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Takes a recipe website URL and transforms it to a plain-text version for reading or printing.

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2020-04-18 · latest 2025-12-27

Mentions per year 7 mentions · busiest year 2020 (3)
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  1. …recipes from {{domain}}" no matter what domain you put in. This really rubbed me the wrong way. https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe/blob/39868809c1...
  2. Plain Old Recipe: takes online recipes and removes the cruft. https://www.plainoldrecipe.com https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe Things I want to do: 1. Improved print-friendly format 2. Ability to format to arbitrary sizes (for…
  3. …remove the extra content from online recipes: https://github.com/kevlened/foodmarklet It’s based on https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe , but it works entirely in the client.
    comment by kevlened · 2023-10-25 · in Wait, what's a bookmarklet?
  4. …my cooking app: https://www.mysaffronapp.com/ [1] https://github.com/hhursev/recipe-scrapers [2] https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe/blob/master/par... [3] https://www.benawad.com/scraping-recipe-websites/
    comment by benawad · 2020-06-26 · in Turn recipe websites into plain text
  5. …is "Buchstabensalat" - letter salad. So maybe it's a very subtle joke. Otherwise there's a PR open: https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe/pull/1
    comment by cstuder · 2020-06-26 · in Turn recipe websites into plain text