Apps How to develop a recipes application

[andrometis]

I can develop android applications. I want to develop a recipes application. Users will select ingredients they have. The application will suggest food and desserts recipes which can be made with the selected ingredients. In order to do this, my application should search the selected ingredients at Web, and return some results. I don't know where to retrieve results from and how can i develop such an app and what i need to do such an application? Please guide me..
Thanks in advance.

 

[bayk]

I would build a recipes data base manually with a keys - ingredients. Then did the search for that DB. You can keep history of requests, so you new what your users are searching for and you could update your DB.

Using search is might be useful to, but Google deprecate API, so you will have to simulate browser and parse results manually. Also it will be a problem to really sort and format results.

 

[Deleted User]

Actually this looks quite promising for the OP -

http://api2.bigoven.com/