This tool produces a selection of recipes, classified into 7 categories (Beef, chicken, pork, pasta, seafood/fish, salads and healthy recipes).

The program uses webscraping to get recipe URLs off the website allrecipes.com, and stores them into a dictionary as values, where the corresponding key is a recipe category.

Then, for each category key, 3 recipe url values are randomly selected. The output is compiled into a list and sent via email.

NOTE: for this program to run correctly, e-mail information is required. You will need to set up an environment variables file with the necessary e-mail information. Simply create a file in your root folder called '.bash_profile' and copy into it the 3 lines below using your own email information:

export EMAIL="youremail"

export PASSWORD="yourpassword"

export DESTINATION="yourdestinationemail"

An additional step you may want to consider is automation. In my case, I have setup a crontab job that makes this program run automatically on a weekly basis so I don't have to go and fetch new recipes, comfortably receiving them in my email directly.

Enjoy your cooking!