Meals by area/cuisine API

List meals from a cuisine/area (e.g. Italian, Japanese, Mexican, Canadian) via TheMealDB (keyless, free), returning meal stubs with id, name, and thumbnail. Answers 'list Japanese dishes', 'what Mexican meals are there', 'recipes from Italy', 'show me Canadian food'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/food-meal-by-area

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache86400s public

foodmealareacuisinerecipethemealdbcountryregional

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/food-meal-by-area

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "area": "Canadian"
}

Example response

{
  "area": "Canadian",
  "count": 1,
  "meals": [
    {
      "id": "52928",
      "name": "BeaverTails",
      "thumbnail": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/media/meals/ryppsv1511815505.jpg",
      "category": null,
      "area": null
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "area"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "area": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "Canadian",
        "Japanese",
        "Italian"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

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