rickyg365 / recipe_scraper

A simple recipe scraper

Recipe Scraper

A simple recipe scraper.

Credit for Recipes: https://copykat.com

Table of Contents

• Overview
  • Goal
  • Screenshot
  • Tech Stack
• Process/Journey
  • Learned
• Looking Ahead
  • Feature WishList/TodoList
  • Issues
• Resources Used
• Authors/Contributers
• Acknowledgements

Overview

Goal

Cooking for yourself is hard, especially the
thinking about what to cook for dinner part.

I wanted to create a program that gathers up
some fun and delicious recipes and can send
them to my email using smtp daily.

Screenshot

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Tech Stack/ Built With

• Python
  • BeautifulSoup4
  • flask

-- To Be Implemented --

• HTML and CSS
  • styled w/ styled components
• JavaScript
  • Next.js
  • React.js
• deployed w/ netlify

Process/Journey

I started off by studying the html of the web page
(after checking the robots.txt ofc), I wrote some
notes about the DOM elements I was gonna reference
and then I wrote some code to get the data I wanted,
I then started organizing the data, I first stored
it as a text file then made a function to convert
it into a json format

Learned

I got more comfortable, referenceing dom elements
using bs4 and also storing data in a variety of formats.

Looking Ahead

Feature WishList/TodoList

• Send Recipes via E-mail!
• Console Interface for referencing Recipes
• Custom Flask API to access Recipes
• Web Frontend Interface

Issues

• Where to host frontend and backend
• Issue 2
• Issue 3

Resources Used

• Stack Overflow link

Authors/Contributers

• RG
• Person 2
• Person 3

Acknowledgments

Thanks again to https://copykat.com for the Recipes!