holy crap, I found an app I always wanted and didn't know existed: Mealie https://mealie.io

You give it a URL, it scrapes the page, pulls ingredients, photos, and steps and you now have a local archive of every recipe you love. Here's my favorite NYT sheet pan chicken saved to my Synology install

I grab recipes from a variety of newspaper sites, cooking sites, food blogs and more, and having one spot to save them all that I control and have backups of is really nice. I can tell I'm going to love this thing for many years going forward.

@mathowie I've used a similar app, Paprika, for the last few years and am a total evangelist about it. They even have a bookmarklet function where you can be on any recipe page and click the bookmarklet and it sends the recipe automatically to your Paprika.

I imagine the same thing for Mealie would be possible. It's such a useful tool.

@mathowie When are you inviting me over to cook?
@Drwave any time you’re in Oregon you’re welcome in my kitchen!
@mathowie Ah nice. I've built something similar (and simpler) for ourselves but this looks obviously much more sophisticated. Thanks for sharing!
@mathowie claude, build this tool
@brotherpsyche @mathowie The first release of it was in 2021, so I don't think that's true. The release notes do look like they're using LLM to generate them, but that's not the same thing as being a vibe coded app.
@GregMitchell @mathowie oh i meant i asked claude to build me the same tool / sends them to obsidian / scrapes whole sites
@mathowie fwiw the Paprika app does this really well too. We’ve been using it for more than a decade and have about 2k recipes in it.

@mathowie 2937 recipes actually, for now.

We started using it ages ago, when for my wife’s Xmas present I hand typed more than 300 recipes into it, and then used its basic tools for ingesting online recipes to add bundreds more.

But now, sites that post recipes have all made it dramatically easier. It works great.

I wish Papeika was a bit better at step-wise recipe progression, like Melo does. But its planning is much better, at least for our family.

Every important meal in our family has been planned by it for at least a decade, and hundreds of others have been subject to it.

There’s a reason it keeps being in the top ten paid apps.

@lkanies @mathowie I second this. I also like how you can scale ingredients based on whether you want to double, half, etc…
@lkanies @mathowie I was going to say, Paprika has done similar for years, and I believe Mela does too?
@mathowie oh god, stripping all the damn SEO novellas from the recipe sounds glorious!
@mathowie i use https://tandoor.dev/ for that and it's a game changer ✨
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@mathowie

I have it on my Synology and collect/write my recipes there. Great app!

@mathowie Oh damn, this looks great.
@mathowie Nextcloud Cookbook (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/cookbook) does this too!
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@mathowie interesting, but seems quite complicated..
I'm using mycookbox for the same scope since years, unfortunately the developer stopped the project last year and removed it from PlayStore, however you can still find the apk around https://my-cookbox-cookbook.it.softonic.com/android
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@mathowie I'll add to the club: cooked.wiki is my go to for the same feature. No ads, just recipe.
@mathowie More than just recipes! After using I don't know how many different list apps (e.g. "Remember the Milk" and Keep), Mealie is also what my family has settled on for shared shopping lists.
@mathowie Paprika also will extract a list of recipes and ingredients and a photo, for an app-based approach (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android).
@mathowie Recipe Keeper has also had this feature for years. I’ve heard that Paprika is better, but i haven’t had a reason to switch
@mathowie oh I am SO setting this up thanks for sharing