API Documentation

Deprecation notice

Important: This documentation is being deprecated in favour of the new OpenAPI documentation (see below)

Up-to-date Documentation of the Open Food Facts API

• intro: https://openfoodfacts.github.io/openfoodfacts-server/introduction/api/
• reference: https://openfoodfacts.github.io/openfoodfacts-server/reference/api/
• The source: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/tree/main/docs/reference

Rendering of this (deprecated) documentation

The API documentation is rendered here (see above for the more up-to-date documentation):

• Stable version of the doc: https://openfoodfacts.github.io/api-documentation/
• Staging version of the doc: https://openfoodfacts.github.io/api-documentation-staging/

We have an older version available on the Wiki.

• https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Documentation

Roadmap

We need documentation maintainers

• [ ] to document new features (Eco-Score, Attributes…)
• [ ] to improve existing documents based on feedback and questions in the #api channel
• [ ] What can I help with ? https://github.com/openfoodfacts/api-documentation/issues/23

Edit this (deprecated) documentation

Remember that this project is deprecated, you should instead contribute to the OpenAPI documentation.

Install the Postman application

https://www.postman.com/downloads/

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/openfoodfacts/api-documentation
git checkout -b <DOC_FIX_BRANCH_NAME>

Edit the collection with Postman

• Open Postman
• Click "Import" then "Folder" and browse to this repository's folder.
• Postman collection and environment located in the repo will be imported in your Postman application.
• Edit the collection using the application, and once you're done click "Export"
• Rename the file as off-pm-collection.json
• Save it (overwrite the original one)

Push to git

Now it's time to propose your changes as a pull request on the repository. We're going to make a branch and commit our updated off-pm-collection.json.

Run:

git checkout -b <NEW_BRANCH_NAME>
git add off-pm-collection.json
git commit -m "<COMMIT_MESSAGE>"`
git push --set-upstream origin <NEW_BRANCH_NAME>

Once you are done:

• Open a browser
• Navigate to https://github.com/openfoodfacts/api-documentation
• Open a new PR from your branch ("Create Pull Request" button).
• View your updated documentation that was automatically deployed to the staging environment https://openfoodfacts.github.io/api-documentation-staging.

Applications using this API

Official application

The official Open Food Facts app uses the API.

Third party applications

Feel free to open a PR to add your application in this list.

• Gluten Scan. Android / iOS
• Halal & Healthy. Android / iOS
• Fitness Tracker. Android