How I built an importer to extract recipes from HTML.

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Using a combination of heuristics and reading metadata, Saffron is able to import recipes from almost any website.

Behind the scenes, 2 things occur:

A request is sent to the website to get the HTML

The HTML is parsed into fields like ingredients, instructions, title, etc…

Let’s dig into how each one of these works...

How I built an importer to extract recipes from HTML.

...

Using a combination of heuristics and reading metadata, Saffron is able to import recipes from almost any website.

Behind the scenes, 2 things occur:

A request is sent to the website to get the HTML

The HTML is parsed into fields like ingredients, instructions, title, etc…

Let’s dig into how each one of these works...