Slightly-clickbait title: while I am working on creating my own search engine, that’s not nearly finished yet.
However, that project made me realize that there isn’t any good option for searching the variety of open-source and no-bullshit online cookbooks that exist!
That annoyed me, but lo and behold, I’ve already setup a YaCy instance once, so it’s dead easy to run another that just crawls cookbooks! So, really, I’m now running another instance of a search engine, but I haven’t quite made a search engine yet.
So, without further ado, I present cooking.search.thoughtsofmine.ca!
As of now, it crawls:
- GrimGrains by Hundred Rabbits (who have many other cool projects I follow and whom you should totally check out)
- Based.Cooking by Luke Smith (who has a ton of political beliefs I am very opposed to but who is somehow extremely consistently on-point when it comes to technology)
- No Nonsense Cooking by Pascal Riesinger (whom I know literally nothing about)
- WikiBooks Cookbook by the Wikimedia Foundation and a presumably large number of users
- I was also going to add Jeffrey Thompson’s Recipe Book, but it does some weird web-app stuff with fragment identifiers (hashes) to identify different recipe pages, which has the unfortunate effect of making most crawlers think those recipe pages don’t exist. Weird decision, but whatever, there should be plenty of recipes covered by the other 4 websites.
Stay tuned for whenever I finish the actual search engine I’m building. That should be very interesting.
…Oh! P.S! The “another” part is apparently unclear! I created a YaCy instance for this blog, but I guess I never posted about it!
It’s available on the home page of the blog, and from experience, it’s even easier than using the tags or posts lists!
Wow, this post has so many exclamation marks.