gourd

Go(lang) Universal Recipe Database

etymology: Before modern technology, people would use hollowed out gourds as food storage containers.

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Gourd is a recipe database that can be used for meal planning and generating ingredient lists.

this project is a WIP

features

This is comprised mulitple components:

1. api OpenAPI 3.0 REST API, defined in internal/api/openapi.yaml
2. ui in React + Typescript, using generated openapi clients
3. scraper for saving recipes from websites (nytimes, seriouseats) for later analysis.
   • This currently works on websites using json+ld with the appropriate schema
4. parser for extracting structured information from freetext ingredient line items.
   • e.g. 1 1/2 cups flour (180g), sifted will be parsed into {ingredient: flour, amount: 1.5, unit: cup, modifier: sifted.
   • This leverages nickysemenza/ingredient-parser and is exposed to the UI via WebAssembly.
5. usda is used for mapping ingredients to their USDA database equivalent, which has very detailed nutrition information
   • e.g. plain strawberries or C&H brown sugar
   • This dataset also contains the imperial to metric mappings (e.g. the data from the back of the flour bag that says 1/4 cup = 30 grams)
6. cli for interacting with the api instead using the UI
   • this is used for importing/exporting recipes, as well as loading metadata