Fetch Available Listings

Learn how to get the lists of available categories, cuisines, and ingredients available in the database.

TheMealDB API provides a variety of filters that we may use to filter the available meals. In this lesson, we’ll look at how to retrieve the listings whose values we can use to filter the meals.

Retrieve lists

We get the lists of items we can use to filter the meals using the base URI, https://www.themealdb.com/api/json/v1/1/list.php.

This endpoint provides three types of lists, which are as follows:

  1. Categories list
  2. Cuisines list
  3. Ingredients list

Request parameters

We can use any one of the following query parameters with this endpoint:

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