Broccoli is a free recipe app that lets you build your own personal recipe collection and helps you cook in a more eco-friendly way. Recipes with seasonal ingredients are highlighted and if you’re looking for inspiration, you can find seasonal ingredients from your region in the seasonal calendar.
You can get Broccoli on
Broccoli searches for recipe metadata in the JSON-LD format. Many modern sites and blogs provide this metadata since it helps them with search engine optimization. But some might also choose to not expose it because they do not want any external sites and tools to scrape their content.
If you want to verify if a specific site exposes JSON-LD metadata hit F12 in your browser and search for script tags with the type="application/ld+json" property.
Broccoli can only import it's own backup files (which can be created via "Backup & Restore"). But if you are technical adept and have some scripting skills you can create a broccoli-archive file yourself.
The broccoli-archive is basically a zip file which consists of other zip files (one broccoli file for each recipe) and a JSON file for the categories. Each broccoli file consists of an optional image file and a JSON file with describes the recipe's metadata. Create an export yourself and have a look at the resulting file.
The following task have to be done:
- Create the JSON file for each recipe (depending on the structure of your text files)
- Zip this file (with an optional image file) into a
broccolifile - Create a JSON file which describes your categories (in case you have any)
- Zip the JSON and all the
broccolifiles into abroccoli-archive - Import the
*.broccoli-archiveinto Broccoli
I set up a project on Crowdin to manage translations. Feel free to join and tell me if you want me to add more languages.
Available languages so far:
- English (done by non-native, feel free to report any issues)
- Spanish (done by non-native, feel free to report any issues)
- French (done by non-native, feel free to report any issues)
- German
- Polish (thanks a lot to r-tw0 for your help!)
- Italian (thanks a lot to bruce965 for your help!)
- Chinese (thanks a lot to leongjs98 for your help!)
- Serbian (Latin) (thanks a lot to dimipage for your help!)
- Turkish (thanks a lot to mikropsoft for your help!)
- Hebrew (thanks a lot to Eldar for your help!)
- Brazilian Portuguese (thanks a lot to joemaal for your help!)
- Russian (thanks a lot to Степан for your help!)
- Japanese (thanks a lot to FileX for your help!)
- Greek (thanks a lot to quarufus for your help!)
If you want to contribute by researching data for additional seasonal calendars please contact me.
Some things to considerate:
- regions should reflect climate zones rather than countries
- regions should be big enough to be useable for a lot of people, but small enough to still be valid (there will have to be compromises though)
- the calendar should include new ingredients if they are relevant for the regional cooking culture
- ingredients should be practical in the sense that they are actually used in real-world recipes (i.e. there are different kinds of apples that might have slightly different seasonal availability, but since recipes will only ever ask for "apples" it's better to just have one ingredient)
Available regions for:
- Central Europe
- North America (colder)
- North America (warmer)
- Japan (thanks a lot to FileX for creating this calendar!)