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Spoonacular

Recipes, ingredients, meal plans, and nutrition data

🩺 Health & FoodUNMONITOREDchecked 42 min ago
AUTH APIKEYCORS ✓AGENT ?HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

Spoonacular is a comprehensive food API — search recipes, parse ingredients, compute nutrition, and generate meal plans. Free tier with a daily point quota after signup.

—HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
▶ Run liveDocs ↗
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Uptime history
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Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://api.spoonacular.com/recipes/complexSearch?number=1&addRecipeInformation=false

{
  "status": "failure",
  "code": 401,
  "message": "You are not authorized. Please read https://spoonacular.com/food-api/docs#Authentication"
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://api.spoonacular.com/recipes/complexSearch?number=1&addRecipeInformation=false"
const res = await fetch("https://api.spoonacular.com/recipes/complexSearch?number=1&addRecipeInformation=false");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.spoonacular.com/recipes/complexSearch?number=1&addRecipeInformation=false")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
First rollup pending — GET /recipes/complexSearch?number=1&addRecipeInformation=false has been probed
GET/recipes/complexSearch?number=1&addRecipeInformation=falsePROBED

Recipes, ingredients, meal plans, and nutrition data

GET/recipes

Recipes — documented GET route.

GET/recipes/1

Recipes details by ID (example: 1).

GET/recipes?limit=10

Recipes — documented GET route.

GET/recipes/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/recipes/complexSearch?limit=5

ComplexSearch — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Spoonacular: common questions

Is Spoonacular free to use?

Yes — Spoonacular is a free health & food API. Free tier: Free — 50 points/day. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Spoonacular need an API key?

Yes — Spoonacular needs a free API key, which you pass on each request. Rate limits: 50 points/day on free plan.

Can I call Spoonacular from the browser?

Yes — Spoonacular returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Spoonacular up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Spoonacular is unmonitored. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.