🍲 Foodish 🍛 
A Node.js/Express.js REST API to GET a random picture of food dishes.
Demo
Visit https://foodish-api.herokuapp.com/
API Documentation
Base URL for all endpoints https://foodish-api.herokuapp.com/
The response time will likely be a few seconds long on the first request, because this app is running on a free Heroku dyno. Subsequent requests will behave as normal.
Endpoints
| Routes | Description |
|---|---|
GET /api/ |
Random food dish from random category. |
Example Request-
GET /api/
Example Response-
{"image":"https://foodish-api.herokuapp.com/images/burger/burger101.jpg"}
| 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.herokuapp.com/images/biryani/biryani32.jpg"}
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.herokuapp.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 Bhagali
- Special thanks to Rajaraman Ekambaram for providing the initial Foodish image database via Kaggle.
- Special thanks to RitaE for providing some additional Foodish images via Pixabay.
Please note that I do not own any of the Foodish dataset images. All Foodish images and their ownership belong to their original creators.
Support
Please create a new issue for support and issues.
Contributing
Please read the CONTRIBUTING for details on adding images to the Foodish Database.
Contributors
License
This project is licensed under MIT. Please read the LICENSE for details.