Open Food Facts database and API

Open Food Facts database and API

Open Food Facts is a crowd-sourced, global database of packaged food products by barcode (ingredients, nutrition, Nutri-Score, labels, origins), with a keyless JSON API and nightly bulk exports. The terms of use say: "The Open Food Facts database is available under the Open Database License." and "Products images are available under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike licence."

Coverage

Crowd-sourced global packaged-food products by barcode (ingredients, nutrition, Nutri-Score, labels, origins); continuous community edits; nightly CSV/Parquet/MongoDB exports for bulk use. Total product count and history start: Not stated on the checked pages.

Verdict

A keyless JSON API (plus nightly bulk exports) over Open Food Facts' crowd-sourced packaged-food database. The API docs state: "15 req/min/IP address for all read product queries" and "10 req/min/IP address for all search queries"; bulk work should use the nightly exports instead of the live API. Attribution and share-alike apply under the ODbL for the database, and images carry their own CC BY-SA licence. Data is crowd-sourced, so accuracy is not guaranteed. Signal Lab links only.