[v1.0.0b] [Task] - Public Group Exploration

[hay-kot]

What is the problem this task addresses?

Currently sharing a recipe requires a manual process to share. Mealie should provide a way for groups to share their recipes by default.

Proposed/Possible Solution(s)?

Group Pages

The foundational page relating to sharing Recipes and Cookbooks. It should show a link to browse a groups entire public recipe collection, as well as their cookbooks. In the future it may also support browsing by categories, tools, and

Cookbooks

Allow cookbooks to be set to public and shareable via a link or discoverable on group pages

Public Recipes

Allow public recipes to be browsed by group from non members.

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Checklist

• Public URLs for Recipes that are Public in Non-Private Groups - feat: public recipe access #1610
• Group Recipe Explorer
• Public Cookbooks

[l0el]

Curious, any updates on this? The fact that you can only generate temporary sharable links (that are also ugly) is the only thing holding me back from using this. Would be super nice to have public-by-default as an option, with WordPress style pretty links.

[hay-kot]

My timeline got pushed back because of some summer vacation stuff. Currently hoping to get this rolled into the next beta at the end of the month. It may be a partial implementation, we'll see how far I get.

[l0el]

Oh awesome @hay-kot !! Might sound dumb, but sharable, pretty links is a make or break feature for a food blogger :)

[gleeds]

I agree. I've been using mealie to build a collection of recipes to try, then the ones that turn out well we share links to our friends and family, but we don't want to make them create accounts, so I'm stuck on 0.5.6 until this feature get's re-added. While I typically share a specific recipe link, I still want browsing everything to be available.

[NHellFire]

Any progress on this?
This not being added yet makes 1.0 worse for me than 0.5, but as 1.0 is performing better, I've just removed the group checks for my use case (shared recipes, separate meal plans). Unfortunately that's about the limit to my understanding of the code, I have no idea how I'd properly check the public setting.

[Naticus]

Any progress on this? This not being added yet makes 1.0 worse for me than 0.5, but as 1.0 is performing better, I've just removed the group checks for my use case (shared recipes, separate meal plans). Unfortunately that's about the limit to my understanding of the code, I have no idea how I'd properly check the public setting.

How did you go about removing the group checks? I think that might be a good solution for me and my friend group right now so I can maintain separate meal plans, shopping lists, etc.

[NHellFire]

Any progress on this? This not being added yet makes 1.0 worse for me than 0.5, but as 1.0 is performing better, I've just removed the group checks for my use case (shared recipes, separate meal plans). Unfortunately that's about the limit to my understanding of the code, I have no idea how I'd properly check the public setting.

How did you go about removing the group checks? I think that might be a good solution for me and my friend group right now so I can maintain separate meal plans, shopping lists, etc.

Attached the patch I'm using. If any users have categories with the same names, they'll need to first rename or delete them (it will error on duplicates). Might be some unneeded changes in that, I found some more problems with mealplans that I fixed today.

mealie-no-group-checks.patch

For docker-compose, you can add this to your volumes (on the api service) to replace the patched files:

      - ./mealie-git/mealie/repos/repository_recipes.py:/app/mealie/repos/repository_recipes.py
      - ./mealie-git/mealie/routes/recipe/recipe_crud_routes.py:/app/mealie/routes/recipe/recipe_crud_routes.py
      - ./mealie-git/mealie/routes/groups/controller_cookbooks.py:/app/mealie/routes/groups/controller_cookbooks.py
      - ./mealie-git/mealie/routes/groups/controller_mealplan.py:/app/mealie/routes/groups/controller_mealplan.py
      - ./mealie-git/mealie/routes/organizers/controller_categories.py:/app/mealie/routes/organizers/controller_categories.py
      - ./mealie-git/mealie/routes/organizers/controller_tags.py:/app/mealie/routes/organizers/controller_tags.py

[Marcbacca]

Has there been any updates on this? I am also stuck on 0.5.6 due to the new betas requiring a login for read access. My setup is behind Authentik, so the read only option with no mealie authentication needed is perfect, thanks.

[hay-kot]

Has there been any updates on this? I am also stuck on 0.5.6 due to the new betas requiring a login for read access. My setup is behind Authentik, so the read only option with no mealie authentication needed is perfect, thanks.

No, it's been deprioritized because, 1) I don't use the feature, 2) it requires extensive reworking on nearly every component related to recipe views. 3) No other contributors seem super interested in taking on the work here.

Happy to help someone get started on it if they're interested in adding the feature, but I'm more focused on getting v1 to stable than taking on this feature.

[DrSpaldo]

I am also very interested in this one. It would be good to be able to give out my recipes to family without them having to use a login

[LP0101]

+1 for this too!

My family and I all started using mealie recently and we love it. We're split into different groups by household, but we'd love to be able to get recipes from other groups

[hay-kot]

It's pretty clear there's lot's of interest in this feature. If you're interested in taking on the feature work for this please let me know.

[michael-genson]

#2525 covers most all of this

[michael-genson]

you can only generate temporary sharable links (that are also ugly)

FYI this has been addressed recently: #2482