How to determine which ingredients matched a search result?
I’m interested in searching for recipes based on ingredients and knowing which of my ingredients are included in the resulting recipe
Currently I’m using the 'Complex Recipe Search '
I can see how many ingredients were used, and how many I’m missing:
"usedIngredientCount": 3,
"missedIngredientCount": 5,
I’ve also set filling ingredients to true.
Sometimes it will say there are used ingredients but not list them
"usedIngredientCount": 2,
"usedIngredients": [],
Other times the resulting ingredient name won’t match the name that i searched for. Technically its the correct item, but it makes it really hard for me to work with.
For example, i wanted a recipe that includes ground beef and it found a recipe which included the following information
"name": "ground beef chuck",
"originalString": "1 1/2 lbs ground beef chuck (80% lean)",
"metaInformation": [
"80%",
"lean",
"( )"
],
"extendedName": "80% lean ground beef chuck",
I cannot compare “ground beef” == “ground beef chuck” to figure out if the recipe actually includes ground beef.
TLDR: I know the number of ingredients that matched, the name of those ingredients according to your recipe, but I am unable to determine my submitted ingredients matched. Does that make sense?
Any idea how i could work around these problems?
Thanks
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Again, sorry for the long wait. You can parse your ingredients using this endpoint https://market.mashape.com/spoonacular/recipe-food-nutrition#parse-ingredients which will give you the ids from our end. With those you can reliably compare with the ids returned by the search.
Also I now included an array “unusedIngredients” which lists the ingredients from your query which did NOT match any ingredients in the matched recipe.
Best,
David
Sorry for the long wait. I understood your problem and will look into it.
To add an example use case that I’m looking to solve.
The user makes a list of ingredients they want in a recipe and clicks submit
Beside their list, I want to put a green or red icon indicating whether a given recipe includes the ingredient they specified