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Spoonacular

Cook with Spoonacular's food API: search 365,000 recipes by ingredients, diet, cuisine or nutrients, get a recipe's ingredients, method, nutrition and price, read recipes from web pages, parse and convert ingredient lines, look up grocery products by barcode and chain restaurant menu items, plan meals, build shopping lists and pair wines.

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Steps a workflow can run in Spoonacular.

  • Search recipesSearch Spoonacular's 365,000 recipes by name or words, cuisine, diet, intolerances, meal type, ingredients, time to make, servings and nutrients, each with its details: time, servings, diets, health score, price per serving and summary. Costs 1 point plus 0.035 a recipe, and a point more with any nutrient limit.
  • Find recipes by ingredientsFind recipes to make with the ingredients you have: each with which of them it uses and which other ingredients it needs. Costs 1 point plus 0.01 a recipe.
  • Find recipes by nutrientsFind recipes within nutrient limits per serving, such as under 500 calories with at least 30 g of protein, each with its calories, protein, fat and every limited nutrient. Spoonacular's search answers 0 g of carbohydrates for every recipe, so a 0 is left out; Get a recipe has the real figure. Costs 1 point plus 0.01 a recipe.
  • Get a recipeGet a recipe by ID: its ingredients with amounts in metric and US units, method step by step, time, servings, diets, scores, price per serving, summary and source, and optionally its nutrition, taste and a wine pairing. Costs 1 point, plus 0.1 for nutrition, 0.5 for taste and 1 for a wine pairing.
  • Get several recipesGet up to 100 recipes by ID in one request, each as Get a recipe gives it. Cheaper than one at a time: 1 point for the first and 0.5 for each after it.
  • Get similar recipesFind recipes like a given one, each with its time, servings and source. Costs 1 point plus 0.01 a recipe.
  • Get random recipesGet random popular recipes, each as Get a recipe gives it: a recipe of the day, say. Narrow them with tags such as vegetarian, dessert or italian. Costs 1 point plus 0.01 a recipe, and 0.5 a recipe with nutrition.
  • Autocomplete recipe namesSuggest recipe names that complete what someone has started typing, such as chick. Costs 0.1 points.
  • Get recipe instructionsGet a recipe's method step by step, each step with the ingredients and equipment it uses and any time or oven temperature, plus every ingredient and piece of equipment needed, once each.
  • Get a recipe's price breakdownGet what a recipe costs to make, ingredient by ingredient, with the total and the cost a serving, in US cents.
  • Extract a recipe from a web pageRead the recipe on a web page (its title, ingredients, method, servings and time) into a recipe like Get a recipe's, to save or analyze. Can also read a recipe video on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook or Pinterest. Costs 1 point, plus 1 to analyze, 1 to force a fresh read and 50 points for a video.
  • Analyze a recipeAnalyze your own recipe from its title, servings, ingredient lines and method: Spoonacular reads each ingredient and works out the recipe's diets, dish types, cuisines, price, scores and method step by step, and optionally its nutrition and taste. Costs 1 point, plus 0.5 each for nutrition and taste.
  • Parse ingredientsRead ingredient lines such as 2 cups flour, sifted into their ingredient, amount and unit, with each one's aisle, estimated cost and units, and optionally its nutrition. Costs 1 point a line, or 1.1 with nutrition.
  • Convert an amountConvert an amount of an ingredient between units, such as 2.5 cups of flour to grams. Converting between volume and weight takes the ingredient into account.
  • Estimate nutrition by dish nameEstimate the calories, protein, fat and carbohydrates of a dish from its name alone, such as Spaghetti Aglio et Olio, with a 95% confidence range for each.
  • Classify a recipe's cuisineWork out a recipe's cuisine, such as Mediterranean, from its title and ingredients. Costs 0.1 points.
  • Answer a nutrition questionAnswer a food or nutrition question asked in plain words, such as How much vitamin C is in 2 apples?
  • Find foods in textFind every dish and ingredient mentioned in a piece of text, such as a message or a review, each tagged dish or ingredient.
  • Search ingredientsSearch simple foods (fruit, vegetables, nuts, grains, meat, fish, dairy) by name, with the IDs Get an ingredient takes. Narrow by how much of their calories come from protein, fat or carbohydrates.
  • Autocomplete ingredient namesSuggest ingredients whose names complete what someone has started typing, such as appl. Costs 0.1 points.
  • Get an ingredientGet an ingredient by ID in an amount, such as 150 grams of pineapple: its nutrition, estimated cost, supermarket aisle, categories and the units it comes in.
  • Get ingredient substitutesGet what to use instead of an ingredient, such as 1 cup = 7/8 cup shortening and 1/2 tsp salt for butter. Empty when Spoonacular knows none.
  • Search grocery productsSearch 800,000 packaged grocery products by name, such as greek yogurt, optionally within calorie and nutrient limits. Costs 1 point plus 0.01 a product; details cost a point a product.
  • Get a grocery productGet a packaged product by ID: its ingredients, badges (such as gluten free), nutrition per serving, servings, price and aisle.
  • Get a product by UPCLook up a packaged product by its barcode (UPC): its ingredients, badges, nutrition per serving, servings, price and aisle.
  • Get comparable productsFind products comparable to one, by its barcode (UPC), grouped by what they compare on: calories, likes, price, protein, Spoonacular's score and sugar.
  • Autocomplete product namesSuggest grocery products whose names complete what someone has started typing, such as chicke. Costs 0.1 points.
  • Classify a grocery productMatch a packaged product's name to a basic food category, such as Kroger Vitamin A & D Reduced Fat 2% Milk to 2 percent milk, with its USDA code. Costs 0.5 points.
  • Map ingredients to productsFind grocery products to buy for each ingredient on a list, such as eggs and bacon, each with its UPC. Costs 1 point an ingredient.
  • Search menu itemsSearch 115,000 dishes on the menus of 800 fast food and restaurant chains, such as a Big Mac, optionally within calorie and nutrient limits. Costs 1 point plus 0.01 an item; details cost a point an item.
  • Get a menu itemGet a restaurant chain's menu item by ID: its chain, nutrition per serving, servings and badges.
  • Autocomplete menu item namesSuggest menu items whose names complete what someone has started typing, such as chicke. Costs 0.1 points.
  • Generate a meal planPlan breakfast, lunch and dinner for a day or a week, close to a daily calorie target, for a diet and without what you leave out, with each day's calories, protein, fat and carbohydrates.
  • Compute a shopping listTurn a list of things to buy, such as 4 lbs tomatoes and 10 tomatoes, into a shopping list: like items added up, sorted by supermarket aisle, with amounts in metric and US units and costs.
  • Get a wine pairingFind wines that go with a food (a dish such as steak, an ingredient such as salmon, or a cuisine such as italian), why they do, and a bottle on sale.
  • Get dishes for a wineFind dishes that go well with a kind of wine, such as steak and stew with malbec, and why.
  • Describe a wineDescribe a kind of wine in a sentence, such as Merlot is a dry red wine which is smooth and medium bodied.
  • Get wine recommendationsRecommend bottles on sale of a kind of wine, such as merlot, within a price and above a rating, each with its price, rating and a link to buy it. Costs 1 point plus 0.01 for every matching bottle, not only those returned.
  • Get a random food jokeGet a random joke about food. Spoonacular warns that some are for adults.
  • Get random food triviaGet a random food fact.
  • Search food videosSearch YouTube's recipe and food videos, by words, meal type, cuisine, diet, ingredients and length, each with its link, thumbnail, views and rating. Costs 1 point plus 0.01 a video.

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