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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41.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessPaidSelf serve

7 APIs

RecipesMeal PlanningGrocery ListsNutritionFoodCooking

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Composite quality — 41.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.1 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

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

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APIs 7

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

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.

JSON Schema 56

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

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Examples 66

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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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

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

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.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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: '0.19'
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:
  - 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

BigOven

APIs 7

Pricing Plans 1

Rate Limits 1

FinOps 1

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Spectral Rules 1

JSON Schema 56

Examples 66