Foodish

About Foodish

Foodish is a Node.js/Express.js REST API that returns a random picture of a food dish. A GET request to the base endpoint returns a random image from a random food category, while a category-specific endpoint returns a random image from a specified food category, with the response given as a JSON object containing an image URL.

The API is built on a dataset of food images sourced from a Kaggle database and supplemented with additional images from Pixabay. Documentation is provided via an OpenAPI/Swagger v3 specification, and a hosted demo is available at foodish-api.com.

The project targets developers who need placeholder food images, for example for restaurant website mockups or a "guess the food dish" style game. It is open source under the MIT license, and the hosted service is free to use, running on a free hosting instance that can cause a longer response time on the first request.

Key features

• Random food dish image from any category via GET /api/
• Random image from a specific food category via GET /api/images/:food
• OpenAPI/Swagger v3 documentation available
• Free to use REST API
• MIT licensed and open source

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