recipe2txt 0.1.0

Scrapes recipes and converts them to txt or markdown

Introduction

recipe2txt is a CLI-program that you can feed your urls of recipes and it spits out formatted cookbooks containing those recipes. Highlights include:

• asynchronous fetching of recipes
• formatted output either as txt- or markdown-file
• local caching of recipes

The program is a wrapper for the recipe-scrapers-library. Please visit their README.md if you would like to know which sites are supported.

WARNING

THIS SOFTWARE IS AT AN EARLY DEVELOPEMENT STAGE.

BE CAREFUL SETTING THE --output-FLAG, ANY EXISTING FILES WITH THE SAME NAME WILL BE OVERWRITTEN.

Usage

usage: recipes2txt [-h] [-u URL [URL ...]] [-f FILE [FILE ...]] [-o OUTPUT]
                   [-v {debug,info,warning,error,critical}] [-con CONNECTIONS] [-ia] [-c {only,new,default}] [-d]
                   [-t TIMEOUT] [-md] [-sa | -erase | -do DEFAULT_OUTPUT_FILE]

Scrapes URLs of recipes into text files

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u URL [URL ...], --url URL [URL ...]
                        URLs whose recipes should be added to the recipe-file
  -f FILE [FILE ...], --file FILE [FILE ...]
                        Text-files containing URLs (one per line) whose recipes should be added to the recipe-file
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Specifies an output file. If empty or not specified recipes will either be written into
                        the current working directory or into the default output file (if set). THIS WILL
                        OVERWRITE ANY EXISTING FILE WITH THE SAME NAME.
  -v {debug,info,warning,error,critical}, --verbosity {debug,info,warning,error,critical}
                        Sets the 'chattiness' of the program (default 'critical')
  -con CONNECTIONS, --connections CONNECTIONS
                        Sets the number of simultaneous connections (default 4). If package 'aiohttp' is not
                        installed the number of simultaneous connections will always be 1.
  -ia, --ignore-added   [NI]Writes recipe to file regardless if it has already been added
  -c {only,new,default}, --cache {only,new,default}
                        Controls how the program should handle its cache: With 'only' no new data will be
                        downloaded, the recipes will be generated from data that has been downloaded previously.
                        If a recipe is not in the cache, it will not be written into the final output. 'new' will
                        make the program ignore any saved data and download the requested recipes even if they
                        have already been downloaded. Old data will be replaced by the new version, if it is
                        available. The 'default' will fetch and merge missing data with the data already saved,
                        only inserting new data into the cache where there was none previously.
  -d, --debug           Activates debug-mode: Changes the directory for application data
  -t TIMEOUT, --timeout TIMEOUT
                        Sets the number of seconds the program waits for an individual website to respond(eg. sets
                        the connect-value of aiohttp.ClientTimeout)
  -md, --markdown       Generates markdown-output instead of .txt
  -sa, --show-appdata   Shows data- and cache-files used by this program
  -erase, --erase-appdata
                        Erases all data- and cache-files used by this program
  -do DEFAULT_OUTPUT_FILE, --default-output-file DEFAULT_OUTPUT_FILE
                        Sets a file where recipes should be written to if no output-file is explicitly passed via
                        '-o' or '--output'. Pass 'RESET' to reset the default output to the current working
                        directory. Does not work in debug mode (default-output-file is automatically set by
                        'tests/testfiles/data/default_output_location.txt').

[NI] = 'Not implemented (yet)'

Examples

python3 -m recipe2txt -u www.example-url.com/tastyrecipe www.other-examle-url.org/deliciousmeal -o ~/Documents/great-recipes.txt

See the Makefile-targets testrun1, testrun2 and testrun3 for more examples.