Open Recipes Update
In April, we blogged about an open source project we were starting called Open Recipes. We’d like to update you on how that’s been going and what we plan to do next.
Several of us from Fictive Kin have been actively contributing, and we’ve had contributions from nine generous volunteers, too. That may not sound like a lot, but most of these people have never contributed to an open source project before, and we’re extremely grateful for their help and proud of the results so far.
Here they are, in case you want to thank them, too:
Adam Dutko
Dan McGowan
Eric Leclerc
Jonathan Suh
josefeg
Justin Duke
mickaobrien
Mike Firesheets
princesspanda
They’ve helped us do something we couldn’t have done without them; in just two months, we’ve surpassed the number of recipes Punchfork had when it was shut down! There are currently more than 140,000 recipes, and that number is growing every day. You can see more details on our stats page. Feels pretty good.
Next, we want to do more than just provide the data to those who know how to use it. While we provide daily dumps of our database, you probably don’t want to parse JSON or query a database when it’s time to eat. I mean, maybe you do, and that’s cool, but we want to make this data accessible for normal humans, too. So, we’re currently working on a simple recipe search engine based on the Open Recipes data.
We also want to make it even easier to contribute. Parsing recipes isn’t easy, and although we try to be very helpful and supportive, we know it can be a little intimidating. Heck, even just figuring out how to use GitHub can be enough of a barrier to keep someone from contributing. So, we’re going to work on providing easier ways to submit new recipes and suggest changes and corrections to existing recipes.
Finally, we want to introduce you to Andreas Birkebæk, our new Open Recipes community manager. He’s the go-to guy for any questions, concerns, and ideas you have. You can reach him on Twitter at @openrecipes and via email at [email protected].
We’re really enjoying building Open Recipes, and we’re excited about the future of this project. If you’re already working with us, thank you! And, if you want to help, let us know -- even if you’re not a developer.
The adventure continues. This is going to be a lot of fun.











