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Re:Show HN: An API for scraping recipe web pages by pdimitar on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @05:51PM (#14800333)
Is your repository public and/or are you willing to share? I am not looking to make this into a business myself but as a guy who is very frustrated that he can't properly organize his diet, I really want to use something like this.

Hell, if it can be improved to be usable enough and to partially replace a personal nutritionist, one might sell access to it one day.

Re:Show HN: An API for scraping recipe web pages by rojobuffalo on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @06:38PM (#14800609)
The plan is to put out an alpha release this month. In the meantime you might check out https://www.eatthismuch.com/.

I'm not that experienced with databases; so exposing the design might be unwise from a security perspective. I'm warm to the idea of open sourcing in the future though. I've only shared repo access with a few trusted engineers. If you think you might want to contribute, hmu ryan at terra dot farm.

Re:Show HN: An API for scraping recipe web pages by pdimitar on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:30PM (#14807177)
Unfortunately I am way too busy lately and I feel I would only leech and not contribute, so better keep me out for now.

I have a very keen interest in the area however! What is most interesting for me recently is how exactly is such data represented in computer structures? Since I know that drawing example graphs and giving good examples would swallow huge amounts of time, I asked if the code is open-source so I could reverse-engineer the data model myself and not pester anyone. =)

I fully understand you not wanting to OSS it yet. I'll be extremely interested if you do that one day in the future.