Paprika recipe app integration: What's for dinner tonight?

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I use Paprika to manage my grocery lists, recipes, and meal planning. They don’t have an official API but some of it has been… deduced by the community. This is my first Paprika integration attempt, but I’ll post more because I am likely to want to integrate grocery lists at the very least.

I added the following to configuration.yaml which creates a sensor that reads the dinner meal for the day:

sensor:
  - platform: rest
    resource: https://www.paprikaapp.com/api/v2/sync/meals/
    name: Dinner Tonight
    method: GET
    value_template: >
        {% set ns = namespace(found=false) %} {% for meal in
        value_json.result if meal["date"][0:10] == now().isoformat()[0:10]
        and meal.type == 2 -%} {{ meal.name }} {% set ns.found = true %}
        {%- endfor %} {% if ns.found == false %} No dinner planned yet for
        tonight. {% endif %}
    headers:
      Authorization: >
        Bearer MY_AUTH_TOKEN

Explanation

This uses RESTful Sensor to poll a REST API. This is polling the v2 meals endpoint, which returns your meal plan items.

I’m new to Jinja2 templates so there’s probably a more elegant way but basically what happens in the value_template is:

  • create a temp variable (technically a namespace, this is required due to jinja2 quirks) called ns and set its found property to false
  • go through each meal plan item and compare the first ten characters of the date (so just the 2024-03-21 part, for example) with the first ten characters of the current date. If these match, I know it’s an entry for a meal from today. If meal.type is 2, then I know it’s dinner. (0 is breakfast, 1 is lunch, 3 is snacks). So if the date matches and it’s dinner, I render meal.name and then also set ns.found to be true.
  • otherwise (if ns.found is false) I render the text No dinner planned yet for tonight.

MY_AUTH_TOKEN is the token I receive in response when I send the following curl command from the command line:

curl -X POST https://paprikaapp.com/api/v2/account/login -d 'email=MY_EMAIL&password=MY_PAPRIKA_PASSWORD'

And that’s it! There’s now a Dinner Tonight sensor available and I use it in two places.

Markdown card to display dinner on a dashboard

This also uses card_mod to style it a little nicer.

image

type: markdown
content: |-
  ### Dinner tonight
  {{ states('sensor.dinner_tonight') }} 
card_mod:
  style:
    ha-markdown:
      $: |
        h3 {
          margin-bottom: 0;
        }
        p {
          margin-top: 8px;
        }
      .: |
        ha-card {
          font-size: 1.5em;
          line-height: 1.5em;
        }

Dinner notifications to household members

This is a script that sends a notification via the Home Assistant app to a person. It includes the dinner info from the sensor above, and also when you click the notification on Android it sends you to a dashboard that has the dinner info as well. (The clicking is handled differently on different platforms, see the docs for more.

alias: dinner_script
sequence:
  - service: notify.mobile_app_persons_device
    metadata: {}
    data:
      data:
        clickAction: /dashboard-dinner/0
      message: "{{ states('sensor.dinner_tonight') }}"
mode: single
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I’m a Paprika user too, so thanks for this!

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Interesting project. I also rely on Paprika Recipe Manager 3. However, the “curl” command;
curl -X POST https://paprikaapp.com/api/v2/account/login -d 'email=MY_EMAIL&password=MY_PAPRIKA_PASSWORD
does not give the MY_AUTH_TOKEN. Any ideas why?

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@hawkplace, I was missing a quotation mark which I’ve since edited the post to add. Try this instead:

And forgive me if you already know this but I have to be thorough when giving help to strangers online: MY_EMAIL should be the full email address for your Paprika account, and MY_PAPRIKA_PASSWORD needs to be the full password. Seems obvious but I have to mention it!

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Thank you for this, now I’ve got it set up as well, and pushed to a Dakboard

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Hi,

Awesome idea.
I’m looking into using paprika too,
Any update on how to integrate the shopping list from paprika into home assistant?

Thanks

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For those who have special characters in their passwords. the following will work:

curl -X POST https://paprikaapp.com/api/v2/account/login --data-urlencode 'email=MY_EMAIL' --data-urlencode 'password=MY_PAPRIKA_PASSWORD'

Thanks Darius

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Hi, trying to get this to work. I’m getting a {“error”:{“code”:0,“message”:“Invalid email address.”}} when I try the curl command. I double checked I had the correct email address so not sure what would cause this.

Anything I could try here?

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I haven’t had any luck with the api/v2. I am getting
{“error”:{“code”:0,“message”:“Unrecognized client.”}}

I do get a key when I try the api/v1 so I am going to test that out. We are already all in on Paprika and I dont really want to setup Mealie.

Edit: the api/v1 seems to be working.

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Your sensor state and a desire to get grocery lists and the frustration of trying to get some nice formatting inspired me. Tonight I was able to release a full integration that pulls meals and grocery lists.

I have some future plans to add some option control on it (such as choosing how you want upcoming meals to display, how many, possibly auto-pulling a users token as an optional step if they don’t want to do it manually. etc)

Thanks for the inspiration!

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Thanks for this!

Trying to get my token via Terminal on Mac and I’m getting

{"error":{"code":0,"message":"Unrecognized client."}}%

Any ideas?

Edit: NM reread this thread again, changed to v1 and it worked, thanks.

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Update #2 - successfully got my token by using v1, however the meals showing are from 2022, which obviously isn’t ideal. So needless to say, I’m still stuck.

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Any luck in the meantime? I am stuck with the same error message. I am aware that I registered with an email address containing a special character (“+”), but the apps are working fine and also the hint by @benthos456 did not do the trick for me.

Hmm, changed the email via Paprika Recipe Manager Change Email to something only containing [a-z] . and @, from a known host - but still same error with both v1 and v2.

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For anone struggling with getting their token, the easiest way to get it is from the official Paprika Bookmarket: https://www.paprikaapp.com/bookmarklet/

Here is how I have it set up. You will need to add a line in your secrets.yaml like this: paprika_token: "Bearer your-token-here"

rest:
  - resource: https://www.paprikaapp.com/api/v2/sync/meals/
    method: GET
    scan_interval:
      hours: 4
    headers:
      Accept: application/json
      Authorization: !secret paprika_token
    sensor:
      - name: "Meals: Breakfast Today"
        unique_id: meals_breakfast_today
        icon: mdi:food-croissant
        value_template: >-
          {% set meals = (
               value_json.result if (value_json is mapping and 'result' in value_json)
               else (value_json if value_json is sequence else [])
             ) %}
          {% set today = now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') %}
          {% set candidates = meals
             | selectattr('date','defined')
             | selectattr('type','defined')
             | selectattr('name','defined')
             | selectattr('order_flag','defined')
             | selectattr('date','search','^' ~ today)
             | selectattr('type','equalto', 0)
             | list %}
          {% set sorted = candidates | sort(attribute='order_flag') %}
          {% set names = sorted | map(attribute='name') | list %}
          {{ names | join(' / ') if names else 'None' }}
    
      - name: "Meals: Lunch Today"
        unique_id: meals_lunch_today
        icon: mdi:food
        value_template: >-
          {% set meals = (
               value_json.result if (value_json is mapping and 'result' in value_json)
               else (value_json if value_json is sequence else [])
             ) %}
          {% set today = now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') %}
          {% set candidates = meals
             | selectattr('date','defined')
             | selectattr('type','defined')
             | selectattr('name','defined')
             | selectattr('order_flag','defined')
             | selectattr('date','search','^' ~ today)
             | selectattr('type','equalto', 1)
             | list %}
          {% set sorted = candidates | sort(attribute='order_flag') %}
          {% set names = sorted | map(attribute='name') | list %}
          {{ names | join(' / ') if names else 'None' }}
    
      - name: "Meals: Dinner Today"
        unique_id: meals_dinner_today
        icon: mdi:silverware-fork-knife
        value_template: >-
          {% set meals = (
               value_json.result if (value_json is mapping and 'result' in value_json)
               else (value_json if value_json is sequence else [])
             ) %}
          {% set today = now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') %}
          {% set candidates = meals
             | selectattr('date','defined')
             | selectattr('type','defined')
             | selectattr('name','defined')
             | selectattr('order_flag','defined')
             | selectattr('date','search','^' ~ today)
             | selectattr('type','equalto', 2)
             | list %}
          {% set sorted = candidates | sort(attribute='order_flag') %}
          {% set names = sorted | map(attribute='name') | list %}
          {{ names | join(' / ') if names else 'None' }}