Gourmet Recipe PDF Exporter v1

Motivation

This program is intended to export the recipes in the Gourmet Recipe Manager (https://thinkle.github.io/gourmet/) as a pdf file. The requirements are:

1. Automation Support: Export the recipes even if Gourmet Recipe Manager isn't running.
2. Modern PDF design: Beautiful PDFs
3. Searches: Preprocessed searches on all recipes. For example, a list of all recipes that are vegetarian.

Usage

This program is used via commandline. An example call might be

Example: main.py -db_dir /home/user/.gourmet/recipes.db -export_dir /home/user/cooking -include_images -link_dir /home/user/cooking -builder "User (builder)"

• db_dir the absolute path to the Gourmet Recipe Manager database
• export_dir where to save the exported data.
• include_images omit if this option if you need small pdf documents.
• link_dir this prefix is used in the searches to link to the recipes. This can be used for example to link to an sdcard on a smartphone.
• builder A string which is added as metadata to all recipes
• disable_cache use this option to enforce to recreate all recipes. By default only missing recipes in the export folder or updated in the database will be exported.

Customizing

Under example/customizing is an example for custom recipe tags and custom recipe searches. The notes field of the gourmet recipe manager is interpreted as list of tags. Each line is interpreted as a tag. e.g. Vegan\nFavorite will result, that the recipe has the tags Vegan and Favorite set.

Software-Architecture

This program works after the following principle

1. Read recipe from the gourmet database
2. Create html version of the recipe with a html template engine. The templates are saved in templates folder.
3. Create pdf from html version of the recipe
4. Recreate the search documents which can link to the recipes.