Meals by category API

List meals in a category (e.g. Beef, Chicken, Vegetarian, Dessert) via TheMealDB (keyless, free), returning lightweight meal stubs with id, name, and thumbnail. Answers 'list vegetarian meals', 'what desserts are there', 'meals in the seafood category', 'show me beef dishes'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

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

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache86400s public

foodmealcategoryrecipefilterthemealdbvegetariandessert

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

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "category": "Seafood"
}

Example response

{
  "category": "Seafood",
  "count": 2,
  "meals": [
    {
      "id": "52959",
      "name": "Baked salmon with fennel & tomatoes",
      "thumbnail": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/media/meals/1548772327.jpg",
      "category": null,
      "area": null
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "category"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "Seafood",
        "Vegetarian",
        "Dessert"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

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