Open Food Facts
Open Food Facts is a collaborative, free and open database of food products from around the world, built by everyone for everyone. Anyone can scan a barcode and contribute product data, and the whole database is published under the Open Database License so it can be re-used for any purpose. The project publishes a documented public HTTP API for reading and writing product data, plus a family of companion services — Open Prices, Search-a-licious full-text search, the Folksonomy engine, facet knowledge panels and the NutriPatrol moderation API — alongside official SDKs in Python, JavaScript, Dart, Ruby, PHP and Go.
Open Food Facts publishes 46 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Cgi API, Product API, Search API, and 43 more. Tagged areas include Food, Nutrition, Open Data, Product Data, and Barcodes.
The Open Food Facts catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Open Food Facts’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, signup flow, engineering blog, authentication, and 41 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government and Open Data | undeclared | - | - | - |
| Agriculture and Food (Farm Data, Nutrition) | undeclared | - | - | - |
| Browser Extension Stores (company-published Firefox add-ons; Chrome Web Store unreadable) | undeclared | - | - | - |
| Obsidian Community Plugins (third-party APIs the Obsidian plugin ecosystem integrates) | undeclared | - | - | - |
| OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders | undeclared | - | - | - |
| Official SDKs on Packagist, pub.dev and Hex | undeclared | - | - | - |
| Open Food Facts brand owners (food product data) | undeclared | - | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
APIs 46
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Open Food Facts Cgi API
The Cgi API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for cgi.
Open Food Facts Product API
The Product API from Open Food Facts — 3 operation(s) for product.
Open Food Facts Search API
The Search API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for search.
Open Food Facts Taxonomy API
The Taxonomy API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for taxonomy.
Open Food Facts Taxonomy Suggestions API
The Taxonomy Suggestions API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for taxonomy suggestions.
Open Food Facts Admin - Property Management API
The Admin - Property Management API from Open Food Facts — 3 operation(s) for admin - property management.
Open Food Facts Admin - Value Management API
The Admin - Value Management API from Open Food Facts — 2 operation(s) for admin - value management.
Open Food Facts Auth API
The auth API from Open Food Facts — 2 operation(s) for auth.
Open Food Facts Authentication API
Endpoints for user authentication and session management.
Open Food Facts Autocomplete API
The Autocomplete API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for autocomplete.
Open Food Facts Badges API
The badges API from Open Food Facts — 3 operation(s) for badges.
Open Food Facts Challenges API
The challenges API from Open Food Facts — 2 operation(s) for challenges.
Open Food Facts Document API
The Document API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for document.
Open Food Facts Flags API
The Flags API from Open Food Facts — 3 operation(s) for flags.
Open Food Facts Health API
The Health API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for health.
Open Food Facts Images API
Endpoints for uploading, cropping, rotating, and managing product images.
Open Food Facts Keys & Values API
Browse available keys and their possible values
Open Food Facts Knowledge Panel API
Return different knowledge panels based on the facet provided.
Open Food Facts Knowledge Panels API
Endpoints for retrieving knowledge panels for tags and categories.
Open Food Facts Locations API
The locations API from Open Food Facts — 7 operation(s) for locations.
Open Food Facts Metrics API
The Metrics API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for metrics.
Open Food Facts Moderation API
The moderation API from Open Food Facts — 4 operation(s) for moderation.
Open Food Facts Nutrients API
Endpoints for retrieving nutrition-related data and facts.
Open Food Facts Nutripatrol API
The Nutripatrol API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for nutripatrol.
Open Food Facts OCR API
Endpoints for optical character recognition on product labels.
Open Food Facts Off Test API
The Off Test API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for off test.
Open Food Facts Open Food Facts Knowledge Panels API
The Open Food Facts Knowledge Panels API API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for open food facts knowledge panels api.
Open Food Facts Personal Search API
Endpoints for personalized search and recommendations.
Open Food Facts Price Tags API
The price-tags API from Open Food Facts — 2 operation(s) for price-tags.
Open Food Facts Prices API
The prices API from Open Food Facts — 4 operation(s) for prices.
Open Food Facts Product Attributes API
Endpoints for retrieving product attribute groups and user preference importance values.
Open Food Facts Product Tags API
CRUD operations for product tags and properties
Open Food Facts Products API
Endpoints for managing product data and information.
Open Food Facts Proofs API
The proofs API from Open Food Facts — 9 operation(s) for proofs.
Open Food Facts Receipt Items API
The receipt-items API from Open Food Facts — 2 operation(s) for receipt-items.
Open Food Facts Render to HTML API
Render html based on knowledge panels.
Open Food Facts Robots.txt API
The Robots.txt API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for robots.txt.
Open Food Facts Schema API
The Schema API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for schema.
Open Food Facts Search A Licious API
The Search A Licious API API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for search a licious api.
Open Food Facts Stats API
The Stats API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for stats.
Open Food Facts Status API
The Status API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for status.
Open Food Facts Suggestions API
Endpoints for getting suggestions to aid in product editing.
Open Food Facts System API
System health and general API information
Open Food Facts Tickets API
The Tickets API from Open Food Facts — 3 operation(s) for tickets.
Open Food Facts User API
The User API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for user.
Open Food Facts Users API
The users API from Open Food Facts — 3 operation(s) for users.
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Open Collections 6
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Open Food Facts Cgi API
OPEN COLLECTIONOpen Food Facts Cgi Product API
OPEN COLLECTIONOpen Food Facts Cgi Search API
OPEN COLLECTIONOpen Food Facts Cgi Taxonomy API
OPEN COLLECTIONOpen Food Facts Cgi Taxonomy Suggestions API
OPEN COLLECTIONOpen Food Facts API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Open Food Facts Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Open Food Facts Finops
FINOPSSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Open Food Facts — robotoff rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 7
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Open Food Facts Api V2 Overlay
GENERATEDOpen Food Facts Api V3 Overlay
GENERATEDOpen Food Facts Folksonomy Overlay
GENERATEDOpen Food Facts Nutripatrol Overlay
GENERATEDOpen Food Facts Open Prices Overlay
GENERATEDOpen Food Facts Search A Licious Overlay
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Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
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Resources
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 8
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 6
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 8
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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