MyNetDiary Food Search Web Services

You can integrate powerful MyNetDiary food lookup features right into your web application and use MyNetDiary as a back-end service provider.

    Such an integration has numerous advantages compared to simply licensing our 115,000 food database:
  • MyNetDiary search engine maintains multiple food indices and applies smart search algorithms every time you submit a request.
  • Food lookup results are returned with all matches highlighted.
  • Food lookup results are sorted by popularity based on multiple years of usage in MyNetDiary program.
  • All food data updates will be immediately available for your application.
  • You can reduce time-to-market and lower initial investment necessary to deliver your application.
  • Service uptime is 99.9% or better.
  • Average server-side search time is less than 100 milliseconds.
  • Food Search Web Services costs 0.5c per query, no setup charges applied.

Web Services

We provide two web services, FindFood and GetFoodDetails.
Input format: HTTP request parameters or SOAP.
Output format: JSON or SOAP.

FindFood Web Service

This service returns foods based on search criteria, with search tokens highlighted in food descriptions, in a paginated manner, sorted by popularity within MyNetDiary community. We do not charge for Development usage, Production usage is billed monthly.

Example invocation:

https://mynetdiary.com/wsjsFindFood.do?
searchCriteria=whole+milk&pageNumber=1&pageSize=15

Example output:

Found Foods

GetFoodDetails Web Service

This service returns food details: nutrition facts and serving information. We do not charge for calling this service.

Example invocation:

http://mynetdiary.com/wsjsGetFoodDetails.do?foodId=1077

Example output:

Food Details

More information

Please, request your Development credentials and additional information via info@mynetdiary.com.