I'd welcome feedback on https://www.reciperadar.com which is an open source recipe search & meal planning that I've been working on.
~100k recipes, search by ingredients (and kitchen equipment), and plenty more features planned.
~100k recipes, search by ingredients (and kitchen equipment), and plenty more features planned.
You could probably reuse the same engine to do the same with cocktails and maybe other stuff.
All the components and dependencies are open source, so there's a social and learning element involved when integrating new features and finding bugs / improvements in other projects.
Cocktails could certainly be another domain this could work for, and homebrewing is another that springs to mind. I'm not currently intentionally keeping the core services extensible to those, but forks and/or later generalization of the application are both possible.
1) you might have to do in the future some deduplication of entries in your master index - e.g. by searching https://www.reciperadar.com/#search&action=search&include=ba... I see that the entries pointing to thepioneerwoman.com & tastykitchen.com for "Pasta Carbonara" are identical (the 2 sites might be mirrors of each other or one site might just have copied the contents of the other one) => depending on how much your index will grow you'll maybe want to show only 1 result pointing to 2 different URLs.
2) The scraping of contents of other websites coupled with displaying it directly on our own website might become problematic. Meaning that you would be an "ally" of the source websites if you would just show the results and the overview of the needed ingredients but then just point to the recipe hosted on the other website, but you would become an "enemy/opponent" if you would display the recipe directly on your site.
Meaning that on one hand I would not be happy at all if somebody would steal my contents and stop users from getting to my website (I would therefore e.g. blacklist their bots and IPs from which they would try to scrape my site), but on the other hand for somebody that might increase traffic to my website I would potentially even provide a special API so that that bot could get better quality data (instead of scraping the html).
Cheers & good luck :)
Yes, the application text is localized using Apertium[1] machine translation, and it's... not perfect yet :)
At some point I would like to integrate 'Weblate'[2] as a translation platform; for now I'm afraid the best I could do is point you to the PO files for RecipeRadar here:
https://github.com/openculinary/internationalization
If you're able to add some corrections under the 'locales/corrections/fr' directory then your help would be greatly appreciated :)
NB: Thanks also for highlighting the need for ingredient/equipment name translations too; that'll need a little design & planning but is important to handle. I've opened an issue to track it here: https://github.com/openculinary/knowledge-graph/issues/51
[1] - https://www.apertium.org
[2] - https://weblate.org/
possible categories could be eg. breakfast, lunch/dinner, snack, desert, cakes, cookies, sweet, savory, soup, dry/portable (for the road), fingerfood, cold, warm, no cooking (like sandwiches, salads, etc)
the list likely depends on what categories you are able to detect in the recipe data, but you get the idea.
So direct copying without any transformation could be a bit risky.
Also - what about the images? Where are they from? It looks like they are scraped too.
cans of tuna tuna can canned tuna can of tuna
(none of the above works)
AND
teriyaki sauce
OR
ketchup
?
(I've added some debug SQL and output to the issue in case you're curious)
Substitutions (i.e. 'ingredient x OR ingredient y satisfy my constraints') are planned. I'm yet to fully spec the feature out and consider all the use cases, so I'll make sure that's one of them.
There are still only three recipes that contain both tuna and teriyaki sauce appearing, so coverage could likely be improved further. But it's a start, I hope!
The concept is that RecipeRadar will ultimately help you track your kitchen inventory (all on your own device; there are no user accounts), and then the search step will disappear into the background - you'll be straight into browsing recipes that match your context.
It's not there yet and I'd appreciate hearing about how you like to browse recipes in case that's something else that can be supported.
Sure, you may want to come up with a few different sets, perhaps Italian stuff, Asian-focused, vegetarian, etc.