hhursev / recipe-scrapers

Python package for scraping recipes data
MIT License
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Add Youfoodz #1120

Closed mlduff closed 1 month ago

mlduff commented 1 month ago

Please check that recipes published on the website you're requesting are public (we can't currently scrape recipes that require an account login), and add sample recipe URL(s) below:

Will implement myself.

jayaddison commented 1 month ago

I've closed the pull request for this because I don't personally consider what YouFoodz are presenting here to be recipes. That may be odd or overcautious, but I feel like what they're really presenting are ready-made food products, and so the instructions are not "how to combine ingredients to prepare a drink/meal" (what I'd consider to be a recipe) but "our company's guidelines to consumers about how this product of ours should be served".

It's not a hard-and-fast rule, but I think that a true recipe has to have the potential to stay valid if-and-when it outlasts the author(s), whether they're a person or a company, non-profit, government, AI or whatever other entities.

I don't think that's the case for the output of the scraper here - I know (or I think I know) approximately what's involved to prepare the spaghetti bolognese test case, but if I didn't, then the instructions as-is wouldn't be enough to approximate the meal from the constituent ingredient list.