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Comment on Ask HN: What is the legality of scraping recipe ingredient lists?

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There was a ruling that said that recipes are not copyrightable. However, anything beyond the recipe ingredients and method is copyrightable.

Think images, videos, or that hunk of text detailing their experience as a 5 year old before a recipe.

Way back in the day I ran a public recipe scraping API. It had an option to scrape the image along with the recipe, but you had to set an explicit copyright flag to get them.

There was a HN post about it if you’re curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14794949

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