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BBC Good Food API

BBC Good Food (bbcgoodfood.com) has 2 public methods: search recipes and get recipe. Each costs 1 credit per completed run (1¢ with pay as you go); failed runs are free.

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Methods

2

  • Search recipes

    Finds BBC Good Food recipes for a dish or ingredients in search order, with ratings, time, difficulty, photos and links. Excludes app-only recipes.

    Returns title, star rating, number of ratings, total time, difficulty, photo link, recipe link

    Readbbcgoodfood.com/search_recipes

  • Get recipe

    Gets a full BBC Good Food recipe by dish name or recipe link, including ingredients, method and nutrition per serving. A name uses the closest matching recipe in site search; details absent from the page are null.

    Returns title, author, ratings, times, servings, difficulty, ingredients, method steps, nutrition per serving

    Readbbcgoodfood.com/get_recipe