openrecipes

This reminds me of RDF recipe ontologies (as they can be used with RDFa: e.g., schema.org's Recipe[1] and the food ontology[2], and there are/were dedicated spiders to search those, such as openrecipes[3]), but with a custom syntax; might be nice to define mappings to/from those, for compatibility. Though unfortunately the larger open recipe databases I saw online tend to use custom (sometimes XML-based, at least) formats/structures, so there's nothing quite readily usable (that I'm aware of) as a result. [1] https://schema.org/Recipe [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/fo [3] https://github.com/fictivekin/openrecipes

This is a bummer but I admire how they've handled the acquisition. I was an avid user of Punchfork until its acquisition and was bummed with the way they handled user data (More info here: https://github.com/fictivekin/openrecipes#the-story) I'm really glad they're giving users complete control to acquire their data and, even better, that they're encouraging developers to use their data and import it into other tools.

Have you considered using Open Recipes? https://github.com/fictivekin/openrecipes I saw it on HN a couple weeks ago and it's basically one big project to scrape and index food blog recipes. It doesn't include preparation instructions but it uses schema.org's recipe format, which includes ingredients and other useful things: http://schema.org/Recipe