grouchygiraffe-ingest

name	grouchygiraffe-ingest
description	Full grouchygiraffe ingestion workflow — given either a grouchygiraffe media file path or a recipe URL (YouTube, Instagram, or any recipe page), identify the recipe, upload the thumbnail to Imgur where applicable, and write a cleaned recipe note to the vault.

Grouchygiraffe Ingest Workflow

The argument is either a local grouchygiraffe media file path or a URL.

Detect the input mode from the argument:

• If it starts with http:// or https://: URL mode — skip to the URL path below
• Otherwise: file mode — follow the file path below

Do not prompt the user between steps unless a step fails.

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URL mode

When the argument is a URL, skip Steps 1 and 2 of the file flow and go directly to recipe-cleanup, with one variation depending on the URL type:

YouTube URLs (youtube.com/watch?v=... or youtu.be/...):

Invoke the recipe-cleanup skill with the YouTube URL directly.

recipe-cleanup extracts the video thumbnail from YouTube and sets the pic field — no separate Imgur upload is needed.

Instagram or other social media URLs:

First invoke the social-to-imgur skill with the URL to get a permanent Imgur thumbnail URL.

Then invoke the recipe-cleanup skill with the URL.

After recipe-cleanup writes the file, update the pic frontmatter field to use the Imgur URL — social CDN URLs expire.

Final report (URL mode):

After all steps complete, report:

• The recipe name
• The author's name
• The recipe file path written to the vault
• The source URL

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File mode

Given a grouchygiraffe media file path (e.g. /Users/mtm/pdev/taylormonacelli/grouchygiraffe/data/DX9oSBkjsZR.mp4), run the following three skills in order.

Step 1: grouchygiraffe-recipe-lookup

Invoke the grouchygiraffe-recipe-lookup skill on the provided media file path.

Collect from the output:

• The original Instagram post URL (from the url field in the YAML)
• The direct recipe URL (on the author's site, TikTok, or Substack)
• The author's name and Instagram handle
• The recipe name

Step 2: social-to-imgur

Invoke the social-to-imgur skill using the original Instagram post URL collected in Step 1.

Collect from the output:

• The permanent Imgur URL for the thumbnail image

Step 3: recipe-cleanup

Invoke the recipe-cleanup skill using the recipe URL from Step 1.

recipe-cleanup writes the ingredient wikilinks and then delegates to the resolve-recipe-ingredient-link skill to resolve any link that does not point to an existing product note — so the ingredient links in the note this workflow produces are already resolved by the time Step 3 returns. Do not resolve them separately.

After the recipe file is written, update the pic frontmatter field to use the Imgur URL from Step 2 instead of whatever URL was set during cleanup — the Imgur URL is permanent and not subject to CDN expiry.

Final report (file mode)

After all three steps complete, report:

• The recipe name
• The author's name and Instagram handle
• The recipe file path written to the vault
• The Imgur thumbnail URL
• The original Instagram post URL