Full recipe by meal id API

Look up a complete meal recipe by its TheMealDB id (keyless, free), returning ingredients+measures as clean arrays, step-by-step instructions, category, cuisine, tags, and video link. Answers 'get recipe for meal 52772', 'full details of this dish id', 'ingredients and steps for meal X', 'show me the recipe by id'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/food-meal-details

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache86400s public

foodmealrecipedetailslookupthemealdbingredientsinstructions

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

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "id": "52772"
}

Example response

{
  "id": "52772",
  "found": true,
  "meal": {
    "id": "52772",
    "name": "Teriyaki Chicken Casserole",
    "altName": null,
    "category": "Chicken",
    "area": "Japanese",
    "ingredients": [
      {
        "name": "soy sauce",
        "measure": "3/4 cup"
      },
      {
        "name": "brown rice",
        "measure": "3 cups"
      }
    ],
    "instructions": "Preheat oven to 350F...",
    "steps": [
      "Preheat oven to 350F."
    ],
    "tags": [
      "Meat",
      "Casserole"
    ],
    "thumbnail": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/media/meals/wvpsxx1468256321.jpg",
    "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aZr5hZXP_s",
    "source": null
  }
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "52772"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

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