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Show HN: Home cooking recipes index with powerful filtering (recipeify.com)
3 points by hagsh on Aug 7, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



Hi,

As a part of a web development workshop in University we've created Recipeify - a recipe index with over 160K recipes from all over the web. Recipeify provides powerful search capabilities and filtration based on you desired ingredients, cuisines and dietary restrictions.

If you choose to login you can set dietary restrictions or forbidden ingredients to be applied on all your searches and save your favorite recipes to your cookbook. We also employ a recommendation engine that will provide you with recommendations based on your saved and viewed recipes and a general "explore" type experience full with suggestions for recipes based on seasonality and upcoming holidays.

The entire project is open source and all the code used from backend, frontend, to the scraper we've used is available on https://github.com/recipeify/Recipes.

We know that the design could be approve and would appreciate any suggestion or comment, here, through our support tickets or straight on our Github repo.

We hope you will enjoy and get some value from using Recipeify , we had a lot of fun creating it :)


There are too many features and the display doesn’t respond to my mobile screen enough to make it usable.


When you say too many features, do you mean filter fields?

And yes, I know that the mobile experience right now is far from perfect. The app was developed primarily with desktop/laptop users in mind (so I encourage you to test it from a larger display) but we are gonna provide better mobile support in the near future, as you can see in our repo.


Yes too many ui elements.


Would a SQLite virtual table be provided, so that it can be used without a web page, and with command-line interface and stuff such as local joins and copies and views and so on?


The project was mostly about creating an end-to-end web app, so right now we have no intentions providing a SQLite interface.

That being said, the recipes API which the frontend client consumes is open and allows you to query our ElasticSearch cluster. You can have a look at the API in the repo (We will be adding some documentation today or tomorrow) and of course we are open for pull requests if you wish to implement such an interface..




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