Yummly

Yummly is a recipe and food discovery platform (yummly.com) offering semantic and visual recipe search, personalized recommendations, shopping lists, and guided cooking. Founded in 2009 (Redwood City, CA), Yummly was acquired by Whirlpool Corporation in May 2017 and operated as a wholly owned subsidiary tied to Whirlpool's smart-kitchen strategy. Yummly historically ran a well-known public Recipe API (developer.yummly.com) exposing recipe search, recipe details, and metadata endpoints. That developer program was DEPRECATED - it stopped accepting new signups and was wound down (commonly cited end date of September 30, 2019), and the developer.yummly.com developer portal and api.yummly.com endpoints are no longer available. There is no public Yummly developer API accepting new registrations as of this cataloging (2026-07-03); the APIs below are documented as historical / modeled for archival and migration reference only.

Yummly publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Recipes, Food, Cooking, Recipe Search, and Food Discovery.

Yummly’s developer surface includes documentation and 5 more developer resources.

19.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessFreemiumFree trial
3 APIs
RecipesFoodCookingRecipe SearchFood DiscoveryDeprecatedHistorical

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Composite quality — 19.6/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.3 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 3

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

Yummly Recipe Search API (Historical)

DEPRECATED / HISTORICAL. The Search Recipes endpoint (GET http://api.yummly.com/v1/api/recipes) returned recipe matches as JSON with optional filters combined via AND - free-tex...

Yummly Recipe Details API (Historical)

DEPRECATED / HISTORICAL. The Get Recipe endpoint (GET http://api.yummly.com/v1/api/recipe/{recipe-id}) returned the full detail for a single recipe by its Yummly recipe id - ing...

Yummly Metadata API (Historical)

DEPRECATED / HISTORICAL. The Metadata endpoints (GET http://api.yummly.com/v1/api/metadata/{key}) returned the controlled vocabularies used to build search filters - keys includ...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Yummly Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Yummly Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 1

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

Yummly Domain Security

TLSv1.2

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: yummly
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yummly/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Yummly
kind: company
description: Yummly is a recipe and food discovery platform (yummly.com) offering semantic and visual recipe search, personalized
  recommendations, shopping lists, and guided cooking. Founded in 2009 (Redwood City, CA), Yummly was acquired by Whirlpool
  Corporation in May 2017 and operated as a wholly owned subsidiary tied to Whirlpool's smart-kitchen strategy. Yummly historically
  ran a well-known public Recipe API (developer.yummly.com) exposing recipe search, recipe details, and metadata endpoints.
  That developer program was DEPRECATED - it stopped accepting new signups and was wound down (commonly cited end date of
  September 30, 2019), and the developer.yummly.com developer portal and api.yummly.com endpoints are no longer available.
  There is no public Yummly developer API accepting new registrations as of this cataloging (2026-07-03); the APIs below are
  documented as historical / modeled for archival and migration reference only.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: true
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium (free trial)
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/yummly.png
tags:
- Recipes
- Food
- Cooking
- Recipe Search
- Food Discovery
- Deprecated
- Historical
created: '2026-07-03'
modified: '2026-07-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: yummly:yummly-recipe-search-api
  name: Yummly Recipe Search API (Historical)
  tags:
  - Recipe Search
  - Search
  - Deprecated
  - Historical
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.yummly.com/documentation.html
  baseURL: http://api.yummly.com/v1/api
  properties:
  - url: https://developer.yummly.com/documentation.html
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developer.yummly.com/
    type: APIReference
  description: DEPRECATED / HISTORICAL. The Search Recipes endpoint (GET http://api.yummly.com/v1/api/recipes) returned recipe
    matches as JSON with optional filters combined via AND - free-text query (q), maxResult / start paging, and facets such
    as allowedIngredient/excludedIngredient, allowedCuisine, allowedCourse, allowedAllergy, allowedDiet, allowedHoliday, maxTotalTimeInSeconds,
    and nutrition/taste ranges. Authenticated with _app_id and _app_key query parameters. This endpoint and the developer.yummly.com
    program are no longer available; endpoint modeled from historical documentation and community client libraries.
- aid: yummly:yummly-recipe-details-api
  name: Yummly Recipe Details API (Historical)
  tags:
  - Recipe Details
  - Recipe
  - Deprecated
  - Historical
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.yummly.com/documentation.html
  baseURL: http://api.yummly.com/v1/api
  properties:
  - url: https://developer.yummly.com/documentation.html
    type: Documentation
  description: DEPRECATED / HISTORICAL. The Get Recipe endpoint (GET http://api.yummly.com/v1/api/recipe/{recipe-id}) returned
    the full detail for a single recipe by its Yummly recipe id - ingredient lines, nutrition estimates, flavor/taste profile,
    total cooking time, source attribution, and image URLs. Authenticated with _app_id and _app_key query parameters. No longer
    available; endpoint modeled from historical documentation and community client libraries.
- aid: yummly:yummly-metadata-api
  name: Yummly Metadata API (Historical)
  tags:
  - Metadata
  - Taxonomy
  - Deprecated
  - Historical
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.yummly.com/documentation.html
  baseURL: http://api.yummly.com/v1/api
  properties:
  - url: https://developer.yummly.com/documentation.html
    type: Documentation
  description: DEPRECATED / HISTORICAL. The Metadata endpoints (GET http://api.yummly.com/v1/api/metadata/{key}) returned
    the controlled vocabularies used to build search filters - keys included ingredient, allergy, diet, cuisine, course, holiday,
    technique, source, brand, and restriction. Used to populate valid facet values for the Search Recipes endpoint. No longer
    available; endpoints modeled from historical documentation and community client libraries.
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/yummly-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.yummly.com
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/yummly
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.yummly.com/documentation.html
- type: Plans
  url: plans/yummly-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/yummly-rate-limits.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com