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Open Food Facts / Search food products by name or brand

Searches Open Food Facts' 4M+ products by words in the name or brand. Answer: count, page, pagesize and products, each with code (barcode), productname, brands, quantity, categories, nutriscoregrade, novagroup and imageurl; pass a code to open-food-facts-product for ingredients and nutrition. Up to 50 per page. Open Food Facts allows about 10 searches a minute per IP (shared by every looot customer): a 429 is ratelimited at $0. Data from Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), a crowd-sourced database under the Open Database License (ODbL): credit Open Food Facts with a link; a database you build from it must stay under ODbL; product photos are CC BY-SA. Data can be incomplete or wrong; check the pack for allergies. Free, no key.

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Published API evidence

Public metadata only. Response bodies, credentials, and internal review notes are never displayed.

No verification date is claimed. No response capture is claimed.

Request parameters

fields query · optional
Fixed at code,product_name,brands,quantity,categories,nutriscore_grade,nova_group,image_url. Leave it out.
json query · optional
Fixed at 1. Leave it out.
page query · optional
Page number, from 1.
page_size query · optional
Products per page, 1 to 50. Default 20.
search_simple query · optional
Fixed at 1. Leave it out.
search_terms query · required
Words to search, e.g. nutella or oat milk.

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