List the axes a recipe search can be narrowed along on BBC Good Food, with the values each one takes and how many recipes carry them. Pass 'query' to measure the counts inside one search, or leave it out for the site's whole listing. Read this before narrowing a search: the site accepts any value on a facet and answers one it does not know with a total of zero, so a guessed spelling comes back as a confident absence. The values listed are an excerpt of the most frequent ones, and the site accepts others that are not shown.

Search recipes on BBC Good Food and return a listing. Narrow it with 'diet', 'cuisine', 'meal_type', 'difficulty' or a bound such as 'max_total_minutes'; call list_filters first for the values each one takes, since the site answers a value it does not know with a count of zero. The site ranks rather than filters: it answers a term it holds nothing for with rows all the same, so read the titles rather than trusting the count. Each row carries the page to read the recipe on.

Read one recipe on BBC Good Food: its ingredients, its steps, its times, its rating and its nutrition. Pass the 'id' a search_recipes row carries, which is the page's own path. A recipe behind the site's subscription comes back with everything except its ingredients and steps, and says so: its page on the site is where a subscriber reads it. The site writes many of its recipes twice, once for its own readers and once restated for readers in the United States, and 'unit_system' chooses which of the two to read.

Put a list of ingredient lines to a different number of people. Pass 'factor', or else the pair 'from_servings' and 'to_servings'. Quantities are recomputed by this server and not by the site, and every line says under 'scaling' whether the arithmetic landed exactly, whether the figure was moved to stay usable in a kitchen, or whether the line carried nothing to multiply.