9 comments

  • adammfrank 13 hours ago
    Related idea: I made this which will turn any recipe into a 3x5 notecard sized printout. https://tastyaf.recipes
    • d3Xt3r 1 hour ago
      Might be best to change that Serious Eats example URL, because I get:

      > Could not scrape recipe from that URL

  • selecsosi 11 hours ago
    I recommend https://www.paprikaapp.com/, been around forever, fantastic dev and pricing model. Recipe extraction is incredible
    • Larrikin 10 hours ago
      I personally recommend against investing in this app. It was great many years ago, but updates slowed to about once a year at best, often longer. Sites broke, the author ruined markdown support, so embedded videos were broken.

      There are just also free options that do a better job. I personally use Mealie, but have also heard good things about Tandoor. The export option worked well enough to get into Mealie and I never looked back.

      I do miss how good it was at converting between different measurement sizes though.

  • Tepix 48 minutes ago
    Given it’s raison d’être, why does it add a slop summary in front of the recipe, in a different language, no less?
  • pjm331 10 hours ago
    Every one of these sites already provides a print button that gives you just the recipe because they too know that the SEO spam they are forced to produce sucks
  • asimops 12 hours ago
    This immediately reminded me of Answer in Progress recipe cleaner: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZvC2jtmVAMs
  • bigmattystyles 10 hours ago
    I swear someone tried to do this pre-llms and they got harangued out of existence by the content creators.
  • newsomix9xl 17 hours ago
    This is brilliant.

    Can you also do it for amazon, so it cuts out all of the paid sponsored links for competing products and just gives me a link to the product I asked for?

  • sen 9 hours ago
    I built my own personal system for this as part of a custom “meal planning” app on my family intranet. Send a link of a random recipe to it (or a photo from your phone) and it strips out the ingredients and instructions and adds it to our own recipe system.

    I love the idea of recipe sites and meal planning sites but like most of the web it’s all so user-hostile now that I don’t feel bad scraping stuff anymore. Short of a few exceptions which I do bookmark and visit, they’re all just taking recipes from other sites anyway and adding paragraphs of blogspam and/or AI slop to it.

  • cebert 17 hours ago
    You just posted this yesterday. Why did you feel the need to post it again?
    • simulator5g 11 hours ago
      Most "user generated content" is no longer user generated, or at least not in the traditional sense. It is mostly advertiser generated these days. There are multiple competing ad agencies that poison the well on sites like this with content that is designed to look like word of mouth, but is actually an ad.
      • x______________ 1 hour ago
        The em dash in the subject was a sign of an llm generated post and the community avoided it? Now reposted in a technical manner and getting community reaction /s, maybe