The spoonacular Nutrition, Recipe, and Food API allows you to access over thousands of recipes, thousands of ingredients, 800,000 food products, over 100,000 menu items, and restaurants. Our food ontology and semantic recipe search engine makes it possible to search for recipes using natural languag
https://api.spoonacular.com
Auth type
API Key Header
Auth header
x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY
Rate limit
1 req/s (free)
Pricing
Enterprise / contact sales
Free quota
None
Documentation
https://spoonacular.com/contact
Endpoint status
Server online — HTTP 405 — server is online but path returned an error (may require auth)10.76s
(checked Mar 29, 2026)
Builder score
D
38%
builder-friendly
API key in the request header (x-api-key)
x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY
Food and recipe API. Free: 150 points/day (1 endpoint call ~1pt). Vegetarian $29/mo (1.5K pts/day). Chef $79/mo (5K pts/day). Host $149/mo (15K pts/day).
| Method | Path | Description |
|---|---|---|
| GET | /food/converse |
Talk to Chatbot |
| GET | /food/converse/suggest |
Conversation Suggests |
| GET | /food/customFoods/search |
Search Custom Foods |
| POST | /food/detect |
Detect Food in Text |
| GET | /food/images/analyze |
Image Analysis by URL |
| GET | /food/images/classify |
Image Classification by URL |
| GET | /food/ingredients/autocomplete |
Autocomplete Ingredient Search |
| POST | /food/ingredients/glycemicLoad |
Compute Glycemic Load |
curl -X GET 'https://api.spoonacular.com/food/converse' \ -H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'
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Data sourced from API Map. Always verify pricing and rate limits against the official spoonacular documentation.