Can you also do it for amazon, so it cuts out all of the paid sponsored links for competing products and just gives me a link to the product I asked for?
Every one of these sites already provides a print button that gives you just the recipe because they too know that the SEO spam they are forced to produce sucks
I built my own personal system for this as part of a custom “meal planning” app on my family intranet. Send a link of a random recipe to it (or a photo from your phone) and it strips out the ingredients and instructions and adds it to our own recipe system.
I love the idea of recipe sites and meal planning sites but like most of the web it’s all so user-hostile now that I don’t feel bad scraping stuff anymore. Short of a few exceptions which I do bookmark and visit, they’re all just taking recipes from other sites anyway and adding paragraphs of blogspam and/or AI slop to it.
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[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 39.0 ms ] threadCan you also do it for amazon, so it cuts out all of the paid sponsored links for competing products and just gives me a link to the product I asked for?
(Presuming the site doesn't update/revise element identifiers frequently. See FB for one which apparently does this, per recent HN submissions.)
I love the idea of recipe sites and meal planning sites but like most of the web it’s all so user-hostile now that I don’t feel bad scraping stuff anymore. Short of a few exceptions which I do bookmark and visit, they’re all just taking recipes from other sites anyway and adding paragraphs of blogspam and/or AI slop to it.