Extracting Online Recipes, and Arranging and Generating a Cookbook

摘要

As users browse web pages online they may come across a recipe in which they are interested, included in a web page. The user may then interact with a web browser tool, thereby expressing interest in the recipe. A recipe book server extracts the recipe from the web page including the recipe. The recipe book server may provide the user with an interface, via a web page for example, for editing or modifying the recipe. The recipe book server, on receiving a selection of recipes from the user to include in a cookbook may generate one or more candidate cookbooks using cookbook templates by populating the cookbook templates with the selected recipes. The user may select and modify a cookbook from the candidate cookbooks. The recipe book server then prepares the selected cookbook for printing, and may send the prepared cookbook to be printed by a professional printer.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving identifications of web pages that include one or more recipes in which one or more users have requested to add to a recipe book; accessing, by a recipe book server, the web pages including the one or more recipes; for each of a plurality of the accessed web pages:
extracting from the accessed web page a set of ingredients and instructional text components of the one or more recipes included in the accessed web page,identifying metadata associated with the one or more recipes, the metadata of a recipe selected from a group consisting of: an author of the recipe, a title of the recipe, nutritional information associated with the recipe, suggested cooking tools to use while following the recipe, reviews of the recipe, an estimated preparation time for the recipe, an estimated cook time for the recipe, and any combination thereof, andgenerating a page for a recipe book that comprises the extracted set of ingredients, instructional text components, and the identified metadata for the one or more recipes included in the accessed web page; and generating a recipe book that comprises a plurality of the generated pages.