Background

Recently, I've been working on a web application to manage recipes that my partner and I have collected. The application provides forms to enter the recipe metadata as well as the ingredients that comprise the recipe.

To ease the process of copying recipes into system, I started to investigate whether it would be possible to extract the details of a recipe from the website where it is listed. This post will detail the process involved in building the functionality to import recipes, including extracting the raw data and parsing into a useable format.

Extracting recipe content

In starting the process, I wished to discover if there was a common format that recipe sites adhere to. I quickly found that to help improve the ranking of a site... Continue Reading...