Zestful

About Zestful

Zestful provides an API that parses recipe ingredient strings into structured JSON data. It is aimed at developers building recipe applications who need to convert plain-text ingredient lists into machine-readable formats to support features such as searchable recipes, shopping list generation, and ingredient databases.

The service licenses its parsed data with terms allowing unlimited data retention, no restrictions on resale, and no attribution requirement. The page contrasts this with the terms of two other ingredient-parsing services, Spoonacular and Edamam, both of which prohibit developers from storing or archiving parsed data and require deletion of all obtained data if the developer's API access ends.

Key features

• Parses plain recipe ingredient strings into structured JSON data
• Enables building searchable recipe databases
• Supports generating shopping lists from ingredient data
• Licenses parsed data with unlimited retention and no resale restrictions
• Requires zero attribution for use of licensed data

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