# spoonacular API

**Provider:** spoonacular
**Category:** search
**Base URL:** `https://api.spoonacular.com`
**Auth:** api-key — `x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY`
**Rate Limit:** 1 req/s (free)
**Free Tier:** Yes — available
**Pricing:** Enterprise / contact sales (subscription)
**Docs:** https://spoonacular.com/contact

## Description

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

## Endpoints

| Method | Endpoint | Description |
|--------|----------|-------------|
| GET | `https://api.spoonacular.com/food/converse` | Talk to Chatbot |
| GET | `https://api.spoonacular.com/food/converse/suggest` | Conversation Suggests |
| GET | `https://api.spoonacular.com/food/customFoods/search` | Search Custom Foods |
| POST | `https://api.spoonacular.com/food/detect` | Detect Food in Text |
| GET | `https://api.spoonacular.com/food/images/analyze` | Image Analysis by URL |
| GET | `https://api.spoonacular.com/food/images/classify` | Image Classification by URL |
| GET | `https://api.spoonacular.com/food/ingredients/autocomplete` | Autocomplete Ingredient Search |
| POST | `https://api.spoonacular.com/food/ingredients/glycemicLoad` | Compute Glycemic Load |

## Authentication

API key in the request header (x-api-key)

```
x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY
```

## Sample Request

```bash
curl -X GET 'https://api.spoonacular.com/food/converse' \
  -H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'
```

## Sample Response

```json
{}
```

## Pricing Details

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).

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*Source: [API Map](https://apimap.dev/apis/spoonacular/) — CC BY 4.0*