README.md

This is a simple gRPC / Connect proxy over the Chomp API, which provides high-quality data on over 875,000 grocery products, branded foods, and raw ingredients in the United States, and all around the world.

You browse the APIs here.

Getting an API token

Subscribe to Chomp's Food API. You'll need to supply some credit card information, but obtaining an API key should be straight-forward.

Interacting with the API

Head over to Buf Studio and start making calls. You'll need to set your key as the api_key header.

• Look up a food product by barcode
• Search for foods by name

Deployment

This is running on a free, 512MB Render instance.