Open Food Facts · OpenAPI Overlay 1.0.0

API Evangelist enrichment overlay — Open Food Facts API v2

3 actions 3 updates update extends open-food-facts-api-v2-openapi.yml
Generated by API Evangelist Written by API Evangelist tooling for Open Food Facts's API. It is a proposal applied on top of the contract, not a document Open Food Facts publishes.
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What the actions change

x-api-evangelistx-rate-limitsx-client-identification

Targets 1

$.info

OpenAPI Overlay

Raw ↑
overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist enrichment overlay — Open Food Facts API v2
  version: 1.0.0
extends: open-food-facts-api-v2-openapi.yml
x-generated: '2026-09-17'
x-method: generated
x-source: API Evangelist enrichment pipeline; every value traced to the artifact or docs URL named in the action.
actions:
- target: $.info
  description: Record the API Evangelist enrichment artifacts that accompany this contract.
  update:
    x-api-evangelist:
      provider: Open Food Facts
      providerId: open-food-facts
      profile: https://apis.io/provider/open-food-facts/
      artifacts:
        authentication: authentication/open-food-facts-authentication.yml
        conventions: conventions/open-food-facts-conventions.yml
        errors: errors/open-food-facts-problem-types.yml
        rate_limits: rate-limits/open-food-facts-rate-limits.yml
        lifecycle: lifecycle/open-food-facts-lifecycle.yml
        data_model: data-model/open-food-facts-data-model.yml
        vocabulary: vocabulary/open-food-facts-taxonomies.yml
- target: $.info
  description: Carry the published per-IP rate limits, which the contract itself does not declare.
  update:
    x-rate-limits:
      product_reads_per_minute_per_ip: 15
      search_per_minute_per_ip: 10
      exhausted_status: 503
      headers: null
      source: https://openfoodfacts.github.io/openfoodfacts-server/api/
- target: $.info
  description: State the identification requirement every client must satisfy.
  update:
    x-client-identification:
      header: User-Agent
      format: AppName/Version (ContactEmail)
      required: true
      source: https://openfoodfacts.github.io/openfoodfacts-server/api/

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