Get the Grub! | Recipes without the life story
De clutter recipes for free #
Find a recipe online and you will find that there is a lot of bloat. People often include life stories, long introductions and history lessons. If you are lucky, you can find the recipe buried at the bottom of the page in less than 5 minutes. I am guessing this is to rank higher on Google.
Get the Grub is able to search such web pages for the recipe and remove irrelevant information. It is totally free to use and there is no limit on how many recipes you can enter.
Here is a video showing how it works.
Use Web Scraping + NLP in your applications #
Get the Grub uses web scraping and natural language processing to extract recipes from web pages. The application:
- uses web scrapers to download the recipe page
- uses some techniques to analyse the text of the page
- find out where the ingredients and methods are
Web scraping and NLP are both great techniques to extract and analyse textual data. They can be used to:
- automatic data retrieval for 100s of webpages
- perform sentiment analysis
- summarise key information
Server + Database Management Included #
A web app like this will typically require a server to run the code on. Get the Grub also has a small database that allows admins to see what recipes people are querying. I can manage both the server and database for my clients so that they have a hassle free experience.