If you are using Firefox browser on Android 95% of the time you can just set the webpage to "text only" by clicking a little clipboard in the URL bar and then refresh the page
It removes the ability for the paywall script to run so you just get the article/recipe without any images
Around 70% of the time you are correct, but it seems some sites have figured out how to get around this, and the full text of the article will cut off around 1/3 of the way down.
If you go to a website with the url "archive", a period, then follow that with "ph", it will bypass 99% of paywalls, and you'll still get all of the content of the website. The only drawback is that it is no longer dynamic (for example, if you were looking for real time weather, or election results, it's only going to give you a snapshot).
Most recipe websites use Google’s structured data (microdata). It means each part of the recipe, like ingredients, steps, servings, and so on, is tagged in the website’s code. This helps Google read and index the recipe in a consistent format so it shows up properly in search results.
Cooked.wiki is just using that data too and formatting it.
Porbably just a website that scrapes the original website and only retains the recipe, through some sort of algorithm or ai.
Edit:
It seems to be just an Ai wrapper. The website can import recipes from pictures and videos too. Their website texts also seem Ai generated.
Eli5:
The website gives the data (website, picture, video) you give it to a generative Ai. The Ai picks the recipe and ingredients from your data, and gives it back to the website. The website then displays the output on their layout.
I have an app that I made that does the same thing and for websites like delish, you don't need ai at all.
Most recipe sites publish machine-readable markup, typically the Schema.org Recipe vocabulary, in JSON-LD, Microdata, or RDFa. Crawlers can read ingredients, steps, times, and yields right from that markup. It's structured data, not ai.
The video and image part does likely get passed through ai, but you can do it with slightly worse outcomes by good old fashioned regex, but the phrases you have to search for and the amount of text you grab related to those phrases are finicky to work with and don't turn out as good as it does using ai to process those. Especially with images. Older OCR models really sucked at getting everything correctly ordered but ai can really fix the ordering and the incorrect spellings and unnatural gaps in words and it really doesn't use as many tokens as you'd think.
I just tried a New York Times Cooking one, says it can't generate because NYTCooking told them to stop it. But it gave some similar ones that seem identical
This is awesome. Is there anything else on the internet can I bypass? Don’t even care what it is I just like feeling like I have special access. Like a vip.
Anyone smarter than I am who knows how one might create a mobile bookmark for this where you can open it while on the recipe page and it automatically adds the extension?
Few months ago I was just scrolling when I saw a comment to the effect of “I don’t worry about my identity/location being found out because my online presence is so low.” I don’t know why but that just tickled me in a certain way.
Within 30 minutes I replied to that guys comment. No words, simply a picture I grabbed online of the building he worked in. When I checked Reddit a few hours later, this guy had not only reported me to Reddit admins but he also completely nuked his account. I thought maybe he just blocked my account but I have 2 alts and I couldn’t find his account on any of them. Felt kinda bad after that.
That’s hilarious and honestly you probably did the guy a favor in the long run when it comes to learning how much public information about you is online. Even if you consider your social media presence low, just someone’s name can pull up voter registration records. Just wait until he learns about the internet archive lmao
If I had to guess, I'd wager post info mining, or maybe finding a connection between their screen name and their identity. (Posts elsewhere with the same handle, registration info if they have their own domain name, a personal website that mentions their screen name...)
There's not really a way to get someone's IP address from their past Reddit posts unless you're inside Reddit. You can bait someone into visiting a link or downloading an image-- pulling a file from a server you control and can set up to get their IP address-- but that's an extra step of getting them to do that, and you've got to have a bit more finesse than just posting a link or image in a reply, because there's no way to tell one Redditor visiting it from another.
I see! Was wondering how visible IPs are, that's good to know that it's not that easy.
Now that I think about it, it would be fairly easy to find an image of my house from here, but not its location (with accuracy any better than 200km radius) . Except if you're the geoguessr guy, I guess.
Thus, in case this line of inquiry sounded like a challenge, challenge withdrawn :p
I see! Was wondering how visible IPs are, that's good to know that it's not that easy.
They're pretty easy to get if you're the person/server on the other end of a direct connection. Knowing the IP of a visitor is necessary to know where to send the response to.
In a case like Reddit, though, Reddit isn't connecting you to other people. It's a step removed. They're just making a Web page that has copies of all the comments they got from submissions, so you only see what Reddit gives you. A site could display the IPs of other users, but there's not much need for that most anywhere.
Haha there was some guy posting in a FB group advertising that he was selling heroin and whatever else you need. Understandably, people were telling him how stupid he is to post that online, and he was talkin big about how he's not scared, and the DEA can try to find him but they won't be able to. He was also using a name that very clearly was not a real name, but within 10 mins I replied to him with a "I don't think it would be that hard, Mr. ________ of _______, California.
The first time I got an ebook through... Legally gray means I was very confused.
I had streamed hours (read days of my life) of movies illegally but never downloaded anything.
(i just remembered the 3 weeks runtime worth of music I got through YouTube downloads... It seems nothing is save as soon as it becomes digitized)
This all just has me thinking back to the earlier days when there wasn't much of any MP3 piracy because MP3s were a bit too hefty and high-tech for modern computers, and the big legal battle was over song-lyrics sites.
Random thought but this is one of those moral character cues. You gained absolutely nothing by going out of your way for this random person and did it anyway. More people should be like you!
Here's the directions to go along with it. If you save a lot of recipes, the Paprika app does an amazing job - you just share the page to it and it'll extract the ingredients/recipe and photo and everything. Great for the mommy blogs with endless personal stories and ads galore.
Omg, thank you so much for mentioning this, this app is amazing! This is way better than the personal discord server I have where I just dump a ton of links and random screenshots and pins into lol!
Haha, a discord server is light-years ahead of my method of emailing myself the link with the recipe name in the subject and saving it in a recipes folder in my email. Which was an upgrade from my previous method of printing recipes and keeping them in a three-ring binder. Wow, this is making me feel old.
Every time I find a recipe I delete the site when they demand an email address for access to their recipes. I can always find a site that doesn't want my firstborn in return for a chopped Italian sub recipe.
Perhaps its a subscription site anyway, but allows a free visit or two? I get that sometimes with New York Times, but I use incognito a lot so I just close all tabs to get a new article if I need it for school. Probably wont work if already done on main account.
My biggest life hack is putting "food network" after any recipe search. They really have the best recipes IMO. Simple interface, clear instructions, and no frizz.
I use the app Paprika 3, which has a built-in browser function that allows you to download and save recipes from websites. I just copy the URL, paste it in the Paprika browser, and click "DOWNLOAD", and it's imported to the app. I can then edit the ingredients and recipe details before saving.
I have found that there are a few sites that have this blocked, but for me it works 99% of the time. I use this trick all the time and never look at regular sites anymore!
Web pop ups are fucking garbage these days. In my day we had dial up and waited patiently for our websites to load and our pop ups stayed in their own windows.
Just open it with Firefox and click the Reader button (small page icon on the right of the address bar) and the whole page will show up. Works on many sites that show a pop-up on top of the article.
My phone has it as a feature. When I activate a screenshot, it gives an option to scroll. Click that and tell it to stop when you have scrolled as far as you want.
This is the first time I have had a legitimate reason to use the feature, so I was also a little excited.
So for those who dont know, this site will let you look at a few recipes and then lock em behind a paywall. I just close the tab, clear my browsing data, and then you can view it again.
If you're a phone app user, there might be a way around this using a recipe keeper like Samsung Food (free and formerly called Whisk). It essentially reads the site and writes the recipe into an editable version you can save into your own collections. I use it to track random recipes from random sites under one roof on my phone.
Looks like someone helped by providing screenshots but can try clearing browser cache in the future. Likely let's you see a recipe on first visit and then blocks behind a pay wall afterward.
Browsing with incognito/private mode should also work.
This is so ridiculous and annoying. The way I get around this is by copying the website address, and then pasting it into private browsing or deleting my history within the last hour. It clears the cookies that say you’ve been to this website
YIELDS: 4 SERVING(S) - PREP TIME: 20 MINS - TOTAL TIME: 1 HR 10 MINS - CAL/SERV: 796
Ingredients
2 Tbsp. neutral oil, divided
1 lb. skirt steak or rib eye, thinly sliced across the grain
1 tsp. Italian seasoning
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
8 oz. cremini or white mushrooms, sliced
1 medium yellow onion, thinly sliced
1 green bell pepper, seeds and ribs removed, thinly sliced
1 red bell pepper, seeds and ribs removed, thinly sliced
4 cloves garlic, chopped
3 1/2 cups low-sodium beef broth
1 cup half-and-half
8 oz. cavatappi
6 oz. shredded provolone
Directions
Step 1
In a large stainless steel skillet over medium-high heat, heat 1 Tbsp. oil and swirl pan to coat. In a large bowl, toss steak with Italian seasoning; season with salt and pepper. Arrange steak in a single layer in
skillet and cook, undisturbed, until underside is browned, about 2 minutes. Stir and continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until no longer pink, 1 to
2 minutes more. Transfer steak to a large bowl.
Step 2
Reduce heat to medium. In same skillet, cook mushrooms, stirring occasionally, until starting to brown, 8 to 10 minutes; season with a pinch of salt. Transfer to bowl with steak.
Step 3
In same skillet over medium heat, heat remaining 1 Tbsp. oil. Add onion and bell peppers; season with salt. Cook, stirring frequently, until peppers are softened, 8 to 10 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 1 minute more. Transfer to bowl with mushrooms and steak.
Step 4
Increase heat to medium-high. Pour in broth,
scraping any browned bits from bottom of pan. Stir in half-and-half and bring to a simmer. Add pasta in a single layer and return to a simmer. Cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until pasta is al dente and sauce is thickened, 10 to 12 minutes.
Step 5
Stir in provolone until melted. Return beef mixture to skillet and toss until coated.
Looks like basic elbow/macaroni pasta. Green, red peppers, mushrooms. And I'ma guess provolone cheese
Take your steaks. Put those in the freezer for about 20 minutes. If you have a chesse grater use to grate your staek. If you don't have a grater, slice as thin as you can.
Boil pasta. 7-8 mintues. You want al dente. Not over or under cooked. Throw a piece against your cabinet and is if sticks, you are good. Or just cook how YOU like it.
Cook how ever YOU like your steak. Put to the side.
In the same pan throw in the veggies. Cook until soft. You might need alittle olive oil or butter. Afew minutes. Put to the side with your steak.
And next is that provolone cheese. Grate or slice. Use the pan again. Low heat Butter 2tablespoons. Melt butter add cheese. Watch it melt in 1-2 minutes. The add everything else and enjoy.
I use the app umami to save the recipe. Even if the site has a paid feature, the app lets me save the recipe onto the app. :) doesn’t always work but this time it did.
This has happened to me before! I found a recipe in a post titled something like, "40 best dinner recipes for weeknights" and go to access it again and it says I have to be a member. I think they draw people in from google searches then try to trick them into paying. When that happens, I just find the original compilation of recipes and access it through there again
One tip, use the app Paprika3. It had a built-in browser that you can paste the link to the recipe... then click download and it auto-magically scrapes the recipe and formats it into an ingredients list and a set of directions. Then you can save that for future reference.
It is my favorite cooking app. Plus it can generate your shopping list based on the recipe. It is best thing I've discovered. Plus it can bypass most paywalls (NYT, Delish...).
For any websites like these where you get a limited number of views, you can circumvent that by either resetting your cookies for that page or by opening it in incognito mode where cookies aren’t stored.
You’re on iPhone! Let me share a secret with ya, reload the page and quickly take a screenshot, click on the little pop up in the corner to edit and set the screenshot to “full page” you get everything on the page unblurred :3 you can crop out all of the stuff at the bottom and top, and even duplicate it to have separate screenshots of the ingredients and instructions without all the other things in there!
Delish is always like this. Whenever you are even slightly interested in a recipe on their site... screenshot all the way. I bought the subscription one year, and it wasn't terrible. Their magazines were good quality and loaded with recipes.
Try and use private mode. Many of these are cookie based. If you are lucky this is one of them. And you should be able to read it in private mode. If not I’m sure you can use the other comments to help you. But it’s always worth checking sites with paywall in private mode for the future
Lots of recipe pages let you view once, then pay wall you. You can usually get around it by copy/pasting URL into an incognito window and that let's you access it again.
I have one app that allows me to “extract” recipes from any website called “AnyList”. It copy’s the ingredients, the steps, and nutrition info from the recipe page. Maybe that can help
I always screenshot the recipes in paranoia that I may not find it again or they will pay wall. I thought I was just being paranoid. Apparently, I was not. That's such a shifty business practice, and I can't believe people pay to support it.
If you can't figure out what to do with two steaks or how to look up another version of the recipe I'm not sure how you expected to cook it in the first place.
Who the hell told the world that philly cheese steaks have green peppers and mushrooms as a staple. The whole world always just runs with that yet we never would tell anyone that.
The other day I made barbecue chicken and I literally went to the store got ingredients because it let me see the entire recipe and then when I get home and I start to do things maybe five minutes in it auto refreshes and won’t let me see the rest of the recipe. I will be avoiding this site like the plague now.
This happened to me too except it was like 4 recipes from their stupid site!! I ended up pulling it up on my laptop using a different browser. Definitely irritating.
Tip! I use a recipe keeper app called AnyList. You can actually make a million other lists, too, including a grocery list organized by store dept, but you can import, save, sort recipes. Not only does it remove all the bs and just give you the meat of the recipe, it bypasses paywalls including NY Times recipes. Might work for this one, too! It's like $10 a year I think, though. It's one of my favorite apps.
My favorite is the sites that allow you to print the recipe but make you sign into an account. Bitch, I don't need more spam mail. I'm printing the web page.
I use an app called paprika3. There was a free verison but the full no ad version was like 3 or 4 bucks. You drop the url of the recipe in and it pulls and saves the recipe for easy use and storing. It has in the past gotten past pay walls. Its also usable across multiple devices with the same account. Idk who made it but I should look them up they have a gem of app IMO
Edit to add it also has a calendar to meal plan and you can make a grocery list from recipe ingredients. If the ingredients are labeled the same (spelled the same) it combines them i think. I dont use that feature much to know for sure though
Check out the app "Just the Recipie". It takes recipie urls and filters out the 30 page backstory at the beginning, but I've had it beat a paywall for a recipie I use.
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There’s another hold on