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Life & fun · December 9, 2020

Instantly search 2M recipes

Recipe Search with Typesense

Instantly search 2M recipes launched on December 9, 2020 with 349 votes, #40 of 3,242 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

In plain words

Instantly search 2M recipes is a recipe search tool launched in 2020 that indexes approximately two million recipes. It enables users to quickly find recipes based on ingredients, cuisines, or other criteria. The tool is built for home cooks and cooking enthusiasts who want fast access to a large recipe database. It uses Typesense search technology to deliver rapid query results across its extensive collection.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

This search experience is powered by Typesense which is a blazing-fast, open source typo-tolerant search-engine. It is an open source alternative to Algolia and an easier-to-use alternative to ElasticSearch. The recipe dataset is from RecipeNLG which is a Cooking Recipes Dataset for Semi-Structured Text Generation, but we're using it for search here. The app was built using the Typesense Adapter for InstantSearch.js and is hosted on S3, with Cloudfront for a CDN. The search backend is powered by a geo-distributed 3-node Typesense cluster running on Typesense Cloud , with nodes in Oregon, Frankfurt and Mumbai. Here is the source-code that shows you how to build your own search experience…from recipe-search.typesense.org

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