Integration

Spoonacular integration

Comprehensive food and recipe API with nutrition analysis, meal planning, and ingredient data. Access 365,000+ recipes, food products, and nutritional information. Search recipes by ingredients, diet, cuisine, and nutrition goals. Perfect for cooking apps, diet trackers, and meal planning services.

Connect Spoonacular How integrations work

Ask it in chat

Say what should happen.
The workflow builds itself.

When this happens, do that in Spoonacular.Built from the 9 Spoonacular tools below, on the connection you add once.

Common Spoonacular use cases

nutrition lookup
cooking inspiration
diet planning
recipe import
recipe display
recipe scaling
recipe discovery
what to cook tonight
ingredient autocomplete
meal prep

What you can do with Spoonacular

Each of these is one operation on one endpoint, available both as a workflow step and as a tool an AI agent can call on its own. Nothing bundles several operations into one action, so what a run did stays readable afterwards.

Most endpoints run on the free plan. A few, mainly the ones that publish on your behalf, need a paid plan.

Recipe, 4 operations

get_random_recipesGet random recipesGETGets random recipe suggestions with optional tag filtering.
get_recipeGet recipeGETRetrieves complete recipe details with ingredients, instructions, and nutrition.
search_by_ingredientsSearch by ingredientsGETFinds recipes using ingredients you already have on hand.
search_recipesSearch recipesGETSearches 365,000+ recipes with advanced dietary, cuisine, and nutrition filters.

Ingredient, 3 operations

get_ingredient_infoGet ingredient infoGETGets detailed nutritional information for a specific ingredient.
parse_ingredientsParse ingredientsPOSTParses natural language ingredient text into structured data.
search_ingredientsSearch ingredientsGETSearches for food ingredients by name.

Conversion, 1 operation

convert_amountsConvert amountsGETConverts ingredient amounts between units of measurement.

Mealplan, 1 operation

generate_meal_planGenerate meal planGETGenerates a personalized meal plan for a day or week.

Spoonacular API rate limits

60 requests per minute

Free tier: 50 points/day; most endpoints cost 1 point + 0.01 per result. Rate cap: 1 request/second.

These are the limits Spoonacular documents, not ones LiveContext measured. They can change and often depend on your plan, so check the Spoonacular documentation for current values.

Use Spoonacular from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex

Connect Spoonacular in LiveContext, create an API key in Settings, then add the LiveContext MCP server to your client. Its Spoonacular operations become tools the client can call, next to every other integration you connected.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http livecontext https://livecontext.ai/mcp --header "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Codex (~/.codex/config.toml)

[mcp_servers.livecontext]
url = "https://livecontext.ai/mcp"

[mcp_servers.livecontext.http_headers]
"X-API-Key" = "YOUR_API_KEY"

Cursor, Claude Desktop and other JSON configs

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "livecontext": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://livecontext.ai/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Set up the MCP server step by step

How to connect Spoonacular

Create your workspace
Sign up free. Nothing to install.
Connect Spoonacular once
Add your Spoonacular connection in Settings. Every tool from this integration reuses it, and secrets are encrypted at rest and visible only to you.
Describe the job in chat
The workflow builds itself in front of you and picks the endpoints it needs. Drag the steps yourself on the canvas whenever you would rather be explicit.

Spoonacular integration FAQ

What can you do with the Spoonacular integration?

LiveContext exposes 9 operations on Spoonacular, covering recipe, ingredient, conversion and mealplan. Common uses include nutrition lookup, cooking inspiration and diet planning.

What are the Spoonacular API rate limits?

Spoonacular documents 60 requests per minute. Free tier: 50 points/day; most endpoints cost 1 point + 0.01 per result. Rate cap: 1 request/second. Limits are set by Spoonacular and can depend on your plan.