Spoonacular

aid: spoonacular
name: Spoonacular
description: >-
  The Spoonacular Recipe and Food API provides programmatic access to thousands of recipes, thousands of ingredients,
  800,000+ food products, and 100,000+ menu items, plus nutrition analysis, meal planning, wine pairing, and food
  classification. Authentication is via an API key sent in the x-api-key header.
url: https://spoonacular.com/food-api
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-05-28'
modified: '2026-06-03'
x-source: public-apis/public-apis
x-category: Food & Drink
x-tier: 3
x-tier-reason: bulk-registered-from-public-apis
tags:
  - Restaurant
  - Food And Drink
  - Recipes
  - Nutrition
  - Meal Planning
  - Public APIs
apis:
  - name: Spoonacular
    description: >-
      The Spoonacular Recipe and Food API — recipes, ingredients, grocery products, menu items, meal planning, wine
      pairing, and food classification across 97 endpoints. OpenAPI 3 sourced from the official ddsky client generator
      spec. API key auth via the x-api-key header.
    humanURL: https://spoonacular.com/food-api
    baseURL: https://api.spoonacular.com
    tags:
      - Food And Drink
      - Recipes
      - Nutrition
      - Meal Planning
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://spoonacular.com/food-api/docs
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://spoonacular.com/food-api/docs
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/spoonacular-openapi.yml
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://spoonacular.com/food-api/docs#Authentication
      - type: Quickstart
        url: https://spoonacular.com/food-api/docs#Getting-Started
      - type: SDK
        title: Python SDK
        url: https://github.com/ddsky/spoonacular-api-clients/tree/master/python
      - type: SDK
        title: JavaScript SDK
        url: https://github.com/ddsky/spoonacular-api-clients/tree/master/javascript
      - type: SDK
        title: Java SDK
        url: https://github.com/ddsky/spoonacular-api-clients/tree/master/java
      - type: SDK
        title: PHP SDK
        url: https://github.com/ddsky/spoonacular-api-clients/tree/master/php
      - type: SDK
        title: Ruby SDK
        url: https://github.com/ddsky/spoonacular-api-clients/tree/master/ruby
      - type: SDK
        title: Go SDK
        url: https://github.com/ddsky/spoonacular-api-clients/tree/master/go
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/spoonacular-recipe-information-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/spoonacular-search-result-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/spoonacular-ingredient-information-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/spoonacular-product-information-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/spoonacular-menu-item-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/spoonacular-comparable-product-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/spoonacular-ingredient-basics-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/spoonacular-taste-information-schema.json
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://spoonacular.com/food-api
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://spoonacular.com/food-api
  - type: Console
    url: https://spoonacular.com/food-api/console
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://spoonacular.com/food-api/console#Dashboard
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://spoonacular.com/food-api/pricing
  - type: SDK
    title: API Clients (22 languages)
    url: https://spoonacular.com/food-api/sdk
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/ddsky
  - type: GitHubRepository
    title: API Clients
    url: https://github.com/ddsky/spoonacular-api-clients
  - type: Tutorials
    url: https://github.com/ddsky/spoonacular-api-tutorials
  - type: CodeExamples
    title: Widgets
    url: https://github.com/ddsky/spoonacular-widgets
  - type: Tools
    title: MCP Server
    url: https://github.com/ddsky/spoonacular-mcp
  - type: Tools
    title: MCP Server (npm)
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/spoonacular-mcp
  - type: PublicAPIsListing
    url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/spoonacular-spectral-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/spoonacular-vocabulary.yaml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/spoonacular-context.jsonld
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/spoonacular-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/spoonacular-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/spoonacular-finops.yml
  - type: Features
    data:
      - name: Recipe Search and Information
        description: >-
          Complex multi-filter search, search by ingredients or nutrients, full recipe information, similar/random
          recipes, autocomplete, and analyzed instructions.
      - name: Nutrition Analysis
        description: >-
          Compute and visualize nutrition for recipes, ingredients, products, and menu items including macro- and
          micronutrient breakdowns.
      - name: Ingredient Intelligence
        description: >-
          Search ingredients, get information and substitutes, parse ingredient strings, compute conversions, and look
          up glycemic load.
      - name: Grocery Products
        description: >-
          Search 800,000+ packaged food products by name or UPC, retrieve product information, compare products, and
          classify them.
      - name: Menu Items
        description: Search and retrieve 100,000+ restaurant menu items with nutrition and autocomplete.
      - name: Meal Planning
        description: Generate daily and weekly meal plans, build shopping lists, and manage meal plan templates.
      - name: Wine Pairing
        description: Recommend wine pairings for dishes and recipes and return wine descriptions and recommendations.
      - name: Food Classification and Media
        description: >-
          Classify food in images, search recipe videos, extract recipes from web pages, and return food jokes and
          trivia.
  - type: UseCases
    data:
      - name: Recipe and Cooking Apps
        description: >-
          Power consumer cooking apps with searchable recipes, step-by-step instructions, and ingredient-based
          discovery.
      - name: Diet and Nutrition Tracking
        description: Analyze meals and products for calories and nutrients to drive diet, fitness, and health applications.
      - name: Grocery and Shopping List Tools
        description: Build shopping lists from meal plans and look up packaged products by name or UPC.
      - name: AI Cooking Assistants
        description: Expose recipe, nutrition, and meal-planning operations to LLM agents through the official MCP server.
  - type: Integrations
    data:
      - name: Model Context Protocol
        description: Official spoonacular-mcp server exposes the API as MCP tools for AI assistants.
      - name: OpenAPI Generator
        description: Official multi-language client SDKs are generated from the OpenAPI 3 spec with OpenAPI Generator.
      - name: RapidAPI
        description: The Spoonacular API is also available through the RapidAPI marketplace.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com