Ask HN: Where can I buy/download a recipe database?
For my next project I need a recipe database with pictures of the food.
I did come across http://www.odditysoftware.com/page-datasales226.htm but that doesn't include photos.
Also, I know there is http://www.opensourcefood.com/ which I think I can safely "scrape" since all the recipes have Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License as long as I attribute the original author.
I was wondering if anyone on HN knows of a better recipe database out there which I can buy.
Thanks! Is the data dump available at http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Statistics an option that might fit your needs? You might want to check it out unless you already did so. That looks like a really good one. Do you know what's the license? What would I need to do to comply with the license for a commercial mobile app? Have attribution where I display the article or data? What does share alike do in this case? Would I need to provide a link to the source for the application? Along the same lines, I have been looking for a database of ingrediants. Have you run across anything like that in your quest? No, but you can just find any recipe database and parse the ingredients out.