List meal categories API

List all meal categories via TheMealDB (keyless, free) with id, name, thumbnail, and description for each. Answers 'what meal categories exist', 'list all food categories', 'describe the dessert category', 'how many recipe categories are there'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/food-categories

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache86400s public

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API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/food-categories

Integration docs

Example request

{}

Example response

{
  "count": 14,
  "categories": [
    {
      "id": "1",
      "name": "Beef",
      "thumbnail": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/category/beef.png",
      "description": "Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle..."
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {}
}

Output schema

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