CookDex docs
CookDex is a web UI for keeping a self-hosted Mealie recipe library clean, searchable, and well organized. It runs next to Mealie in Docker. About CookDex has an overview and a before-and-after of what it cleans up.
Start here
Section titled “Start here”Install CookDexThe compose file, volumes, image tags and updates.
Getting startedFirst login, connecting Mealie, and a first safe run.
Data maintenance pipelineClean and audit the library in stages, preview first.
SchedulingRun tasks once or on an interval.
Use CookDex
Section titled “Use CookDex”- Scheduling
- Safety policies: previews, owner-unlocked live runs and Backup First.
- Data maintenance pipeline
- Recipe Dredger: find and import recipes from sites you choose.
- Direct DB access: optional, faster database-backed operations.
Reference
Section titled “Reference”- Task reference: every task, runtime settings and run history.
- Data maintenance tasks, Backup and cleanup tasks, Taxonomy tasks
- The Help page inside CookDex documents every task and setting in place.
- Troubleshooting
- Privacy and safety and the CookDex privacy policy
- Bugs and feature requests: open an issue.
CookDex is free and open source (AGPL-3.0). To contribute, see CONTRIBUTING.md on GitHub. If it saves you time, sponsoring on GitHub helps cover hosting and the test Mealie instance every release is checked against.