Recipe and Grocery List API – BigOven in the Cloud

We are getting close to shipping version 1.0 of the new BigOven Recipe and Grocery List API, which will let developers all over the world query the BigOven recipe archive, pull photos, post ratings, and more.

We’ll be exposing the Recipe and Grocery List services through this REST-based API.

What might you use it for?

• If you’re building a kitchen-application for one of the new Tablet Devices
• If you’re a Facebook Developer looking for a way to add great recipe content to your Facebook app
• If you’re an Android, Windows Mobile, iPhone or Palm OS developer
• If you’re working on Windows Media Center
• If you’re working on Home Automation Touchscreen applications
• If you’re a website developer building any website that has to do with food – e.g., grocery store website, kitchen appliance website, ethnic or regional website, etc.
• If you’re a developer that just likes experimenting with mashups, you might find it interesting.  We find these services particularly interesting to consider mashing-up with a Recipe/Grocery List API:
  • Google Calendar
  • flickr
  • Blogger services like TypePad, Blogger
  • Amazon.com
  • Web Search (e.g., Bing’s new API or Yahoo’s BOSS)
  • Weather services (it’s rainy in your zip code… how about nice bowl of chili?)
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • …and more

Of course, one of the best things about an API is that we have no way of predicting all the great ways that this will be used.

Interested?  Learn more, and register your interest at http://api.bigoven.com

Comments

[Rob Docherty]

Steve! Love your blog man. We should talk sometime. Yes, I'll follow up with a tweet. I own SimpleMealIdeas.com - don't worry big plans.