New York Public Library What's On The Menu

New York Public Library What's On The Menu Dishes API

Dish records appearing across menus.

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Operations 4

GET /dishes List dishes

GET /dishes/{id} Get dish

GET /dishes/{id}/menus Get menus for a dish

GET /dishes/search Search dishes

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: NYPL What's On The Menu Dishes API
  description: The New York Public Library's What's On The Menu API provides programmatic access to over 17,000 historical restaurant menus from the New York City area dating back to the 1850s. Explore menus, pages, and dishes including prices, names, dates, and full-text search across the dataset.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: NYPL Menus API
    email: menus@nypl.org
    url: http://nypl.github.io/menus-api/
servers:
- url: http://api.menus.nypl.org
  description: Production
security:
- apiToken: []
tags:
- name: Dishes
  description: Dish records appearing across menus.
paths:
  /dishes:
    get:
      tags:
      - Dishes
      summary: List dishes
      description: List dishes with optional filtering. 100 dishes per page by default.
      parameters:
      - name: min_year
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: max_year
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: sort_by
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - name
          - date
          - popularity
          - obscurity
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Collection of dishes.
  /dishes/{id}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Dishes
      summary: Get dish
      description: Retrieve a specific dish by ID.
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Single dish.
  /dishes/{id}/menus:
    get:
      tags:
      - Dishes
      summary: Get menus for a dish
      description: List menus that contain the given dish.
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Menus containing the dish.
  /dishes/search:
    get:
      tags:
      - Dishes
      summary: Search dishes
      description: Full-text search across dishes.
      parameters:
      - name: query
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: sort_by
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - relevance
          - date
          - name
          - popularity
          - obscurity
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Search results.
components:
  securitySchemes:
    apiToken:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: token
      description: 26-character API token. Request access by emailing menus@nypl.org with subject "API ACCESS".

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