Chefkoch API Documentation

Welcome to the new Chefkoch API documentation. if you are from chefkoch.de and want me to take the package down, please contact me on github.

Introduction

The Chefkoch API is a API Wrapper that allows you to access the data of the chefkoch.de website.

Installation

To install the API, you need to type the following command in your terminal:

npm install chefkoch-api

Usage

To use the API, you need to import the API in your code:

const chefkoch = require('chefkoch-api');

Performance

Since the API is based on webscraping, it is very slow. If you want to get all the recipes, it will take a very, very long time. It will go through n(default=5) pages of the website and scrape all the ingredients of every single recipe. Currently it just supports ingredients because of performance issues and the fact that I don't need the other data for my project.

Technical Details

The API is based on webscraping. Every function returns a class that contains the data of the website. There is a DataParser Class where you can store data in a JSON or CSV file and read it again later. Pay attention that you use the "chefkochAPI" instance instead of the "ChefkochAPI" class! Since version 1.2.0 the API has a builtin beautifier that removes, newlines, tabs, multiple spaces, trailing spaces and leading spaces.

Examples

Get all recipes

WARNING: THIS IS VERY SLOW!

chefkoch.chefkochAPI.getAllRecipes().then(function(data){
    console.log(data);
});

Get all the categories

chefkoch.chefkochAPI.getCategories().then(function(data){
    console.log(data);
});

Get the recipes of a category

chefkoch.chefkochAPI.getCategories().then(function(data){
    let category = data[0];
    chefkoch.chefkochAPI.getRecipes(category, 5/*these are the amount of pages to scrape, this is optional*/, 0/*this is the Start page*/).then(function(data){
        console.log(data);
    });
});

Search for recipes

chefkoch.chefkochAPI.searchRecipes('pizza', 5/*these are the amount of pages to scrape, this is optional*/, 0/*this is the Start page*/).then(function(data){
    console.log(data);
});

Get a recipe

chefkoch.chefkochAPI.getRecipe('/rezepte/1127371219159420/Dinkel-Hirse-Vollkornbrot.html'/*this is the subURL of the recipe*/).then(function(data){
    console.log(data);
});

write to a Json

const chefkoch = require("chefkoch-api");
async function init() {
    await chefkoch.chefkochAPI.searchRecipes("raclette").then(function(data) {
        new chefkoch.DataParser().writeRecipesToJson(data, "raclette.json")
    })
}
init()