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Not sure about Electron. You would probably still need the parser to be Flex/C for performance. Even using Flex and C it takes about half an hour to import 250000 recipes. Sorry that I haven't done a build for MacOS. But I don't have a system for testing.

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Any chance that recipe dump is available online anywhere?

The thing is, I don't have the copyrights. I just downloaded the recipes from Glen's MealMaster archive and imported it. But MealMaster is human readable text if you just want to look at the data.

Thanks, found the archive but looks like the “140,000 more recipes” link is dead.

How did you deal with the ambiguity in representation of ingredients? For instance, looking through some examples it seems like an ingredient description can continue onto two lines, and that is indistinguishable from an ingredient followed by an ingredient with no measurement.

Ed: also, do you intelligently deal with the “or” clauses in some ingredient lists? It seems their syntax is ill defined as well.

An ingredient continuation line has to start with a "-". Otherwise the software can't recognise it. There is no intelligence in the parser.

Interesting, a quick manual parse suggests that would work for a majority of cases, but there is definitely a sizable minority of recipes playing fast and loose with formatting.

I am not sure which link you mean.

Glen's Mealmaster archive is here: http://thehoseys.org/buster/recipes.html

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