DishCord 📍🍽️🤖: Discord Bot with Recipes from Pinterest Board

My girlfriend woke up today with the idea of being able to search for recipes based on ingredients from her food Pinterest board. Four hours later, she got this bot that does just that.

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Features

1. Pinterest Recipe Integration

   • Fetch recipes directly from Pinterest boards.
   • Scrape titles, images, and ingredients from recipe sites.
   • Assigns cusine, difficulty, and time to each recipe.
   • Store recipes in a structured JSON format.

2. Intelligent Ingredient Parsing

   • Use local LLMs to interpret natural language ingredient queries (e.g., "What can I make with shrimp and garlic?").
   • Includes fuzzy search logic to match similar or related ingredients, ensuring flexibility (e.g., "red pepper flakes" matches "pepper flakes" or "ground pepper").

3. Discord Bot Commands

   • !recipe <query>: Find recipes matching your ingredients.
   • Auto-DM rules to new users.
   • !gpt <query>: For some general chat with the local LLM.
   • !food <query>: Smart search recipes using natural language, including filters like type, ingredients, difficulty, and time.

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Setup & Installation

Prerequisites

1. Python 3.8+

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. ChromeDriver installed (compatible with your Chrome version).

4. Set up .env:

   DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN=your_discord_token
   PINTEREST_EMAIL=your_email
   PINTEREST_PASSWORD=your_password
   

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Usage

1. Run the Pinterest Scraper

Fetch recipes from Pinterest boards and scrape recipe details:

python data/pinterest_scraper.py \
    --board_url https://www.pinterest.com/<your_board> \
    --driver_path /path/to/chromedriver \
    --scroll_count 100 \
    --workers 5 \
    --output_file recipes.json

Output: recipes.json with structured recipe data.

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2. Assign more features to the recipe

Assign features like cuisine, difficulty, etc, to the recipes:

python data/assign_cuisine.py \
    --input_file recipes.json \
    --output_file recipes.json

Output: recipes.json with this new data added to each recipe.

Dataset: Made available on HuggingFace - https://huggingface.co/datasets/shanto268/pinterest_recipes

3. Start the Discord Bot

Launch the bot to interact on Discord:

python bot.py

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4. Discord Bot Commands

!recipe <query>

Ask for recipes based on ingredients. Example:

!recipe I have 1 lb shrimp, red pepper flakes, and maybe some low-sodium chicken broth. Any recipe match?

Bot Response (Example):

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!food <query>

Search recipes intelligently using natural language.

Examples:

1. By type of food:

   !food show me 3 recipes for Italian food
   

Bot Response (Example):

2. Quick and easy recipes:

   !food any easy seafood recipes that I can make for dinner?
   

Bot Response (Example):

3. By ingredients and a condition:

   • !food find me 3 French recipes under 1 hour
     

     Bot Response (Example):

   • !food Japanese food that use rice and nori?
     

     Bot Response (Example):

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License

This project is open-source and available under the MIT License.

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To Do:

• Allow for exploratory chat features using the recipes.json knowledge base. e.g. "I want to make pasta" -> "What type of pasta?" -> "Spaghetti" -> "What sauce?" -> "Tomato" -> "Here's a recipe for Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce."

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