Open Food Facts Document API

The Document API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for document.

Operations 1

GET /document/{identifier} Get Document #

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OpenAPI Specification

open-food-facts-document-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: search-a-licious Document API
  description: 'The Search-a-licious API helps you quickly build applications with search capabilities.


    You can find the API documentation here.


    See also the available web-components to build your search interface.


    See the project for more information.'
  contact:
    name: The Open Food Facts team
    url: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/
    email: contact@openfoodfacts.org
  license:
    name: ' AGPL-3.0'
    url: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html
  version: 0.1.0
tags:
- name: Document
paths:
  /document/{identifier}:
    get:
      summary: Get Document
      description: Fetch a document from Elasticsearch with specific ID.
      operationId: get_document_document__identifier__get
      parameters:
      - name: identifier
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          title: Identifier
      - name: index_id
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
          - type: string
          - type: 'null'
          description: "Index ID to use for the search, if not provided, the default index is used.\n        If there is only one index, this parameter is not needed."
          title: Index Id
        description: "Index ID to use for the search, if not provided, the default index is used.\n        If there is only one index, this parameter is not needed."
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
      tags:
      - Document
components:
  schemas:
    ValidationError:
      properties:
        loc:
          items:
            anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: integer
          type: array
          title: Location
        msg:
          type: string
          title: Message
        type:
          type: string
          title: Error Type
      type: object
      required:
      - loc
      - msg
      - type
      title: ValidationError
    HTTPValidationError:
      properties:
        detail:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationError'
          type: array
          title: Detail
      type: object
      title: HTTPValidationError