Show HN: Only Recipe – Remove clutter from recipe sites. No life story,no popups(showcase.onlyrecipe.app)

8 pointsby AwkwardPandavor 5 Jahren7 comments

showcase.onlyrecipe.app

Show HN: Only Recipe – Remove clutter from recipe sites. No life story,no popups

https://showcase.onlyrecipe.app

7 comments

It can get frustrating skimming through text walls just to find the recipe on blogs/sites. Authors do it to get high ranking on Google.

You can use OnlyRecipe.app to extract the recipe information. It works on almost all sites/blogs which follow a recipe standard when they post.

You can also save it to your phone directly using the app. Scan recipe QR code using your phone camera and voila.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mysticpeak... iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1602130759

Short 50-seconds video on how recipe camera scanner works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziSNwjv9PXo

I built this as a side project to learn a new programming language. So thought of sharing it. :)

visaalsvor 5 Jahren

Would you care to share how does this app work under the hood? I think the hacker news audience would be more interested to understand that then to use the app per se haha. Do you parse the page for a bulleted list next to certain keywords?

Also why not just make this a browser extension instead of an app to remove the step requiring the user to scan a QR code?

AwkwardPandavor 5 Jahren

Hi, sure.

So schema.org has a standard json schema for recipes. Crawlers use this information to parse and figure out what kind of content lives on the page.

Since google encourages this and ranks pages with schema higher, all recipe blogs and sites add this schema to their html.

This is structured data. I just parse this json.

Not all recipes follow this though. So you may occasionally see error messages for old sites that have not implemented schema.org structure.

Regarding your second question, I built this as a side project to learn flutter. I learned the basics of flutter and wanted to build something with the newly-acquired skill.

Hence the mobile apps and web app. All these are built with flutter. :)

Let me see if I can integrate this inside a browser extension.

barbarbarvor 5 Jahren

Great with the explanation of how it works. I pasted a url from a danish site and it worked flawlessly. Great job and congrats on the launch.

About flutter. I am on mobile web. But scrolling on the page feels "not great". (But that is probably related to how flutter works)

AwkwardPandavor 5 Jahren

Thanks.

About the scroll, yes, flutter feels weird on the web.

I'd recommend using the mobile app though. Smoother and has more features. :)

visaalsvor 5 Jahren

ohh interesting, I didn't know about schema.org -- that's pretty cool!

No worries about making it a browser extension. I wasn't sure if you're trying to make this into a business or not. I would envision this working similarly to iOS's reader mode but for recipes. Best of luck!

sircastorvor 5 Jahren

This is great. My wife and I are constantly complaining “I don’t care about the magical journey you went on to make these cookies. I just want the dang recipe…”