Open Food Facts Taxonomy API

The Taxonomy API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for taxonomy.

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Operations 4

3 of 4 operations are conformant: apis.io called them with no credentials and the responses matched this contract; 1 more answered but could not be checked against a schema. Checked 2026-11-12. how this works · status file

GET /api/v3/taxonomy_canonicalize_tags Get canonical tags for a list of local tags conformant #

GET /api/v3/taxonomy_display_tags Get display tags in a specific language for a list of taxonomy tags conformant #

GET /api/v3/taxonomy_suggestions Get Taxonomy Suggestions conformant #

GET /api/v2/taxonomy Retrieve taxonomy entries observed #

Specifications

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https://artifacts.apis.io/open-food-facts/openapi/open-food-facts-taxonomy-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Open Food Facts Taxonomy API
  version: '1.0'
  description: 'Operations tagged Taxonomy across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: open-food-facts-api-v3-openapi.yml, open-food-facts-openapi.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://world.openfoodfacts.org
  description: prod
- description: dev
  url: https://world.openfoodfacts.net
- url: https://{country}.openfoodfacts.org
  description: Country-specific instance
  variables:
    country:
      default: world
      description: Country subdomain (e.g., us, fr, de)
tags:


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