Restaurant APIs

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About Restaurant APIs

Everyone loves going out to eat. In addition to providing a break from cooking, restaurants often have menu items that would be too difficult to make at home. In a busy city, customers can sample dishes from around the world. The restaurant industry has come to depend on digital resources for online menus, ordering and delivery. Programmers who develop resources for this space will reach out to restaurant APIs.

What is a restaurant API?

APIs are digital structures that allow a third-party app or website to interact with information on a web server. Restaurant-centered APIs relate to several aspects of the food industry. TheFork API offers reviews of local restaurants. The Documenu API performs location-based searches for eating establishments. Other APIs are involved with ordering and delivery services.

How does a restaurant API work?

For APIs that offer data about restaurants, apps will send a GET request with any necessary endpoint data. The server will return the requested information in JSON or XML format. APIs involved with ordering take POST requests with a customer’s selections.

Who would use a restaurant API?

A wide variety of food-related sites might work with a restaurant API. A large restaurant chain might have a dedicated API for locating the closest franchise and taking orders. Nutrition and diet websites can pull calorie and macronutrient data with the right API. Restaurant review and gourmet sites will also pull up-to-date information from restaurant servers.

Why are restaurant APIs important?

Access to digital information through APIs is an important part of the online restaurant industry. People often check out online reviews of restaurants before going in person. These structures are essential to the smooth operation of delivery service apps.

What can developers expect from a restaurant API?

Most restaurant-specific APIs do not offer their resources for public use. This practice prevents double or lost orders. However, developers can draw on several resources to pull restaurant data. By connecting with the proper API, an app can receive information like nutrition numbers, ratings and current open reservations.

Are there free restaurant APIs?

Nutrition-centered APIs like the Nutritionix API often get their information from government resources. For this reason, they offer free access to their data. Other APIs charge a fee for commercial use, but they have freemium packages with limited access for testing and development.

Restaurant API SDKs

All Restaurant APIs are supported and made available in multiple developer programming languages and SDKs including:

  1. Node.js
  2. PHP
  3. Python
  4. Ruby
  5. Objective-C
  6. Java (Android)
  7. C# (.NET)
  8. cURL

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