I extract recipes from TikTok, Instagram, and the messy web

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I kept losing recipes. You know how it goes — you're scrolling TikTok at midnight, see an amazing pasta dish, save it, and never find it again. So I built TasteBuddy to fix that for myself. What I didn't expect: parsing recipes from the internet is a rabbit hole that goes deep.The thing is, recipe content is scattered everywhere in completely different formats. A food blog might have nice JSON-LD markup. A TikTok? Just someone talking over a video. An Instagram reel? Recipe buried in the comments. Pinterest? Links to blogs that died three years ago.So I ended up building specialized extractors for each platform.*Websites* are the "easy" case. I look for JSON-LD with `@type: Recipe` first — m

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Website: taste-buddy.app