Suggestions for selfhosted recipe manager?

ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.org to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 5 points –

I like to cook, and for that I need a place where I can keep all my recipes. I'm currently using the app My Recipe Box. But it's closed source and full of ads. While the pro version is pretty cheap, I wanted to see if there were any open source apps for this.

Selfhosted apps will be nice. I'm fine with web access and no native app as well. If not selfhosted, I can also manage with open source apps with automatic backup of some sort.

The only feature that I really need is recipe scraping. Thanks for all your suggestions.

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I have been using mealie and it has been very good.

Nextcloud has a plugin called "Cookbook" which works pretty well as a recipe manager: https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/cookbook

Recipe scraping works well for well-established websites (who use standard: https://schema.org/Recipe). Small blogs don't use that and the scraper/importer doesn't work. It works on most sites I've tried though.

I don't really like the idea of Nextcloud, as I feel like it's a jack of all trades kinda software.

Recipe scrapers are interesting. Unfortunately, though, I can't seem to get them to work with most sites I use. It might be because most recipes I follow are Bengali, and come from smaller blogs. My Recipe Box works great with them. I wish they made their scraper public.

I have been pretty happy with tandoor recipes. It and mealie are pretty similar. It doesn't have a dedicated mobile app, but it is a progressive web app, and ihas worked well on my phone.

I chose tandoor because it did something that mealie didn't at the time I installed. But I don't recall what that was.

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The recipe import feature is quite nice - it worked flawlessly for most of the websites i tried

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