@jitl/recipe-data-scraper

A node library that takes a given url and scrapes that webpage for recipe data. This library supports websites that utilize either microdata or JSON-LD. The function returns a promise where on success will return the recipe and on fail will throw an error with the message: 'Could not find recipe data'

npm install recipe-data-scraper

Example Usage:

import recipeDataScraper from  'recipe-data-scraper';

async function (...) {
  try {
    // pass a full url to a page that contains a recipe
    const recipe = await recipeDataScraper(url);
    res.json({ recipe });
  } catch (error) {
    res.status(500).json({ message: err.message });
  }
}

Or:

import recipeDataScraper from 'recipe-data-scraper';

recipeDataScraper(url)
  .then((recipe) => res.json({ recipe }))
  .catch((err) => res.status(500).json({ message: err.message }));

Recipe Model:

property	type
url	string
name	string
image	string
description	string
cookTime	string
cookTimeOriginalFormat	string
prepTime	string
prepTimeOriginalFormat	string
totalTime	string
totalTimeOriginalFormat	string
recipeYield	string
recipeIngredients	array of strings
recipeInstructions	array of strings
recipeCategories	array of strings
recipeCuisines	array of strings
recipeTypes	array of strings
keywords	array of strings

CLI:

If you want to try this library without a UI, you can clone it locally and run it via the command line.

git clone [e-mail]:thelifenadine/recipe-data-scraper.git
npm install
npm run test-url