Recipe Search API
Edamam's Recipe Search API lets you integrate a recipe database and faceted recipe search into your websites or mobile applications.
Comparison table
| Enterprise Basic | Enterprise Core | Enterprise Plus | Enterprise Unlimited | |
| Included API Calls | 10,000 month | 500,000 month | 1,000,000 month | unlimited* |
| Throttling calls/min | 10/minute* | 100/minute* | 300/minute* | unlimited* |
| AI Assistant | 10 calls per minute/10K inbound tokens per day | 10 calls per minute/200K inbound tokens per day | 30 calls per minute/1 million inbound tokens per day | Custom |
| Recipe data (image, ingredients, title) | ||||
| Meal/Dish Type and Cuisine filters | ||||
| Diet, Health and Allergy filters | 30+ filters | 30+ filters | 30+ filters | 30+ filters |
| Food name, measure and quantity for ingredients | ||||
| Carbon Footprint | Yes | On request | On request | On request |
| 200+ Chronic conditions | No | No | No | On request |
| Recipe caching | Recipe ID, Recipe name | Recipe ID, Recipe name, Protein, Net carbs, Total fat, Kcal | Recipe ID, Recipe name, Protein, Net carbs, Total fat, Kcal | Custom |
| Shopping aisle for ingredients | ||||
| Shopping list | ||||
| Instacart ™ Shopping cart integration | ||||
| Glycemic Index | ||||
| Results per call | up to 100 results | up to 1000 results | up to 100 results | up to 1000 results |
| Attribution | Required** | Required** | Required** | Required** |
| Commercial use | ||||
| Support | Support form | E-mail + phone | E-mail + phone | Email + Phone |
| Contract duration | Month to month | Month to month | Month to month | Custom |
| $9per month Subscribe now | $99per month Subscribe Now | $399per month Subscribe Now | Custom Contact Us |
About Recipe Search API
The Recipe Search API provides access to either Web Recipe Content or to Edamam owned recipe content
WWeb Recipe content includes over 2 million recipes obtained from the public web and Edamam does not own license for those recipes. Attribution to the content owner is required and no cooking instructions are provided. Edamam provides a link back to the original recipe for the cooking instructions.
Edamam owned recipe content includes over 80,000 recipes with images and cooking instructions.
The recipes in our database are normalized and can be filtered using the Recipe API by calorie and diet preferences.
We have the most accurate automated nutrition analysis on the web powered by our proprietary Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine. Customers get detailed nutrition breakdown of each recipe with 25+ nutrients and appropriateness for all major diets.
Edamam has developed over 80 diet and health filters for your customers to use. Using the Recipe API you can develop applications for virtually any popular diet or major health condition.
The Edamam Platform Assistant is a chatbot integrated into four of Edamam’s API. This can provide an easy to use intuitive interface for your customers. The assistant allows you to submit natural language queries and receive back the necessary API calls needed in order to obtain the data requested by your query.
The Recipe Search API is integrated into this service. You can find more information on the Chatbot Assitant here
The terms of use of the Edamam Data are covered in the API Terms of Use and do not permit data caching unless explicitly permitted by Edamam. The data caching described here does not constitute permission to copy or reuse the Edamam data.
Data caching is allowed for some paid API plans when explicitly stated by plan’s terms. API subscribers can cache only the four basic macro nutrient datapoints - protein, total fat, net carbs and calories as well as the recipe URI, recipe title and recipe image. Saved data can be used only in the end user's account, behind a password. The caching as described here does not allow API subscribers to build a copy of the Edamam data to be reused in any form or to build a recipe search. The API still provides full nutrient data which can be displayed on call without caching and API subscribers can only cache the nutrients and data elements described above. Active subscription to an eligible plan is required as long as the data is used.
* All plans allow only human, end user driven requests. The terms of the API prohibit any automated programatic requests with the goal to collect, scrape or save data provided by the API. The data returned in the response can be only used for presentation to the human end user who initiated the request and can not be stored unless explicitely permetted by Edamam . Edamam reserves the right to determine if the API is being used by automated means in which case the access to the API will be stopped immediately without refund to paid monthly fee.
** All Edamam plans require the following attribution by using the image provided here and a link to http://developer.edamam.com . For the Recipe Analysis API, such attribution should be placed right next to the nutrition facts. You can see the available image formats and examples from other customers here. Not providing attribution is considered breach of contract and is followed by immediate service suspension.