Paprika is a lovely recipe app that works so much better than I ever expected a recipe app to, and although its totally possible to edit recipes without leaving the app, that can be a little inconvenient. This console app and library are built to make creating and editing your recipes easy by providing you tools for editing or creating individual recipes, downloading your whole recipe list, and even working with recipe exports generated by the app.
pip install paprika-recipes
This app can interact directly with Paprika's API using the commands documented here, but before beginning, you will need to store your paprika account information in your system keyring by running:
paprika-recipes store-password
You'll be asked for your e-mail and password; after that point, the console app will fetch your password from your system keyring instead of prompting you for it.
The instructions below assume that you've answered "yes" when asked whether you'd like to use this account by default, but if you didn't -- see --help for instructions.
You can modify a recipe on your Paprika account by running the following
paprika-recipes edit-recipe
You'll be presented with a list of recipes on your account and after you select the recipe you'd like to edit, your editor will be opened to allow you to make the modifications you want to make. Just save and close your editor to upload your updated recipe to Paprika.
If you have decided that you've made a mistake and would like to abort, just delete all of the contents of the file before saving and closing your editor. We won't update your recipe if you do that.
You can also provide search parameters as command-line arguments to limit the list of recipes presented to you, and if your search terms match just one of your recipes, we'll open the editor straight away.
You can create a new recipe on your Paprika account by running the following
paprika-recipes create-recipe
Your editor will be opened to a brand new empty recipe. Just write out your recipe's instructions and whatever other fields you'd like to fill out, then save and close your editor -- we'll upload your recipe to your Paprika account as soon as your editor has closed.
If you have decided that you've made a mistake and would like to abort, just delete all of the contents of the file before saving and closing your editor. We won't update your recipe if you do that.
If you want to download your whole recipe archive instead of editing or creating a single recipe at a time, you can download your whole recipe collection into a directory on your computer.
The expected workflow for changing your recipes when using this method is a three-step process:
- Downloading your paprika recipes from your account.
- Modifying the extracted yaml recipe files or creating new ones.
- Uploading your changed or new recipes back to your account.
paprika-recipes download-recipes /path/to/export/your/recipes
paprika-recipes upload-recipes /path/to/where/you/exported/your/recipes
The expected workflow for changing your recipes is a three-step process:
- Extracting your
paprikarecipesfile to a directory. - Modifying the extracted yaml recipe files.
- Compress your recipes back into an archive.
paprika-recipes extract-archive /path/to/your/export.paprikarecipes /path/to/extract/recipes/to/
paprika-recipes create-archive /path/you/earlier/extracted/recipes/to/ /path/to/a/new/export.paprikarecipes