Open Food Facts

Open Food Facts Knowledge Panels API

Endpoints for retrieving knowledge panels for tags and categories.

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Operations 2

1 of 2 operations are conformant: apis.io called them with no credentials and the responses matched this contract. Checked 2026-11-12. how this works · status file

GET /api/v3/tag/{tagtype}/{tag_or_tagid} Get Tag Knowledge Panels #
GET /api/v3/external_sources List external knowledge panel sources (JSON) conformant #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://openfoodfacts.github.io/openfoodfacts-server/api/
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Documentation
https://prices.openfoodfacts.org/api/docs

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://artifacts.apis.io/open-food-facts/openapi/open-food-facts-knowledge-panels-api-openapi.yml

Other Resources

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ChangeLog
https://openfoodfacts.github.io/openfoodfacts-server/api/ref-api-and-product-schema-change-log/

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OpenAPI Specification

open-food-facts-knowledge-panels-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Open Food Facts Open API V3 - under development Knowledge…
  description: 'As a developer, the Open Food Facts API allows you to get information

    and contribute to the products database. You can create great apps to

    help people make better food choices and also provide data to enhance the database.


    **IMPORTANT**: Please read the API introduction before using this API.


    **WARNING** v3 is under development and you should expect changes


    The current version of API v3 is v3.4

    See the change log for the API and product schema'
  termsOfService: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/terms-of-use
  contact:
    name: Open Food Facts
    url: https://slack.openfoodfacts.org/
    email: reuse@openfoodfacts.org
  license:
    name: License (MIT, Apache 2.0, etc)
    url: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/index.html
  version: '3'
servers:
- url: https://world.openfoodfacts.org
  description: prod
- description: dev
  url: https://world.openfoodfacts.net
security:
- userAgentAuth: []
tags:


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# Full source: https://artifacts.apis.io/open-food-facts/openapi/open-food-facts-knowledge-panels-api-openapi.yml