RecipeFilter

I got so sick of those recipe stories that I made a free browser extension that looks for and surfaces recipes straight to the top in a modal: https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter

LPT: Recipe Filter is shockingly good at cutting out all the filler and presenting it in an easy-to-read format https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter

I got so fed up with this that I made a browser extension for it. It's in the Chrome Web Store and Firefox as well, but you'll have to build the xcode project in the Safari directory if that's your preferred browser. https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter

I get loads of really kind emails and messages on a daily basis from the users. It's been really rewarding in that way. A couple ideas that people have put forth seem really reasonable, such as unit conversions, print-friendly pages, and automatic nutrition labels. In fact, I'd actually love those too as a cook! One feature that would improve the recipe recognition and unlock lots of other features where it's found would be JSON-LD support. I'm seeing lots of recipe pages containing those handy, structured formats lately. A comment about JSON-LD: https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter/issues/22#issuec... But all of these things stray from the fundamental simplicity of what it does. The code is just 92 lines of JS and works (or breaks!) transparently. If I started adding features, it would quickly become another complex system to main

In the same vein, I made the Recipe Filter extension for browsers: Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlc... FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter... Source code (there's Safari in there if you don't mind building it yourself): https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter I was spurred into action by a comment here on HN back in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15755378 It got demoed to the world during WWDC 2020, which was really neat: https://youtu.be/Kwh2y6VkzoA

Lots of good extensions in this thread. Here are some optional extensions I like: - Twemex - https://twemex.app/ - Adds a really useful sidebar to Twitter. - Recipe Filter - https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter - Focuses recipes front and center on food blogs - Notion Boost - https://gourav.io/notion-boost - Adds a lot of really nice features to Notion - Tampermonkey - https://www.tampermonkey.net/ - Lets you create your own JS customizations on web pages without needing to make a whole browser extension. I really wish it was far easier for everyday people to make their own personal browser extension-like functionality and share it with others. Extending the apps we use feels really empowering and can help people transition from helpless consumers of apps to authors of how their computer works. Here's an essay I like detailing this

I wrote recipe-filter thanks to a comment here on HN years ago! https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter

This is an open source project: https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter

This is really exciting for me! Apple reached out earlier this year to ask if they can use my own extension to test the conversion tool (porting from the Chrome version) and to demo it during WWDC. Of course, now I have to convert it myself for Safari 14 and distribute, but it seems straightforward. I hope RecipeFilter can expand to the major mobile browsers one day as well... Here's a clip from WWDC where they demo the ported extension: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwh2y6VkzoA Chrome Web Store for it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlc... Source code: https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter The original HN comment that caused me to create the extension almost 3 years ago! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15745914

There's a Chrome extension to fix that: https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter > This Chrome browser extension helps cut through to the chase when browsing food blogs. It is born out of my frustration in having to scroll through a prolix life story before getting to the recipe card that I really want to check out.

There's a Chrome extension to fix that: https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter > This Chrome browser extension helps cut through to the chase when browsing food blogs. It is born out of my frustration in having to scroll through a prolix life story before getting to the recipe card that I really want to check out.

Are you saying that you don’t enjoy the 4 page life retelling story intermixed with countless ads and the same staged photo from 5 different angles and 4 different focal points when you just want to see the recipe? Luckily, there is an extension to parse all that out. https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter

There's a Chrome extension to fix that: https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter > This Chrome browser extension helps cut through to the chase when browsing food blogs. It is born out of my frustration in having to scroll through a prolix life story before getting to the recipe card that I really want to check out.

There's a Chrome extension to fix that: https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter > It is born out of my frustration in having to scroll through a prolix life story before getting to the recipe card that I really want to check out.

I noticed this too and made a plugin that saves me a lot of time; it copies the recipe into a container and puts it in a modal at the top of the page with original formatting intact. Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlc... Source: https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter Video demo & explanation: https://youtu.be/3Xq1p10f3v4