    - floren 5y ago
      Matt, this ain't cool. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mattschkolnick https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mattschkolnick https://www.peppertheapp.com/about https://www.peppertheapp.com/about
- butwhywhyoh 5y ago
  Wrong, "foodies" are about to get eaten alive by people sick of their shit. The only people complaining loudly about that were the people propagating the BS. I certainly don't see any complaints from users mentioned in that article. If your business model relies on people scrolling past a bunch of filler to get to a short list of instructions, be prepared for people to get tired of it and solve the problem.
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logifail 5y ago

> Authors do it to get high ranking on Google [..] I believe it's more likely that it's to do with whether you can or can't copyright a listing of ingredients and method. If you add enough of a story, you definitely can.

weird-eye-issue 5y ago
No. As somebody who pays recipe creators and publishes recipes this is just wrong. The recipe is separate from the text that accompanies it
- logifail 5y ago
  > The recipe is separate from the text that accompanies it Separate in a copyright sense? A web scraping bot won't necessarily make that distinction.
  - weird-eye-issue 5y ago
    Yes in a copyright sense. Recipes are also separate in a technical sense too because for SEO purposes publishers use markup to help crawlers understand recipes.
zffr 5y ago
Could be wrong, but I thought it was so that you spend more time on their website and have a chance to see more ads

candiddevmike 5y ago

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

spacemadness 5y ago
Technology companies selling a solution to a problem created by technology companies instead of coming together to fix the original problem. This is the world we live in.
- massysett 5y ago
  The original problem is that people want to Google for recipes and not pay for them. As a cook there are several solutions to this: 1) pay for a subscription from vendors who are in business to sell recipes, such as Cooks Illustrated 2) get recipes from companies that provide them as a complement because they sell something else, generally food-related products. For instance King Arthur Baking has good recipes, and many are available from food companies such as Tyson, Kraft, and Betty Crocker. Grocers also have many recipes. These sources aren't interested in spamming users with ads because the website is one big ad. 3) Buy cookbooks, they're not expensive. But yeah as long as people want to crank search terms into Google and get "free" stuff, it's going to be ad-infested, and then other ad-seeking folks are going to run their shakedown operations just like the adblock extensions charge money to advertisers to let their ads through.
  - dron57 5y ago
    3) buy cookbooks While cookbooks are great they're not easily searchable. If only I could ingest every recipe from every cookbook I bought into a personal database. Hey that'd be a neat app idea!
    - sinbadpalomar 5y ago
      this is actually already a thing. Damn i forget the app but it exists I did the trial once https://www.eatyourbooks.com/ https://www.eatyourbooks.com/

cryptonym 5y ago

Spending time writing user-hostile recipe for SEO purpose, then someone else building an app trying to undo this and finally the end user spending time installing app, scanning QR code and going back to the original user-hostile website because the app didn't get milk quantity. Now I'm too tired to cook anything.

AwkwardPanda 5y ago
Hey can you share the url.. I will fix small issues like this..
- cryptonym 5y ago
  It's visible on your video ;-)
JeremyNT 5y ago
All we're missing is crypto/NFTs to create a full circle of tech bullshit.

shortformblog 5y ago

FYI, you are about to get eaten alive by foodies. https://www.eater.com/22307633/why-are-people-mad-at-recipeasly-recipe-blog-criticism https://www.eater.com/22307633/why-are-people-mad-at-recipea...

floren 5y ago
They're full of shit, though. Crack open the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook and find a cookie recipe, then search for the same recipe name online. You're going to find 1000 word essays about Dear Meema's Secret Snickerdoodle recipe... followed by the same damn recipe as the BH&G cookbook.
- shortformblog 5y ago
  This is an anecdote which clearly does not cover all cases. I think the presumption is that cooking sites are nothing but spam, but the fact that so many high-profile cooks complained about this perviously shows that this is not the case and that their livelihoods would be affected by apps like these.
- mattschkolnick 5y ago
  [flagged]
  - floren 5y ago
    Matt, this ain't cool. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mattschkolnick https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mattschkolnick https://www.peppertheapp.com/about https://www.peppertheapp.com/about
butwhywhyoh 5y ago
Wrong, "foodies" are about to get eaten alive by people sick of their shit. The only people complaining loudly about that were the people propagating the BS. I certainly don't see any complaints from users mentioned in that article. If your business model relies on people scrolling past a bunch of filler to get to a short list of instructions, be prepared for people to get tired of it and solve the problem.

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