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AGRAgriculture & FoodDatasetFreeNo keyOpen licence

Open Food Facts database and API

Crowd-sourced global packaged-food products by barcode (ingredients, nutrition, Nutri-Score, labels, origins); continuous community edits; nightly CSV/Parquet/MongoDB exports for bulk use. Total product count and history start: Not stated on the checked pages.

Open world.openfoodfacts.org
Signal Scoredraft model
98
Access
No key · none
20
Licence clarity
ODbL-1.0 · terms linked
20
Evidence
4 source links checked
18
Freshness
verified 2026-11-09
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage · attribution
20

// Terms and limits

Access
none
Free tier
Free, keyless JSON API within the stated per-minute limits; nightly CSV/Parquet/MongoDB exports for bulk use.
Rate limits
"15 req/min/IP address for all read product queries"; "10 req/min/IP address for all search queries"; bulk work should use the nightly exports instead.
Licence
ODbL-1.0terms
Licence note
The terms of use say: "The Open Food Facts database is available under the Open Database License." and "Products images are available under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike licence." Recorded as ODbL-1.0 for the database; product images carry a separate CC BY-SA licence.
Attribution
Required (ODbL attribution and share-alike for the database; CC BY-SA for images).

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-09

  1. 01world.openfoodfacts.org/data
  2. 02world.openfoodfacts.org/terms-of-use
  3. 03openfoodfacts.github.io/openfoodfacts-server/api/
  4. 04world.openfoodfacts.org/api/v2/product/3017624010701.json?fields=product_name,brands

// Good for

agriculture-foodfood-productslabelsapicrowdsourced

// The same record, for agents

Request · get_entry
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  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_entry",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "open-food-facts"
    }
  }
}
Reply · selected fields
{
  "name": "Open Food Facts database and API",
  "slug": "open-food-facts",
  "domain": "Agriculture & Food",
  "type": "Dataset",
  "badge": "Free",
  "auth": "none",
  "rateLimits": "\"15 req/min/IP address for all read product queries\"; \"10 req/min/IP address for all search queries\"; bulk work should use the nightly exports instead.",
  "license": "ODbL-1.0",
  "licenseUrl": "https://world.openfoodfacts.org/terms-of-use",
  "lastVerified": "2026-11-09",
  "evidenceUrls": [
    "https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data",
    "https://world.openfoodfacts.org/terms-of-use",
    "https://openfoodfacts.github.io/openfoodfacts-server/api/",
    "https://world.openfoodfacts.org/api/v2/product/3017624010701.json?fields=product_name,brands"
  ],
  "tasks": [
    "agriculture-food",
    "food-products",
    "labels",
    "api",
    "crowdsourced"
  ],
  "providerUrl": "https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data"
}

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