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openfoodfacts-mcp

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openfoodfacts-mcp

MCP server for the Open Food Facts API - search, read, and contribute to the world's largest open food database.

Use Cases

Look up a product by name: "How many calories in a Sainsbury's buffalo chicken wrap?" -> searches by name, finds the product, and returns nutrition data.

Look up a product by barcode: "What's in this product with barcode 3017620422003?" -> fetches Nutella's ingredients, Nutri-Score, and nutrition data.

Find healthy options: "Search for breakfast cereals with Nutri-Score A" -> searches with category and nutrition grade filters.

Contribute data: "Add the product name and brand for barcode 12345678" -> creates or updates a product entry on Open Food Facts.

Explore the database: "What brands of organic chocolate are in the database?" -> uses autocomplete and search to explore.

Related MCP server: openfoodfacts-mcp-server

Setup

Follow the instructions on install-mcp, which generates the right config for your MCP client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, VS Code, and more).

Set OFF_USER_AGENT to identify your app (e.g. openfoodfacts-mcp/1.2.0 (you@example.com)). For write operations (adding/editing products, uploading images), also set OFF_USER_ID and OFF_PASSWORD.

Environment Variables

Variable

Required

Description

OFF_USER_AGENT

Yes

User-Agent string, e.g. "AppName/1.0 (email@example.com)"

OFF_USER_ID

No

Open Food Facts username (for write operations)

OFF_PASSWORD

No

Open Food Facts password (for write operations)

OFF_COUNTRY

No

Country subdomain (default: world)

Tools

Tool

Description

Auth

get_product

Get product info by barcode

No

search_products_standard

Search with structured filters (brand, category, Nutri-Score)

No

search_products_lucene

Search with Lucene syntax, negation, and boolean logic

No

autocomplete

Autocomplete brands, categories, labels, etc.

No

add_or_edit_product

Add or update a product

Yes

upload_image

Upload a product image

Yes

select_image

Select, crop, and rotate an image

Yes

call_api

Call any OFF API endpoint directly

Depends

get_api_docs

Get OFF API documentation

No

Contributing

Pull requests are welcomed on GitHub! To get started:

  1. Install Git and Node.js

  2. Clone the repository

  3. Install dependencies with npm install

  4. Run npm run test to run tests

  5. Build with npm run build

Releases

Versions follow the semantic versioning spec.

To release:

  1. Use npm version <major | minor | patch> to bump the version

  2. Run git push --follow-tags to push with tags

  3. Wait for GitHub Actions to publish to the NPM registry.

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