Show HN: Plain Old Recipe: convert online recipes to plain-text

Recipe scraping is kind of a pet peeve of mine. People figured out how to do that early on and the result was recipe aggregation sites where you get three hundred variations of yellow cake (for example) with only slight unquantifiable variations - maybe someone was adjusting for altitude or humidity or scarcity or missing spoons or metric/imperial but all that got lost along the way. I think we could use less aggregation and more understanding of the underlying chemistry.

Not bad, although you may want a few other formats, in addition to HTML format: true plain ASCII text, plain Unicode text, and recipe format.

Also, it should be corrected so that it can be used as a command-line program (giving the URL and desired output format as command-line options, producing the output to stdout).

The ability to search for recipes (perhaps using a SQLite extension, or using SPARQL queries) would also be good, but that is something else than this, I suppose.

this seems like magic, nice work. made this crummy site readable, https://www.hellofresh.com/recipes/crispy-parmesan-chicken-5...