[SCRAPER] - taste.com.au

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First Check

• I used the GitHub search to find a similar issue and didn't find it.

• I have verified that this issue is not related to the underlying library
  hhyrsev/recipe-scrapers by 1) checking
  the debugger and data is returned, 2)
  verifying that there are errors in the log related to application level code, or
  3) verified that the site provides recipe data, or is otherwise supported by
  hhyrsev/recipe-scrapers

• This issue can be replicated on the demo site (https://demo.mealie.io/)

Please provide 1-5 example URLs that are having errors

Mealie seems to have a parsing problem with taste.com.au. I have noticed several recipes that show similar behavior, and this is replicable on the demo site. The error manifests in two ways -- one which seems to be an error either in the underlying library or website, and the other within Mealie. As an example:

https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/our-favourite-lasagne/2ac35c7f-3320-48ef-b2cb-ecef75883241

The site shows the first ingredient as " 2 tsp olive oil". The scraper translates this into "9.20 gm olive oil".

Site:

Debugger:

I appreciate the above is not directly related to Mealie, but I include it as I am unsure if it has an impact on the second problem.

The steps seem to intermittently mix what looks to be an ingredient tag into the English method. For example:

Debugger:

Mealie interface:

Other URLs with similar behavior:
https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/15-minute-chicken-corn-noodle-soup-recipe/5yiglkxj
https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/cypriot-grain-salad-recipe/oph7597i
https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/hummingbird-cake-2/6d9d69c2-94c2-466c-a969-268eb1439319

Please provide your logs for the Mealie container docker logs <container-id> > mealie.logs

Switching to dedicated user

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INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - Waiting for application startup.
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - start: database initialization
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - Database connection established.
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - Context impl SQLiteImpl.
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - Will assume non-transactional DDL.
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - end: database initialization
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - -----SYSTEM STARTUP-----
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    "SMTP_FROM_NAME": "Mealie",
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    "OIDC_PROVIDER_NAME": "OAuth",
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INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - ------APP FEATURES------
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - --------==SMTP==--------
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - Enabled: False
Reason: Missing required values for ['SMTP_HOST', 'SMTP_FROM_EMAIL']
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - --------==LDAP==--------
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - Enabled: False
Reason: LDAP_AUTH_ENABLED is false
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - --------==OIDC==--------
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - Enabled: False
Reason: OIDC_AUTH_ENABLED is false
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - -------==OPENAI==-------
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - Enabled: True
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - ------------------------
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - Daily tasks scheduled for 2025-08-04 13:45:00+00:00
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - Application startup complete.
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:17 - Uvicorn running on http://0.0.0.0:9000 (Press CTRL+C to quit)
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:22 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/explore/groups/home/organizers/tags?page=1&perPage=-1&orderBy=name&orderDirection=asc HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:22 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/explore/groups/home/recipes?page=1&perPage=64&orderBy=created_at&orderDirection=desc&orderByNullPosition=last&paginationSeed=1754290582655&searchSeed=1754290582655&search=&requireAllCategories=false&requireAllTags=false&requireAllTools=false&requireAllFoods=false HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:22 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/explore/groups/home/organizers/tools?page=1&perPage=-1&orderBy=name&orderDirection=asc HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:22 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/app/about HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:22 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/app/about HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:22 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/app/about/startup-info HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:25 - [127.0.0.1:32912] 200 OK "GET /api/app/about HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:29 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "POST /api/auth/token HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:29 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/users/self HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:29 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/app/about HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:29 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/organizers/tags?page=1&perPage=-1&orderBy=name&orderDirection=asc HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:29 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/organizers/tools?page=1&perPage=-1&orderBy=name&orderDirection=asc HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:29 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/households/cookbooks?page=1&perPage=-1&orderBy=name&orderDirection=asc HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:30 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/recipes?page=1&perPage=64&orderBy=created_at&orderDirection=desc&orderByNullPosition=last&paginationSeed=1754290589941&searchSeed=1754290589941&search=&requireAllCategories=false&requireAllTags=false&requireAllTools=false&requireAllFoods=false HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:30 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/media/recipes/a3768e69-9ba0-4c63-88a9-91ac38b0a88a/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version= HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:30 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/media/recipes/40c23e8d-0cde-4c38-aca5-c491f5a72bd0/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version= HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:30 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/media/recipes/9b1ad432-7129-4665-b3de-6dc48bd15483/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version= HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:30 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/media/recipes/68f4ed46-5ee2-410d-918c-28fc78c7c92a/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version= HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:30 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/media/recipes/ed65e944-ebd9-4332-9f58-91fd01c5fead/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version= HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:30 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/media/recipes/6fb2e054-71df-457f-8348-102e56214800/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version= HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:30 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/media/recipes/642ab216-9f40-49d2-a146-96909d835a1c/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version= HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:30 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/media/recipes/06873282-8396-47bc-a44f-681e51d775be/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version= HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:30 - [<removed>:0] 304 Not Modified "GET /sw.js HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:30 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/users/self HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:30 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/app/about/startup-info HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:30 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/app/about HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/app/about HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/organizers/tags?page=1&perPage=-1&orderBy=name&orderDirection=asc HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/groups/households?page=1&perPage=-1&orderBy=name&orderDirection=asc HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/households/cookbooks?page=1&perPage=-1&orderBy=name&orderDirection=asc HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/organizers/tools?page=1&perPage=-1&orderBy=name&orderDirection=asc HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/organizers/categories?page=1&perPage=-1&orderBy=name&orderDirection=asc HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/groups/members?page=1&perPage=-1&orderBy=full_name&orderDirection=asc HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/recipes?page=1&perPage=64&orderBy=created_at&orderDirection=desc&orderByNullPosition=last&paginationSeed=1754290591193&searchSeed=1754290591193&search=&requireAllCategories=false&requireAllTags=false&requireAllTools=false&requireAllFoods=false HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/users/self/ratings HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/households/recipe-actions?page=1&perPage=-1&orderBy=title&orderDirection=asc HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/households/self HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 304 Not Modified "GET /sw.js HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/media/recipes/a3768e69-9ba0-4c63-88a9-91ac38b0a88a/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version= HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/media/recipes/40c23e8d-0cde-4c38-aca5-c491f5a72bd0/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version= HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/media/recipes/9b1ad432-7129-4665-b3de-6dc48bd15483/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version= HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/media/recipes/68f4ed46-5ee2-410d-918c-28fc78c7c92a/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version= HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/media/recipes/ed65e944-ebd9-4332-9f58-91fd01c5fead/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version= HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/media/recipes/6fb2e054-71df-457f-8348-102e56214800/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version= HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/media/recipes/642ab216-9f40-49d2-a146-96909d835a1c/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version= HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/media/recipes/4230884b-5ffd-4d99-8f78-3f9baf91d605/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version=3kYH HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 404 Not Found "GET /api/media/recipes/06873282-8396-47bc-a44f-681e51d775be/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version= HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/media/recipes/647a3fa7-335d-4fab-86e4-61393df4b231/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version=no%20image HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/media/recipes/8f3c06de-f362-464e-a28e-3d0fcb280623/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version=1YYO HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/media/recipes/453b3632-2112-4c62-a487-8e4167fe9571/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version=zTRv HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/media/recipes/486ca36f-2a73-4120-9ead-724ed455912a/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version=hv4x HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:31 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/media/recipes/09c7bab4-147e-432c-9bdb-33a19b29bdb3/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version=qM2s HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:32 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/foods?page=1&perPage=-1&orderBy=name&orderDirection=asc HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:49 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/organizers/tags?page=1&perPage=-1&orderBy=name&orderDirection=asc HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:49 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/app/about HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:52 - HTTP Request: GET https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/cypriot-grain-salad-recipe/oph7597i "HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:52 - HTTP Request: GET https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/cypriot-grain-salad-recipe/oph7597i "HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:52 - HTTP Request: GET https://tags.news.com.au/prod/newskey/generator.html?origin=https%3a%2f%2fwww.taste.com.au%2frecipes%2fcypriot-grain-salad-recipe%2foph7597i&1754290612893458749 "HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:53 - HTTP Request: GET https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/cypriot-grain-salad-recipe/oph7597i?nk=416dfd7e66cc1a9c7de0f8f1e4d5b0b4-1754290612 "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:53 - Image URL: https://img.taste.com.au/21fZkEhE/w1200-h675-cfill-q80/taste/2021/12/cypriot-salad-175603-1.jpg
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:53 - HTTP Request: GET https://img.taste.com.au/21fZkEhE/w1200-h675-cfill-q80/taste/2021/12/cypriot-salad-175603-1.jpg "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:53 - original.jpg minified
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:53 - Tiny image saved
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:54 - [<removed>:0] 201 Created "POST /api/recipes/create/url HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:54 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/recipes/cypriot-grain-salad-recipe-1 HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:54 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/organizers/tools?page=1&perPage=-1&orderBy=name&orderDirection=asc HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:54 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/groups/households/0aa6b67d-fbeb-4bd5-af63-42b36738c632 HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:54 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/media/recipes/38ac0141-13c1-4d33-905e-f02ca03330c8/images/original.webp?rnd=1&version=gtBq HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:54 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/groups/households/0aa6b67d-fbeb-4bd5-af63-42b36738c632 HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:55 - [<removed>:0] 200 OK "GET /api/households/self/recipes/cypriot-grain-salad-recipe-1 HTTP/1.1"
INFO     2025-08-04T16:56:56 - [127.0.0.1:52382] 200 OK "GET /api/app/about HTTP/1.1"

Deployment

Docker (Linux)

[michael-genson]

This is very weird. We don't do any substitutions AFAIK so I have a feeling it's something to do with how the site returns its data and what headers we're sending. I tried a raw curl locally and it gives me nothing (traffic is blocked) so maybe our debugger requests are different than our normal scrape requests?

There's also not much interesting on the recipe scraper side that could be causing this: https://github.com/hhursev/recipe-scrapers/blob/main/recipe_scrapers/tasteau.py

[michael-genson]

Actually I can confirm it's not Mealie's processing that's causing this, because if I go to the site and manually copy the HTML over it's fine, and creating via HTML is almost identical to creating via URL (aside from the act of fetching the data) (extra steps are added but that happens all the time when scraping):
https://demo.mealie.io/g/home/r/our-favourite-lasagne-recipe-2

So somehow the site is returning weird/bad data when we're scraping vs when we visit as a normal user. Even though it's not directly a Mealie problem, we should still try to investigate, figure out what it is, and then determine if there's anything we can do about it.

[ThisIsTheOnlyUsernameAvailable]

I've done some further research and seem to have gotten closer to some of the issue. The description error seems to be related to the "show ingredient quantity" toggle on the page:

Off:

On:

The offending html shows the following:

Heat the <span class="annotated-ingredient"><span>oil</span><span class="annotation">2 tsp olive oil</span></span> in a large frying pan over medium heat. Add the <span class="annotated-ingredient"><span>onion</span><span class="annotation">1 brown onion, halved, finely chopped</span></span> and <span class="annotated-ingredient"><span>garlic</span><span class="annotation">2 garlic cloves, crushed</span></span> and cook

There are two places in the html which show the method. One with the extraneous quantities, and one without. In my download of the html, line 35 contains the clean instructions, 1446 contains the added information.

Quite strangely, the odd quantity issue (eg 9.2 gm olive oil) is on the aforementioned line 35. So it seems we are scraping some information from the line, but not all of it.

With all of that said, I assume this is a scraper issue that I should raise on their GitHub?

[michael-genson]

Interesting, so that explains where the different data is coming from, but not what's causing it to toggle on/off. Because when I use the debugger we don't get the messy HTML. but when I import from the URL I do get the messy HTML, pretty consistently.

While it may be worth raising an issue with recipe scrapers, I'm not fully sure it's something they can change/solve, but maybe there's a specific header we can pass to trigger one mode or the other? At the end of the day we're looking at the metadata, not the actual page data (or rather recipe scrapers is)