Does anyone know if Patrick has talked somewhere about why he decided to take a job at Stripe instead of continuing his consulting business or starting a new venture?
Patrick didn't strike me as someone interested in working at a "regular" job.
Yeah, not knowing about him at all when I watched a talk by him and then realised that he is somewhat of an icon for indie/solo founders, I was very surprised to find out he had starting working as an employee in the meantime. I know he's doing well, but since I had just started out solo myself it felt a little like he had thrown in the towel ;)
It looks like you're using the recipe-scrapers library to scrape recipes which only supports a set number of websites.
If you want to expand that, I recommend parsing JSON+LD and Microformats. Given your parsers folder [2], it looks like you've tried it, but only for specific websites. I would make that generic and check whether the metadata is available on any website. I wrote a blog post on this if you're interested [3].
Howdy crap... I just created an account on your website and added one random recipe (cashew nut yoghurt) that did not work on the original post site, and it worked like a charm!
You've got a new paying customer :)
I'd been looking for something like your app for a long time.
Ough, your PayPal flow is not working :( fix that and you'll have a paying customer haha
I second this comment. While I am probably not going to pay for this yet (I dont have that many recipes), this site was able to scrape a recipe I cook often and put it into a format that is much better than the original blog post.
The scaling and editing recipe functionality is top notch.
Ill probably use this tool now.
Thanks for sharing! I also want to make the JSON+LD stuff generic, but I have found that there are sometimes different renditions of that format. Though, now that I've looked at it, I only have 1 example of something non-standard, which doesn't include the @graph directive.
So that just requires some more research and testing. Perhaps someone enterprising will read this and make a pull request...
Saffron looks great, I had encountered it before building this for myself. Your blog post is quite illuminating - perhaps the first practical application of LCA that I've seen outside of an interview setting :)
It's a shame that Saffron provides neither on the published recipe pages. If I share a recipe with someone, they might want to import it into a different app.
I'm a paying customer with about 240 recipes imported. Saffron works very well overall and I recommend it, though I did have to do a lot of hand editing on some of the recipes.
Your app looks awesome. I've been thinking about a way of putting all my recipies in one place for a while, well, this looks like the kind of place I've been looking for.
Years ago, I wrote something like you describe in the blog (regex to match ingredient lines, looking for imperative verbs, filling in the gaps). Recently I revisited the subject and learned that almost everybody has decent jsonld data now. Even paywalled stuff.
Now I've got tampermonkey watching over my shoulder and backing up everything I look at to a couchdb instance. (Still gotta write some UI and an agent to pull down images, but I've got other irons in the fire at the moment.)
If you're interested in switching, http://www.mysaffronapp.com/ has a bulk import from Paprika and you'd be able to share an account with your partner.
I built this for my mom after she wanted a better place to store all the recipes she liked to cook.
You can import recipes from websites and organize them into digital cookbooks.
Once you add some recipes to Saffron, you can generate grocery lists from them or create meal plans. With our app you can use the grocery list at the store or access your recipes on the go.
We also have a text importer which can work for PDF/Google Doc recipes but it can be hit or miss.
