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BigOven

BigOven is a recipe and meal planning platform providing access to over 1,000,000 recipes via a REST API. Developers can search recipes, retrieve nutritional information, manage cloud-based grocery lists, and build diet and meal planning features. The API is offered by Aisle Ahead, Inc. and supports commercial food, nutrition, diet, and grocery applications.

BigOven publishes 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Collection API, GroceryList API, Images API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Recipes, Meal Planning, Grocery Lists, Nutrition, and Food.

The BigOven catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

BigOven’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 9 more developer resources.

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31.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
AccessPaid
1 APIs
RecipesMeal PlanningGrocery ListsNutritionFoodCooking

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
Composite quality — 31.0/100 · thin
Contract Quality 8.5 / 19
Developer Ergonomics 1.8 / 15
Access Clarity 7.0 / 15
Operational Transparency 0.5 / 10
Contract Governance 0.9 / 9
Discoverability 5.0 / 8
Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15
Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
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APIs 7

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

BigOven Collection API

The Collection API from BigOven — 3 operation(s) for collection.

BigOven GroceryList API

The GroceryList API from BigOven — 8 operation(s) for grocerylist.

BigOven Images API

The Images API from BigOven — 6 operation(s) for images.

BigOven Me API

The Me API from BigOven — 6 operation(s) for me.

BigOven Note API

The Note API from BigOven — 3 operation(s) for note.

BigOven Recipe API

The Recipe API from BigOven — 21 operation(s) for recipe.

BigOven Review API

The Review API from BigOven — 6 operation(s) for review.

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Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

1,000,000+ Recipe and Grocery List API (v2) Collection API

OPEN COLLECTION

1,000,000+ Recipe and Grocery List API (v2) Collection GroceryList API

OPEN COLLECTION

1,000,000+ Recipe and Grocery List API (v2) Collection Images API

OPEN COLLECTION

1,000,000+ Recipe and Grocery List API (v2) Collection Me API

OPEN COLLECTION

1,000,000+ Recipe and Grocery List API (v2) Collection Note API

OPEN COLLECTION

1,000,000+ and Grocery List API (v2) Collection Recipe API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Bigoven Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Bigoven Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Bigoven Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Bigoven Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

BigOven API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 56

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

API2.Controllers.WebAPI.GroceryListController.DepartmentModel

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Controllers.WebAPI.GroceryListController.PostGroceryListAddLineRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Controllers.WebAPI.GroceryListController.PostGroceryListRecipeRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Controllers.WebAPI.GroceryListController.PostGroceryListSyncRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Controllers.WebAPI.GroceryListController.PostToGroceryListRecipeRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Controllers.WebAPI.GroceryListController.UpdateItemByGuidRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Controllers.WebAPI.ImagesController.RecipePhotosResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Controllers.WebAPI.MeController.EatingStyle

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Controllers.WebAPI.MeController.Option

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Controllers.WebAPI.MeController.PreferenceOptions

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Controllers.WebAPI.NoteController.NoteRequest

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Controllers.WebAPI.ReviewController.PostReplyReq

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Controllers.WebAPI.ReviewController.ReviewRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Controllers.WebAPI.ReviewController.ReviewRequestLegacy

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.GroceryListDepartmentResult

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Models.Accounting

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Models.BigOvenUser

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Models.Counts

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Models.Location

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Models.Personal

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Models.Preference

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Models.Profile

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Models.Recipes.FeedbackDTO

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Models.Recipes.RecipeResponse

47 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Models.Recipes.RecipeVideoResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

API2.Result

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API.Grocery.GroceryList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API.Grocery.Item

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API.Image

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API.Ingredient

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API.IngredientInfo

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API.NutritionInfo

23 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API.Recipe

45 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API.RecipeInfo

24 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API.RecipeNote

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API.RecipeNoteList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API.Reply

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API.Review

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API.UserInfo

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API.UserInfoTiny

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API2.CollectionInfo

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API2.GroceryList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API2.Photo

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API2.Recipe

46 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API2.RecipeInfox

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API2.RecipeNote

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API2.RecipeSearchResult

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.API2.UserInfoTinyx

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.InstructionStep

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.RecipeCategory

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.RecipeInfoDateTuple2

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.RecipeInfoReviewTuple2

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.RecipeInfoTiny

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Model.ShoppingListLine

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BigOven.Result

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

System.Object

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Examples 66

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Collection_Collections

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Collection_Getcollection

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Collection_Getcollectionmeta

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Grocerylist_Addrecipe

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Grocerylist_Delete

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Grocerylist_Deleteitembyguid

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Grocerylist_Department

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Grocerylist_Get

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Grocerylist_Grocerylistitemguid

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Grocerylist_Grocerylistremovemarkeditems

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Grocerylist_Post

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Grocerylist_Postgrocerylistsync

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Images_Get

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Images_Getpendingbyuser

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Images_Getrecipephotos

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Images_Getscanimages

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Images_Uploadrecipeimage

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Images_Uploaduseravatar

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Me_Getoptions

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Me_Index

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Me_Putme

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Me_Putmepersonal

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Me_Putmepreferences

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Me_Skinny

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Note_Delete

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Note_Get

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Note_Getnotes

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Note_Post

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Note_Put

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Autocomplete

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Autocompleteallrecipes

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Autocompletemyrecipes

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Categories

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Delete

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Feedback

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Get

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Getactiverecipe

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Getrandomrecipe

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Getrecipewithsteps

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Getstep

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Getstepnumber

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Getsteps

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Getv2

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Post

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Put

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Raves

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Recentviews

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Recipesearch

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Recipesearchrandom

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Related

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Scan

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Recipe_Zaprecipe

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Review_Delete

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Review_Deletereply

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Review_Get

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Review_Getreplies

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Review_Getreviews

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Review_Post

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Review_Postreply

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Review_Put

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Review_Putlegacy

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Review_Putreply

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Get Recipe Recipeid Review

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Get Recipe Review Reviewid

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Post Grocerylist Item

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Put Me Profile

8 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Bigoven Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Bigoven Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Bigoven Agentic Access

66 operations · 33 acting

66 operations · 33 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg
GitHubOrg

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: bigoven
name: BigOven
description: BigOven is a recipe and meal planning platform providing access to over 1,000,000 recipes via a REST API. Developers
  can search recipes, retrieve nutritional information, manage cloud-based grocery lists, and build diet and meal planning
  features. The API is offered by Aisle Ahead, Inc. and supports commercial food, nutrition, diet, and grocery applications.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bigoven.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bigoven/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Recipes
- Meal Planning
- Grocery Lists
- Nutrition
- Food
- Cooking
apis:
- aid: bigoven:bigoven-collection-api
  name: BigOven Collection API
  description: The Collection API from BigOven — 3 operation(s) for collection.
  humanURL: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation
  baseURL: https://api2.bigoven.com
  tags:
  - Collection
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bigoven-collection-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/authentication
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/feestructure
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/usage-throttling
- aid: bigoven:bigoven-grocerylist-api
  name: BigOven GroceryList API
  description: The GroceryList API from BigOven — 8 operation(s) for grocerylist.
  humanURL: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation
  baseURL: https://api2.bigoven.com
  tags:
  - GroceryList
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bigoven-grocerylist-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/authentication
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/feestructure
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/usage-throttling
- aid: bigoven:bigoven-images-api
  name: BigOven Images API
  description: The Images API from BigOven — 6 operation(s) for images.
  humanURL: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation
  baseURL: https://api2.bigoven.com
  tags:
  - Image
  tags_raw:
  - Images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bigoven-images-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/authentication
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/feestructure
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/usage-throttling
- aid: bigoven:bigoven-me-api
  name: BigOven Me API
  description: The Me API from BigOven — 6 operation(s) for me.
  humanURL: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation
  baseURL: https://api2.bigoven.com
  tags:
  - Me
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bigoven-me-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/authentication
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/feestructure
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/usage-throttling
- aid: bigoven:bigoven-note-api
  name: BigOven Note API
  description: The Note API from BigOven — 3 operation(s) for note.
  humanURL: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation
  baseURL: https://api2.bigoven.com
  tags:
  - Note
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bigoven-note-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/authentication
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/feestructure
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/usage-throttling
- aid: bigoven:bigoven-recipe-api
  name: BigOven Recipe API
  description: The Recipe API from BigOven — 21 operation(s) for recipe.
  humanURL: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation
  baseURL: https://api2.bigoven.com
  tags:
  - Recipe
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bigoven-recipe-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/authentication
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/feestructure
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/usage-throttling
- aid: bigoven:bigoven-review-api
  name: BigOven Review API
  description: The Review API from BigOven — 6 operation(s) for review.
  humanURL: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation
  baseURL: https://api2.bigoven.com
  tags:
  - Review
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bigoven-review-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/authentication
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/feestructure
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/usage-throttling
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/bigoven-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bigoven-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/bigoven-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.bigoven.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/bigoven
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bigoven-com
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.bigoven.com/article
- type: Pricing
  url: https://api2.bigoven.com/web/documentation/feestructure
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/bigoven
- type: Plans
  url: plans/bigoven-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/bigoven-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/bigoven-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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