Top Grocery Store APIs# Grocery API
## About Grocery APIs
Purchasing food at a grocery store is something most people do at least once a week. For consumers who like to plan their food run or search for the best deal, online applications can be a big help. Shoppers use websites to see what is on sale, search for coupons, plan menus, and write shopping lists. When a developer is creating a website or application focused on groceries or grocery stores, the project will make a connection to a grocery API.
What is a grocery API?
A grocery API is an online database with information about grocery stores and their products. There are many aspects to the food distribution industry. Some APIs related to this industry focus on food. With a resource like the Good Foods API, a user can access nutrition information about products by searching bar codes. Price is another factor. The Grocerybear API provides comparison data for the same products at stores in several cities.
## How does a grocery store API work?
When a connected application sends a GET request to the API, the database sends back the requested information in JSON or XML format. Food-related APIs will let the user search by product or product category. A grocery store database has information about individual locations of a store chain. A grocery delivery API may deliver information about drivers or subscribers to the service.
## Who would use a grocery store API?
There are many avenues for creating grocery-related applications that would call on an API. A developer might be working on a commercial application for a grocery chain to use internally. Consumer applications could revolve around price searches, nutrition information, or locating unusual ingredients. Health and wellness applications might also use a grocery store API to help users choose products that encourage healthy eating habits.
## Why are grocery-related applications important?
Everyone must eat, and groceries take up a big piece of the weekly budget of most homes. Grocery delivery APIs make it easier for people with mobility issues to get the food they need. Grocery price applications help families with lower incomes get the most from their shopping runs.
## What can a developer expect from grocery APIs?
With an approved connection, these APIs will give developers access to data about food products and grocery store locations. A grocery delivery API may have information about a delivery service’s client base and orders. A client’s application will POST the order to the API where the delivery service can find the information to gather the items and make the delivery.
## Are there examples of free grocery APIs?
Many foods and nutrition APIs such as the Edamam API list information that is publicly available, so they offer access at no charge or have a freemium package for applications that make less frequent requests. Because grocery delivery APIs often have private client information, they may not be publicly available or will require a charge for use.
<h2>Best Grocery Store APIs</h2>
There are many [food and recipe APIs](https://rapidapi.com/collection/food-apis) out there, but we've gathered the top ones we thought were worth mentioning in this grocery store API collection. Use these APIs to help build grocery shopping lists, delivery, and other integrations.
<h2>Top APIs for Groceries</h2>
1. [Tasty API](https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/tasty)
2. [MyCookbook.io API](https://rapidapi.com/mycookbook/api/mycookbook-io1)
3. [Edamam Food and Grocery Database API](https://rapidapi.com/edamam/api/edamam-food-and-grocery-database)
4. [Spoonacular API](https://rapidapi.com/spoonacular/api/recipe-food-nutrition)
5. [Nutrionix API](https://rapidapi.com/msilverman/api/nutritionix-nutrition-database)
<h2>Summary: Most Popular Grocery Store APIs</h2>
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<th>API</th><th>Popularity Score</th><th>Latency</th><th>Success Rate</th>
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<td>Search grocery product reviews by barcode</td><td>6.8/10</td><td>1290ms</td><td>100%</td>
</tr>
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<td>Spoonacular</td><td>9.8/10</td><td>663ms</td><td>95%</td>
</tr>
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<td>Edamam</td><td>9.4/10</td><td>253ms</td><td>76%</td>
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<td>Nutrionix</td><td>8.6/10</td><td>740ms</td><td>93%</td>
</tr>
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<td>Recipes to grocery store</td><td>5.1/10</td><td>1451ms</td><td>100%</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2>Related FAQ</h2>
<h3>Does Instacart have an API?</h3>
No, but they have a few open source projects located at https://www.instacart.com/opensource.
<h3>Which Grocery Stores have APIs?</h3>
Per Quora:
<blockquote>Most online grocery e-commerce websites have private APIs (that means, APIs that are not explicit to the public or to developers in general).
These are used mostly to exchange price and product information with Price Comparison Tools, that have to have access to real-time data to be able to inform the correct prices for every store at their websites.</blockquote>
Consider using the APIs in this collection instead for your grocery store API needs.
<h3>Which programming languages are the grocery store APIs available in?</h3>
<a href="https://docs.rapidapi.com/docs/getting-started-with-rapidapi-sdks">RapidAPI SDKs</a> are available in:
<ul>
<li>Node.js</li>
<li>PHP</li>
<li>Python</li>
<li>Ruby</li>
<li>Java</li>
<li>Objective-C</li>
<li>.NET</li>
<li>RapidQL</li>
</ul>
Most APIs will return a JSON (and sometimes an XML) response.
This API provides you with tools to find nutrition and diet data for generic foods, packaged foods and restaurant meals. In addition it employs NLP (Natural Language Processing) which allows for extraction of food entities from unstructured text.
Covered Use Cases:
-Search for a food by keyword, food name or UPC/Barcode
-Sourcing of nutrition facts for a given food, including: macro and micro nutrients, allergen labels, lifestyle and health labels
-Search for a food by given nutrient quantity for 28 nutrients
-Seach for foods within a given brand
-Built in food-logging context it allows for NLP requests for chat bots and natural language calorie counters
The first reviews engine for products that works directly from grocery stores while you are shopping.
GoodFoods offers the latest information on healthy eating options and to provide recommendations and reviews that inform your personal choices. As a member of the GoodFoods community, you can browse the site, check out reviews, and leave your own comments on products you’ve tried. The feedback you provide will help inform others, giving everyone the resources they need to make quality choices.
The spoonacular Recipe - Food - Nutrition API gives you to access to thousands of recipes, storebought packaged foods, and chain restaurant menu items. Our food ontology and semantic recipe search engine makes it possible to search for recipes using natural language queries, such as "gluten free brownies without sugar" or "low fat vegan cupcakes." You can automatically calculate the nutritional information for any recipe, estimate recipe costs, visualize ingredient lists, find recipes for what's in your fridge, find recipes based on special diets, nutritional requirements, or favorite ingredients, classify recipes into types and cuisines, convert ingredient amounts, or even compute an entire meal plan. With our powerful API, you can create many kinds of food and nutrition apps.
Special diets/dietary requirements currently available include: vegan, vegetarian, pescetarian, gluten free, grain free, dairy free, high protein, low sodium, low carb, Paleo, Primal, ketogenic, and more.
Quickly and efficiently retrieve high-quality data on over 535,000 food products. We provide nutrition labels, ingredients, diet compatibility, barcodes, and more. Use a barcode or product name to retrieve detailed data. Check out our website for more information.
Since we understand the recipe – ingredients, diets, allergies, nutrition, taste, techniques & more. We can connect your users with the best recipes available for their unique food preferences.
Search over 2 million recipes
- Search our large recipe database. We add new sites and recipes continuously.
- You will also get access to over 5000 top web recipe sources
- Our search algorithm returns the most relevant recipes from the most popular and best recipes sources on the web. We order recipes by their cookability and quality so your customer can always count on getting the best recipes!
Semantically organized database
- The recipes in our database are normalized and can be filtered in the search by calorie and diet preferences.
Full nutrition for each recipe
- 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.
- Filter by calories, diet or allergy restrictions
- Edamam has developed over 35 diet and health filters for your customers to use. Now you can develop applications for virtually any popular diet or major health condition.
Recipe caching
- Edamam may allow caching for those customer on custom plans.
This API provides functionality to build a recipe site and meal planning system which can be connected to an online grocery store. For demonstration of a site implementing the API please visit https://madplan.nu. The API documentation is in progress, meaning more methods is being added during the next months.
What’s for Supper? app helps users by providing them with a means to figure out what
can be cooked based on entering the available ingredients in the household
WFS? is presented with an animated video splash screen intro page upon open
WFS? users can register through the app or through authentic Facebook login
WFS? aims to be a free app trial for 30 days and offers an In-App Purchase of $.99
cents for full use of the app including additional In-App Purchases for more features
GPS Integration will allow users directions to all nearby supermarkets and groceries
What’s for Supper? Allows users to create custom family and allergy profiles
WFS? camera feature will allow users to snap photos of food that can be added to the
app for determining best dishes to make including recipes and nutritional information
WIFI or Data connection is required for What’s for Supper? real time results
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