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API Reference (OAuth 2.0)

Overview
Foods
- Find id for barcode*
- Get by id v3
- Get by id v2 (deprecated)
- Get by id v1 (deprecated)
- Autocomplete search expression v2*
- Autocomplete search expression* (deprecated)
- Search v2*
- Search v1
Food Brands
- Get all v2*
- Get all* (deprecated)
Food Categories
- Get all v2*
- Get all* (deprecated)
Food Sub Categories
- Get all v2*
- Get all* (deprecated)
Recipes
- Get by id v2
- Get by id v1 (deprecated)
- Search v3
- Search v2 (deprecated)
- Search v1 (deprecated)
Recipe Types
- Get all v2
- Get all v1 (deprecated)

API Reference (OAuth 1.0)

Overview

Foods
- Find id for barcode*
- Get by id v3
- Get by id v2 (deprecated)
- Get by id v1 (deprecated)
- Autocomplete search expression v2*
- Autocomplete search expression* (deprecated)
- Search v2*
- Search v1
Food Brands
- Get all v2*
- Get all* (deprecated)
Food Categories
- Get all v2*
- Get all* (deprecated)
Food Sub Categories
- Get all v2*
- Get all* (deprecated)
Recipes
- Get by id v2
- Get by id v1 (deprecated)
- Search v3
- Search v2 (deprecated)
- Search v1 (deprecated)
Recipe Types
- Get all v2
- Get all v1 (deprecated)
Exercises
- Get all v2
- Get all (deprecated)
Profile - Foods
- Create v2*
- Create v1* (deprecated)
- Add favorite
- Delete favorite
- Get favorites v2
- Get favorites (deprecated)
- Get most eaten v2
- Get most eaten (deprecated)
- Get recently eaten v2
- Get recently eaten (deprecated)
Profile - Recipes
- Add favorite
- Delete favorite
- Get favorites v2
- Get favorites (deprecated)
Profile - Saved Meals
- Create meal
- Delete meal by id
- Edit meal by id
- Get all meals v2
- Get all meals (deprecated)
- Add food to meal
- Delete food from meal
- Edit food in meal
- Get all foods in meal v2
- Get all foods in meal (deprecated)
Profile - Authentication
- Create profile
- Get profile status
- Get profile auth
Profile - Food Diary
- Copy entries between dates
- Copy entries between meals
- Get all entries v2
- Get all entries (deprecated)
- Get all entries for month v2
- Get all entries for month (deprecated)
- Create entry by id
- Delete entry by id
- Edit entry by id
Profile - Exercise Diary
- Commit day
- Get all for date v2
- Get all for date (deprecated)
- Get calories expended for month v2
- Get calories expended for month (deprecated)
- Save template
- Edit entries for date
Profile - Weight Diary
- Update for date
- Get for month v2
- Get for month (deprecated)

* denotes methods only available at the PREMIER level

Developers

REST API

API Reference (OAuth 2): Food Brands: Get all v2

Food Brands: Get all v2

Description

This is a utility method, returning the list of food brands.

Why are we introducing this version?

This version contains an update to the JSON output structure.

Localization (Premier Only):

Two additional optional parameters named region and language are available to premier clients. More information can be found in the Localization guide.

Parameters

Required

Name	Type	Description
method	String	MUST be "food_brands.get.v2"

Optional

Name	Type	Description
format	String	The desired response format. Valid reponse formats are "xml" or "json" (default value is "xml").
starts_with	String	Food brands that begin with the first letter is returned. The "*" will return all food brands beginning with a numeric character. If this is not specified then the most popular food brands at the time is returned. E.G.: "Kraft" will return all food brands beginning "k"
brand_type	String	The type of brand to return. Valid brand types are "manufacturer", "restaurant" and "supermarket" (default value is "manufacturer")

Example Return XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<food_brands xmlns="http://platform.fatsecret.com/api/1.0/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://platform.fatsecret.com/api/1.0/ http://platform.fatsecret.com/api/1.0/fatsecret.xsd">

<food_brand>Kraft</food_brand>

</food_brands>