Recipe lookup (TheMealDB) API

Find recipes by meal name or by a main ingredient (TheMealDB): category, cuisine, ingredients with measures, and instructions. For cooking/meal-planning agents. Answers 'recipe for arrabiata', 'meals with chicken', 'how do I make X', 'what can I cook with Y'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/recipe

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache86400s public

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API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/recipe

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "query": "arrabiata",
  "limit": 1
}

Example response

{
  "query": "arrabiata",
  "count": 1,
  "meals": [
    {
      "name": "Spicy Arrabiata Penne",
      "category": "Vegetarian",
      "cuisine": "Italian",
      "ingredients": [
        {
          "ingredient": "penne rigate",
          "measure": "1 pound"
        }
      ],
      "instructions": "Bring a large pot of water to a boil…",
      "thumbnail": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/…",
      "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…"
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "arrabiata"
      ]
    },
    "ingredient": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "chicken"
      ]
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "default": 5
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}