TheMealDB API — Free Recipe Data with Ingredients and Instructions

Building a food app? TheMealDB provides free recipe data with no API key. Search Recipes https://www.themealdb.com/api/json/v1/1/search.php?s=pasta Returns: name, category, cuisine, instructions, thumbnail, YouTube link, tags. Browse by Category https://www.themealdb.com/api/json/v1/1/filter.php?c=Seafood Browse by Cuisine https://www.themealdb.com/api/json/v1/1/filter.php?a=Japanese Ingredients Each recipe has up to 20 ingredients with measures. Parse with a loop: for ( let i = 1 ; i <= 20 ; i ++ ) { const ing = meal [ `strIngredient ${ i } ` ]; if ( ing ?. trim ()) ingredients . push ( ing ); } Use Cases Meal planning apps Recipe recommendation engines Cooking blogs with auto-content Nutrition analysis tools I built a Recipe Scraper on Apify — search knotless_cadence recipe .