Clarify introductory steps in the README file (opening a Python session, expected interpreter output, ...) about recipe-scrapers HOT 21 CLOSED

Thanks for the bugreport @jonzey231. What happened when you tried to run the script, and how did that differ from what you expected?

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I don't know how to run it in the first place. I guess I'm asking for help on how to actually use this.

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Ok, no problem - to confirm, you do have Python and pip installed, yep?

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Correct. Both are installed in Windows.

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Ok, great! Next up is to check whether you've been able to get this library (recipe-scrapers) installed -- and then let's figure out the first recipe for you to scrape. Have you begun reading the README file or should I give you some time to review that first?

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I'm just getting scraper: command not found

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Hrm, OK. Could you try running python before entering the next commands? Here's more-or-less the output you should get (the text on the first line will probably be different on your system):

> python
Python 3.12.4 (main, Jun 12 2024, 19:06:53) [GCC 13.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from recipe_scrapers import scrape_me
>>> 

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This is my output when I run python

>python
Python 3.9.13 (tags/v3.9.13:6de2ca5, May 17 2022, 16:36:42) [MSC v.1929 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

This is my output when I run python from recipe_scrapers import scrape_me

File "<stdin>", line 1
    python  from recipe_scrapers import scrape_me
            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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Maybe I'm just not sure what command to actually run at this point?

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Update: I misunderstood what you meant.

When I run python from recipe_scrapers import scrape_me this is the output:

\Desktop\recipe-scrapers-main>python from recipe_scrapers import scrape_me
python: can't open file 'Desktop\recipe-scrapers-main\from': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

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That's OK, take your time. Could you try them as two separate commands?

1. python - to open a Python interpreter session (the >>> should appear as a prompt).
2. from recipe_scrapers import scrape_me - this is a statement within the Python session; we're asking it to import a function named scrape_me from this library.

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Got it. Now I'm here:

Desktop\recipe-scrapers-main> python
Python 3.9.13 (tags/v3.9.13:6de2ca5, May 17 2022, 16:36:42) [MSC v.1929 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from recipe_scrapers import scrape_me
>>>

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Excellent :) OK. Do you have any particular recipe webpage that you want to scrape from, or should we choose one at random?

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So my original hope was to just get all HelloFresh recipe URLs but it seems like that isn't going to be possible.

Let's use this one: https://www.hellofresh.com/recipes/vegan-firecracker-mushroom-rice-bowls-666863a6223895220f198073

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Afraid not, yep - it's one URL at a time. We can use that one though, to get a sense for how the functionality works. That would be:

scraper = scrape_me('https://www.hellofresh.com/recipes/vegan-firecracker-mushroom-rice-bowls-666863a6223895220f198073')

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Done!

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Ok, we've got ourselves a scraper variable :) Now you should be able to use that to access the information from the recipe -- also, it's boring, but I should mention: please be responsible if re-publishing information from recipes (the core of recipes are not copyrightable in many places, but some aspects of the site's content may be).

>>> print(scraper.title())
>>> print(scraper.ingredients())

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If it's OK with you: I'll edit the title of this thread because the discussion gives me a few ideas for how we can improve the top of our README file (so thank you!). If you'd prefer though, I can omit any references to this conversation when making those changes (and I'll leave the thread title as-is).

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Yes please and thank you for all the help! I think I've got it down. Have a great night!

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You're welcome - you too!

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