Food & Drink · head-to-head
Open Food Facts vs The Report of the Week
Open Food Facts is a crowdsourced, open database of food products worldwide, covering ingredients, nutrition facts, allergens, and Nutri-Score/Eco-Score ratings, with full bulk exports available alongside the live API. A live GET against the real gateway, world.openfoodfacts.org, returned a genuine product record while carrying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, resolving cors unknown -> yes; auth None was reconfirmed by the same keyless 200.
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.
| Open Food Facts | The Report of the Week | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON, CSV | JSON |
| CORS | yes | no |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
Open Food Facts supports CORS, while The Report of the Week doesn't — pick Open Food Facts for direct browser calls.