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recipes

Search Recipes by Ingredients

Ever wondered what recipes you can cook with the ingredients you have in your fridge or pantry? This endpoint lets you find recipes that either maximize the usage of ingredients you have at hand (pre shopping) or minimize the ingredients that you don't currently have (post shopping).

get/recipes/findByIngredients

Query parameters

ingredientsstring
Example:carrots,tomatoes

A comma-separated list of ingredients that the recipes should contain.

numberinteger
Example:10

The maximum number of items to return (between 1 and 100). Defaults to 10.

limitLicenseboolean
Example:true

Whether the recipes should have an open license that allows display with proper attribution.

rankingnumber
Example:1

Whether to maximize used ingredients (1) or minimize missing ingredients (2) first.

ignorePantryboolean

Whether to ignore typical pantry items, such as water, salt, flour, etc.

Response

Success

idinteger required
imagestring required
imageTypestring required
likesinteger required
missedIngredientCountinteger required
titlestring required
unusedIngredientsobject[] required
usedIngredientCountnumber required