Open Food Facts
Search and contribute to the Open Food Facts database.
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About
Search and contribute to the Open Food Facts database.
Details
- Kind
- MCP servers
- Topic
- Databases
- Publisher
- domdomegg
- Origin
- official
- Category
- ferramentas
- Transport
- local
- Version
- 2.6.0
- Stars
- 3
- Last push
- 2026-09-03T02:48:37Z
- Repository state
- ativo
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Added
- 2026-08-29 03:02:43
- Updated
- 2026-08-29 03:02:43
- Origin id
io.github.domdomegg/openfoodfacts-mcp
README
# openfoodfacts-mcp MCP server for the [Open Food Facts](https://world.openfoodfacts.org/) API - search, read, and contribute to the world's largest open food database. ## Use Cases **Look up a product by name**: "How many calories in a Sainsbury's buffalo chicken wrap?" -> searches by name, finds the product, and returns nutrition data. **Look up a product by barcode**: "What's in this product with barcode 3017620422003?" -> fetches Nutella's ingredients, Nutri-Score, and nutrition data. **Find healthy options**: "Search for breakfast cereals with Nutri-Score A" -> searches with category and nutrition grade filters. **Contribute data**: "Add the product name and brand for barcode 12345678" -> creates or updates a product entry on Open Food Facts. **Explore the database**: "What brands of organic chocolate are in the database?" -> uses autocomplete and search to explore. ## Setup Follow the instructions on [install-mcp](https://adamjones.me/install-mcp/?config=eyJjb21tYW5kIjoibnB4IiwiYXJncyI6WyIteSIsIm9wZW5mb29kZmFjdHMtbWNwIl0sIm5hbWUiOiJvcGVuZm9vZGZhY3RzIiwiZW52Ijp7Ik9GRl9VU0VSX0FHRU5UIjoib3BlbmZvb2RmYWN0cy1tY3AvMS4yLjAgKHlvdUBleGFtcGxlLmNvbSkifX0=), which generates the right config for your MCP client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, VS Code, and more). Set `OFF_USER_AGENT` to identify your app (e.g. `openfoodfacts-mcp/1.2.0 (you@example.com)`). For write operations (adding/editing products, uploading images), also set `OFF_USER_ID` and `OFF_PASSWORD`. ## Environment Variables | Variable | Required | Description | |----------|----------|-------------| | `OFF_USER_AGENT` | Yes | User-Agent string, e.g. `"AppName/1.0 (email@example.com)"` | | `OFF_USER_ID` | No | Open Food Facts username (for write operations) | | `OFF_PASSWORD` | No | Open Food Facts password (for write operations) | | `OFF_COUNTRY` | No | Country subdomain (default: `world`) | ## Tools | Tool | Description | Auth | |------|-------------|------| | `get_product` | Get product info by barcode | No | | `search_products_standard` | Search with structured filters (brand, category, Nutri-Score) | No | | `search_products_lucene` | Search with Lucene syntax, negation, and boolean logic | No | | `autocomplete` | Autocomplete brands, categories, labels, etc. | No | | `add_or_edit_product` | Add or update a product | Yes | | `upload_image` | Upload a product image | Yes | | `select_image` | Select, crop, and rotate an image | Yes | | `call_api` | Call any OFF API endpoint directly | Depends | | `get_api_docs` | Get OFF API documentation | No | ## Contributing Pull requests are welcomed on GitHub! To get started: 1. Install Git and Node.js 2. Clone the repository 3. Install dependencies with `npm install` 4. Run `npm run test` to run tests 5. Build with `npm run build` ## Releases Versions follow the [semantic versioning spec](https://semver.org/). To release: 1. Use `npm version <major | minor | patch>` to bump the version 2. Run `git push --follow-tags` to push with tags 3. Wait for GitHub Actions to publish to the NPM registry.