Cookblast - recipe video search engine

July 16, 2010 9:25 AM

Cookblast - recipe video search engine
A search engine and aggregator for all cooking related videos. All comments and feedback appreciated!
posted by blastomatic (5 comments total)

This project was posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk on August 15, 2010: Oh! That's what they mean by browned...

This is great! I'd love to have video thumbnails, though, just to spice up the results page a bit. I know it might be tough for some of the sites, but there's prrrobably a way to scrape most of them.
posted by soma lkzx at 1:05 PM on July 16, 2010

This a great idea. I've spent hours to find guidance on a dishes that I was interested in trying. Would be hard to add chef or author as a search parameter? For example - I find Nigel Slater's recipes particularly well done or I wonder what Marcella Hazan has to say on Pasta Timbale. Depends on who you envision the users will be.
posted by helmutdog at 8:19 AM on July 17, 2010

Glad you like it!

I am working on thumbnails at the moment, turned out to be a bit trickier than I'd thought.

Can definitely add chefs, will do that soon.
posted by blastomatic at 9:01 AM on July 17, 2010

tell us when you do!
posted by The Whelk at 12:11 PM on July 18, 2010

I like the site. I am a visual person so videos are great for me.
posted by veta7 at 7:25 AM on August 14, 2010