Food & Drink · head-to-head
Edamam nutrition vs The Report of the Week
Edamam's Nutrition Analysis API parses a free-text ingredient line and returns calories, macro/micronutrients, and diet and health labels for that food or recipe, aimed at meal-tracking apps. A live GET against the real gateway, api.edamam.com, returned a genuine 401 'Unauthorized app_id' JSON error while carrying an echoed Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, resolving cors unknown -> yes and reconfirming API Key auth (an app ID and key pair) in the same probe.
The Report of the Week API exposes the full review dataset behind the YouTube food-review channel of the same name — product, manufacturer, category, and rating for thousands of reviewed snacks and drinks — as a small, free, keyless dataset service. A live GET against the real gateway, thereportoftheweekapi.com/api/v1/reports, returned genuine JSON with no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, resolving cors unknown -> no; auth None was reconfirmed by the same keyless 200, and a live docsUrl was added for its Swagger UI, distinct from the GitHub readme kept as url.
| Edamam nutrition | The Report of the Week | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | API Key | None |
| Pricing | freemium | free |
| Formats | JSON | JSON |
| CORS | yes | no |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
The Report of the Week needs no API key, while Edamam nutrition requires API Key — pick The Report of the Week to start without signup.