What can I automate with the TheMealDB integration?

Look up recipes in TheMealDB, the open, crowd-sourced database of meals from around the world, through its official JSON API. Search by name or first letter, pull a meal's full recipe with its ingredients, measures, instructions, images in three sizes, and video, and browse by category, cuisine, or ingredient (including a 'what can I cook with these' search across up to four ingredients at once). Also lists every category, cuisine, and ingredient with their descriptions and artwork, and serves random, latest, and popular meal picks. Setup is one click: TheMealDB's free test key is used automatically, and supporters can paste their production key to lift the sampling on the premium discovery endpoints. Lodol supports 16 actions for TheMealDB, which you can combine with any other app in a workflow.

How do I connect TheMealDB to Lodol?

Connect TheMealDB once in your workspace and every action and trigger it supports can be added to a workflow, by you in the editor or by your AI.

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TheMealDB

Look up recipes in TheMealDB, the open, crowd-sourced database of meals from around the world, through its official JSON API.

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Actions

Steps a workflow can run in TheMealDB.

Filter TheMealDB actions

Search mealsSearch for meals whose name contains your search text, and get each match in full: category, cuisine, instructions, the ingredient list with measures, images, and the recipe video and source links.
List meals by first letterList every meal whose name begins with one letter, each in full (useful for walking the whole database a letter at a time).
Get a mealGet one meal's complete recipe by its id: category, cuisine, tags, step-by-step instructions, every ingredient paired with its measure, image URLs in three sizes, and the video and source links.
Get a random mealGet one randomly chosen meal in full: a ready-made 'what should I cook tonight' pick, complete with ingredients, measures, and instructions.
List categoriesList TheMealDB's meal categories (Beef, Dessert, Seafood, Vegan, and the rest) with each one's description and category artwork.
List category namesList just the category names, ready to loop over or feed straight into the by-category filter.
List areasList the areas (cuisines) TheMealDB files meals under, each with its country (Italian/Italy, Japanese/Japan, and so on).
List ingredientsList every ingredient TheMealDB knows, with its description, type, and artwork URLs in full, small, medium, and large.
Get an ingredientGet one ingredient's description, type, and artwork URLs in full, small, medium, and large: the images TheMealDB serves for that ingredient's name.
List meals by ingredientList every meal made with one ingredient, as compact meal summaries you can chain into a full recipe lookup.
List meals by categoryList every meal in one category, such as Seafood, Dessert, or Vegan.
List meals by areaList every meal from one area (cuisine), such as Italian, Japanese, or Canadian.
List meals by several ingredientsList meals that contain all of the ingredients you pick, up to four: the 'what can I cook with what's in the fridge' search.
Get a random meal selectionGet a selection of randomly chosen meals in full: a whole week of dinner ideas in one step.
List latest mealsGet the meals most recently added to TheMealDB, in full: a feed of new recipes to post or digest.
List popular mealsGet the meals TheMealDB currently features as popular: a ready-made 'trending recipes' list.