Import from YouTube

[jbayardo]

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Mealie is amazing at importing from most URLs my family uses daily, except for YouTube. There's a huge amount of YouTube shorts and videos describing recipes and instructions to make them. Most of these contain an attached transcript and a description of the recipe in the video description, or sometimes might even contain links to individual websites that can actually be parsed by Mealie's automation.

Please provide a concise description of the feature that would resolve your issue.

It'd be great if Mealie could:

1. Given a YouTube video / short, retrieve the transcript and description of it
2. Identify if it's a single or a collection of multiple recipes
3. If it's a single recipe, proceed to scrape the information necessary to populate Mealie's fields. One could even imagine having a link to the precise point in the video where the recipe is made in multi recipe videos.
4. If it's multiple recipes, run as a bulk import, and do (3) for all of them, then maybe allow keeping or throwing away recipes if not interested.

Please consider and list out some caveats or tradeoffs made in your design decision

• There might or might not be issues with scraping YouTube. I haven't done this in the past, and it might need a specific API key for it.

• Some recipes contain links to websites which have specific instructions and Mealie could try to parse (or maybe even knows how to parse already); this can be further complicated by the sites being redirections. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhYRRpHienM has multiple recipes pointing to bit.ly, which then point to a website that Mealie can actually parse. In these cases, it'd be good to automatically figure that out.

• Some recipes do not contain links for recipes Mealie can utilize. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxz_gqXVnBY&list=PLyg91lY5j03Ictv0l_i8_1AGmog3JlWi5 . Since Mealie recently gained support for using OpenAI, one could also imagine using the internal the OpenAI API to extract the recipe from OpenAI's output.

Additional Information

• If this is accepted I'm willing to submit a PR to provide this feature
• If this is accepted I'm willing to help maintain this feature
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