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Comment by Freak_NL

It looks good and seems to work with some arbitrarily picked recipes on the usual large recipe websites, although more obscure links cause some bugs¹. Is the source code on GitHub? Are you handling specific websites such as allrecipes.com with bespoke code?

Technically the project is interesting, but if you want to offer a commercial API you might run into copyright and fair use issues (as with any scraping tool). Not so much a problem for personal use, but expect angry letters from the major recipe websites for violating their terms of use (i.e., this is a threat to their business model).

1: Try this link: https://www.thespruce.com/peking-duck-recipe-694920 . You'll see a lot of garbage HTML and XML entities in the JSON that can be filtered and replaced fairly easily.

parent Freak_NL 9 years ago

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