surhud004 / foodish

A Node.js/Express.js REST API to GET a random picture of food dishes.

🍲 Foodish 🍛

A Node.js/Express.js REST API to GET a random picture of food dishes.

Demo

Visit https://foodish-api.com/

API Documentation

Base URL for all endpoints https://foodish-api.com/

The response time will likely be a few seconds long on the first request, because this app is running on a free instance. Subsequent requests will behave as normal.

You may support the project here.

Endpoints

Routes	Description
GET /api/	Random food dish from random category.

Example Request-

GET /api/

Example Response-

{"image":"https://foodish-api.com/images/burger/burger101.jpg"}

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Routes	Description
GET /api/images/:food	Random picture from food category.

Please visit the demo website to view the list of available food categories.

Example Request-

GET /api/images/biryani

Example Response-

{"image":"https://foodish-api.com/images/biryani/biryani32.jpg"}

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Usage

• You are designing a restaurant website and you want to add random food pictures as placeholders.
• You are creating a guess the food dish game.
• You are ordering a pizza but you just want a random choice, visit https://foodish-api.com/images/pizza/ because that's fun! Didn't like the pizza? Just hit refresh!
• You just like to see food pictures (visual hunger) because you eat with your eyes first.

Authors

• Surhud

Please note that I do not own any of the Foodish dataset images. All Foodish images and their ownership belong to their original creators mentioned below.

Support

• Foodish is completely free to use, however, it requires some additional costs to keep the domain and service running. Help me keep it running by donating here!
• For technical support and questions, please create a new issue.

Contributing

Please read the CONTRIBUTING for details on adding images to the Foodish Database.

Credits

Foodish would not be possible without the work of:

• Rajaraman Ekambaram for providing the initial Foodish image database via Kaggle.
• RitaE for providing some additional Foodish images via Pixabay.

License

This project is licensed under MIT. Please read the LICENSE for details.

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Foodish API is maintained by surhud004.

foodish's Issues

Add to burger: 1 image

Application Error

Hi Team! I'm seeing your application is having the error below when i use it in my application:

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://foodish-api.herokuapp.com/api/' from origin 'https://carolineablynch.github.io' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.

additionally, I'm seeing https://foodish-api.herokuapp.com/ has an application error when you run the link.

Server down?

It seems like the page is down? Requests are bouncing and the landing page leads to an error:

Would it be possible to filter to show only vegan food?

Would it be possible to filter to show only vegan food?

https://foodish-api.herokuapp.com/

API not accessible
when visiting the above link I get an "application error"

It can't be used now

This API has a 503 error so that It can't use for get some foodish pictures. Would you like to fix about this server?

The returned result is HTML. How can I get the JSON containing the image address

The returned result is HTML. How can I get the JSON containing the image address

Application Error on the API

the API is brokey
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