Random meal/recipe API

Return a random full meal recipe via TheMealDB (keyless, free) with ingredients+measures as clean arrays and instructions split into steps. Answers 'give me a random recipe', 'surprise me with a meal', 'what should I cook tonight', 'pick a random dish'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/food-meal-random

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache3600s public

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

Integration docs

Example request

{}

Example response

{
  "meal": {
    "id": "52772",
    "name": "Teriyaki Chicken Casserole",
    "altName": null,
    "category": "Chicken",
    "area": "Japanese",
    "ingredients": [
      {
        "name": "soy sauce",
        "measure": "3/4 cup"
      }
    ],
    "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",
  "properties": {}
}

Output schema

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