Instagram Recipe Explorer

I love discovering recipes on Instagram, but they quickly add up and it becomes harder to explore the previously saved recipes.

In this repo and website we achieve the following:

• Fetch saved recipes Instagram collection via instagrapi package (code not shown)
• Turn each post into a markdown document using a jinja2 template
• Build minimalist page with material-mkdocs, usually a docs page but has an easy implementation of a search feature which is useful here.

The main reason I did this is to get the search bar that mkdocs provides. If you want to explore the recipes I have saved, visit: https://testkitchen.luischav.es

Build & Publish site

First run poetry shell and execute the notebook that fetches, parses and saves the recipes (jupyter nbconvert --to notebook --execute ig_api.ipynb)

Build locally:

mkdocs build

Publish:

mkdocs gh-deploy

TODO

• Add tags to recipes that I have tried, perhaps as markdown metadata (still don't know how mkdocs handles metadata)
• Add I'm feeling lucky button
• Add js/ts logic to easily scale recipes linearly
• Do more advanced parsing of recipes - maybe with an LLM