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Spoonacular API

The Food API for Your Apps.

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Overview

The Spoonacular API provides access to a massive database of over 365,000 recipes and 86,000 food products. It allows developers to build applications with features like natural language recipe search, nutrition analysis, meal planning, and ingredient data.

✨ Key Features

  • Recipe Search (natural language, diet, ingredients)
  • Nutrition Analysis
  • Meal Planning
  • Ingredient & Food Product Data
  • Recipe Classification (cuisine, type)
  • Ingredient Amount Conversion

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Complex food ontology allowing for semantic, natural language searches.
  • Extensive database of recipes and products.
  • Broad range of API endpoints covering search, analysis, and planning.

Unique Value: Enables developers to easily integrate a vast and complex world of food data into their applications through a powerful and flexible API.

🎯 Use Cases (4)

Developers building nutrition and diet tracking apps. Food bloggers wanting to add recipe nutritional information to their site. E-commerce platforms creating shoppable recipes. Fitness apps that include meal planning features.

✅ Best For

  • Powering recipe search engines in mobile apps.
  • Automatically calculating nutritional information for user-submitted recipes.
  • Generating meal plans based on dietary preferences and goals.

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Restaurant owners needing a user-facing tool for menu costing and inventory (this is a developer tool).
  • Anyone without the technical ability to work with an API.

🏆 Alternatives

Edamam API

Spoonacular's key advantage is its semantic search and food ontology, which allows for more intelligent and human-like queries than a simple database lookup.

💻 Platforms

API

🔌 Integrations

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🛟 Support Options

  • ✓ Email Support
  • ✓ Dedicated Support (Paid plans tier)

💰 Pricing

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Free Tier Available

Free tier: A daily limit on API calls.

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