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Plain Old Recipe: takes online recipes and removes the cruft. https://www.plainoldrecipe.com https://www.plainoldrecipe.com https://github.com/poundifdef/plain

by memset 2y ago

Plain Old Recipe: takes online recipes and removes the cruft. https://www.plainoldrecipe.com https://www.plainoldrecipe.com https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe Things I want to do: 1. Improved print-friendly format 2. Ability to format to arbitrary sizes (for example, format for index cards) 3. Smarter layouts. For example, if a recipe says "add the chicken stock" in a step it would be great if it could identify how much ("1 cup") like some apps do.

mfashby 2y ago
Thanks for plainoldrecipe! Such a handy tool.
sahmeepee 2y ago
Never seen this before, but it's such a simple and brilliant idea. Thank you!
kianN 2y ago
I love this project! I immediately made an iphone shortcut so I can convert any page I'm currently to a plainoldrecipe. Sharing in case it is useful for anyone else: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/86bfd549ae6c421ca04b5a993206f285 https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/86bfd549ae6c421ca04b5a99320...
- wyclif 2y ago
  Just The Recipe is a similar service: https://www.justtherecipe.com/ https://www.justtherecipe.com/
  - hehehheh 2y ago
    Does not appear to be open source.
  - memset 2y ago
    I would like to have some sort of paid version. Maybe an API, or something, to help pay for ongoing server costs and maybe some pizza money too. Any ideas on what would be worthwhile for “premium” access?
johnwatson11218 2y ago
I have wanted to do something like this for news websites for a while now. I tried the recipe site, my first url from lifehacker wasn't supported, the second attempt from the curated list gave an error loading site, so maybe make the links clickable, have a top 10 ready to go ( cached) at bottom of landing page. Write a bot to periodically check the list of sites this works on and indicate how recent said check was done. Then I might spend more time. Good luck!
- remram 2y ago
  It's also a little weird that they lie and claim "Usually we're able to parse recipes from {{domain}}" no matter what domain you put in. This really rubbed me the wrong way. https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe/blob/39868809c1cef9cfa21ba41da741b49b4e660974/templates/parse_error.html#L8 https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe/blob/39868809c1...

by memset 2y ago

mfashby 2y ago

Thanks for plainoldrecipe! Such a handy tool.

sahmeepee 2y ago

Never seen this before, but it's such a simple and brilliant idea. Thank you!

kianN 2y ago

I love this project! I immediately made an iphone shortcut so I can convert any page I'm currently to a plainoldrecipe. Sharing in case it is useful for anyone else: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/86bfd549ae6c421ca04b5a993206f285 https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/86bfd549ae6c421ca04b5a99320...

wyclif 2y ago
Just The Recipe is a similar service: https://www.justtherecipe.com/ https://www.justtherecipe.com/
- hehehheh 2y ago
  Does not appear to be open source.
- memset 2y ago
  I would like to have some sort of paid version. Maybe an API, or something, to help pay for ongoing server costs and maybe some pizza money too. Any ideas on what would be worthwhile for “premium” access?

johnwatson11218 2y ago

I have wanted to do something like this for news websites for a while now. I tried the recipe site, my first url from lifehacker wasn't supported, the second attempt from the curated list gave an error loading site, so maybe make the links clickable, have a top 10 ready to go ( cached) at bottom of landing page. Write a bot to periodically check the list of sites this works on and indicate how recent said check was done. Then I might spend more time. Good luck!

remram 2y ago
It's also a little weird that they lie and claim "Usually we're able to parse recipes from {{domain}}" no matter what domain you put in. This really rubbed me the wrong way. https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe/blob/39868809c1cef9cfa21ba41da741b49b4e660974/templates/parse_error.html#L8 https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe/blob/39868809c1...