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Re:Ask HN: Best Recipe Search Engine? by TooCreative on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:40PM (#24631389)
It seems you create the data by scraping other websites?
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Re:Ask HN: Best Recipe Search Engine? by jka on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:45PM (#24631439)
Correct! With many thanks and credit due to the excellent recipe website crawling community behind the recipe-scrapers[1] Python library.

[1] - https://pypi.org/project/recipe-scrapers/

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Re:Ask HN: Best Recipe Search Engine? by TooCreative on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @10:08AM (#24638869)
I would think re-publishing that data violates the copyright of the original publishers.
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Re:Ask HN: Best Recipe Search Engine? by unhammer on Thursday October 01, 2020 @03:12AM (#24648213)
Ingredient lists and bare directions are not copyrightable, though the wording and style might make the directions copyrightable (IANAL, but see https://duckduckgo.com/?t=canonical&q=recipe+copyright&ia=we... ). https://masterwiki.how/courses/how-to-make-perfect-scrambled... probably has some copyrightable phrases =P

So direct copying without any transformation could be a bit risky.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Recipe Search Engine? by TooCreative on Thursday October 01, 2020 @04:03AM (#24648555)
Not only because of the wording. Collections are prone to copyright. So scraping a bunch of receipes and republishing it would violate the copyright holder of that collection of receipes.

Also - what about the images? Where are they from? It looks like they are scraped too.

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