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I spent some time gathering nutrition data from the USDA and massaging it into a usable form.
The resulting 186 megabyte SQLite database
The process was a lot less straightforward than I'd thought it would be, so hopefully this will help others trying to make similar use of the USDA's datasets.
A shoutout to Robin for sending me a link to some public domain recipes served up on a clean, lightweight website:
I'll be pulling those recipes into my collection as well. These are available on Github as regularly-formatted markdown files, so the process of converting to YAML should go much, much easier!
I've also managed to pull in the recipes off Grim Grains and have begun the process of adding nutrition sources to them.
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I've completed preliminary conversion of the HTML downloaded to YAML recipes. I may have to repeat this step as I discover errors through use, so I'm holding on to the original HTML for now. It's only 2GB of raw data and 31MB (yes, thirty-one megabytes) as an `xz -9`ed tarball, so I'm not in a hurry to delete it.
I made a good start with grep and sed, successfully converting some recipes with only those tools. But there was enough irregularity that it became apparent using only those tools would be more trouble than I was willing to put up with. I incorporated `pup` into my toolset for this problem:
pup: Parsing HTML at the command line
First I flattened the HTML cache, incorporating the unique ID element of each recipe's URL into the filenames because I discovered collisions between 372 of the recipe names would occur without it. This also allows me to reconstruct the original URL if I need to, as the name and the ID are the only unique elements of each recipe's URL.
My method for figuring out the number of collisions, for those wondering:
$ find html-cache -type f -exec basename {} \; > recipe-names
$ sort recipe-names | uniq > recipe-names-unique
$ expr $(wc -l recipe-names) - $(wc -l recipe-names-unique)
372
$
And the flattening script:
#!/usr/bin/env sh set -e find "$1" -type f | while read f; do tmp="$(echo "$f" | rev | cut -d/ -f-2 | rev)" new="$(echo "$tmp" | cut -d/ -f2)-$(echo "$tmp" | cut -d/ -f1)" mv "$f" "$1/$new" rmdir "$(dirname "$f")" done
scraping-foodista/flatten-html-cache.sh
Then I ran the `convert-to-yaml.sh` script on the contents of the HTML cache directory:
$ mkdir recipes
$ find html-cache -type f -exec "./convert-to-yaml.sh" recipes {} \;
The script:
#!/usr/bin/env sh
# Dependency: pup
set -e
[ "$2" ] || { echo "usage: $0 <recipe dir> <html source>"; exit 1; }
echo "Converting $2"
mkdir -p "$1/images" || true
img="$1/images/$(basename "$2").jpg"
imgurl="$(pup -f "$2" 'div.featured-image img attr{src}')"
[ -f "$img" ] || curl -s -o "$img" "$imgurl"
title="$(pup -f "$2" '#page-title text{}')"
author="$(pup -f "$2" '.username text{}')"
imgcredit="$(pup -f "$2" 'div.featured-image a text{}')"
if [ "$imgcredit" ]; then
imgcrediturl="$(pup -f "$2" 'div.featured-image a attr{href}' | tail -n1)"
else
imgcrediturl=""
imgcredit="$author"
fi
description="$(pup -f "$2" 'div.field-type-text-with-summary text{}' \
| sed -z 's/\n\n\+/\n\n/g')"
ingredients="$(pup -f "$2" "div[itemprop="ingredients"]" \
| tr -d "\n" \
| sed 's|</div>|</div>\n|g; s|<[^>]\+>||g;' \
| sed 's/^ \+//g; s/^/- /g' | tr -s ' ')"
directions="$(pup -f "$2" "div[itemprop="recipeInstructions"].step-body" \
| tr -d "\n" \
| sed 's|</div>|</div>\n|g; s|<[^>]\+>||g;' \
| sed 's/^ \+//g; s/^[0-9]\+\. \+//g; s/^/- /g' | tr -s ' ')"
tags="$(pup -f "$2" 'div.field-type-taxonomy-term-reference a text{}' \
| tr "\n" "," | sed 's/,$//g; s/,/, /g;')"
cat > "$1/$(basename "$2").yml" <<EOF
---
layout: recipe
title: $title
author: $author
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
image: $img
image_credit: $imagecredit
image_credit_url: $imagecrediturl
tags: $tags
ingredients:
$ingredients
directions:
$(echo "$directions" | sed 's/ / /g')
---
$(echo "$description" | sed 's/ / /g')
EOF
scraping-foodista/convert-to-yaml.sh
Still not sure about those `image_credit` and `image_credit_url` keys. Might convert to kebab-case later.
At this point, the recipes directory weighs in at 733MB, with 564MB of it being images.
I downloaded all the URLs I'd scraped previously into an "HTML cache" directory, rate limiting the script to no faster than 10 requests per second.
#!/usr/bin/env sh
[ "$2" ] || { >&2 echo "usage: $0 <cache directory> <url list file>" && exit; }
export CACHE_DIR="$1"
tmp="$(mktemp)"
trap 'rm "$tmp"' EXIT INT HUP
cat > "$tmp" <<"EOF"
url="$1"
path="$CACHE_DIR/$(echo "$url" | sed 's|https\?://||')"
if [ -f "$path" ]; then
echo "Already exists, skipping: $path"
else
echo "Caching to $path"
dir="$(dirname "$path")"
mkdir -p "$dir"
curl -s -o "$path" "$url"
# rate limit, don't be *too* obnoxious
sleep 1
fi
EOF
chmod +x "$tmp"
cat "$2" | xargs -P 10 -n 1 "$tmp"
scraping-foodista/cache-html.sh
I compiled the list of recipe URLs for the script above using this script:
#!/usr/bin/env sh
set -e
# The "pause" indicates how many seconds to wait between pages.
# Pages are 0-indexed. To start from the beginning, pass "0" as the start.
# The "end" is exclusive. To pull through page 282, pass "282" as the end.
# (Page 282 is at index 281.)
[ "$3" ] || { >&2 echo "usage: $0 <pause> <start> <end>" && exit 1; }
pause="$1"
page="$2"
while [ "$page" != "$3" ]; do
# only show diagnostic output if this is an interactive terminal
[ ! -t 1 ] || echo "Fetching page $(expr $page + 1)..."
curl -s "https://www.foodista.com/browse/recipes?page=$page" \
| grep -oP '<a href="/recipe/\K[^\"]+' \
| sed 's|^|https://www.foodista.com/recipe/|'
sleep $pause
page=$(expr $page + 1)
done
scraping-foodista/recipe-urls.sh