[mythtv-users] Another Idea for Myth

Jeremy Hanmer jeremy at hq.newdream.net
Thu Jan 29 01:45:12 EST 2004


oh yeah, I forgot the url  :)

http://hust.la/recipe.tgz

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 22:30, Jeremy Hanmer wrote:
> I apologize for replying to myself, but I got the script for converting
> cooking.com recipes into recipeml format finished.  It's only
> requirement is the html2text utility (I was too lazy to do the html
> parsing myself).
> 
> It requires you to save the recipe html file locally right now.  I'll
> add http support tomorrow if I have the time.  It's been tested on 5
> separate recipes and seems to work fine, but I'm sure there's probably a
> bug or twenty in there (and the code is ugly as hell since I was racing
> the battery on my laptop).
> 
> On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 18:16, Jeremy Hanmer wrote:
> > Looking at the recipes on cooking.com, I don't think it'll be overly
> > difficult to scrape the recipes from their lists and write a quick
> > script to output them into a recipeml format.  I may give this a shot in
> > the next few days and let people know how it goes.
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 17:49, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 28 January 2004 15:39, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.formatdata.com/recipeml/
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Very interesting... now the only trick is finding a source of recipes in this 
> > > format.
> > > 
> > > -JAC
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> > > > > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Joseph A. Caputo
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 11:57 AM
> > > > > To: craig at fdllug.org; Discussion about mythtv
> > > > > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Another Idea for Myth
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Wednesday 28 January 2004 11:10, Craig Meyer wrote:
> > > > > > > Andrew Hogue wrote:
> > > > > > >>Hi,
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >>I just thought of something that might be cool for 
> > > > > MythTV.  A nice 
> > > > > > >>interface for Recipes.  I was thinking of putting a MythFrontend  
> > > > > > >>box in the kitchen with an LCD screen and a few pushbuttons for  
> > > > > > >>navigation and being able to view recipes would be ideal...
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >>What do you think?
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >>-- Andrew
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Definately a winner - I could schedule what my wife cooks 
> > > > > from the 
> > > > > > > couch then :)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Actually I had already planned on doing a lame version of 
> > > > > that for my 
> > > > > > wife as is. I was going to put a Directory in MythGallery 
> > > > > for recipies 
> > > > > > and convert her stuff into jpeg images. I would really love 
> > > > > to be able 
> > > > > > to impiment this the right way though. I wonder if a 
> > > > > developer is out 
> > > > > > there who would take on this project? It should actually be 
> > > > > very easy, 
> > > > > > but probably not one of the cooler projects.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have always wanted a decent recipe program.  What seems to 
> > > > > be missing 
> > > > > is a standard file format for recipes.  It would be nice if 
> > > > > recipes you 
> > > > > got off the web or on a CD were in some kind of easily 
> > > > > parseable format 
> > > > > (XML?) rather than arbitrarily formatted text/html/rtf/pdf/etc.
> > > > > 
> > > > > -JAC
> > > > > 
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