RecipeAPI vs The Report of the Week

RecipeAPI.io searches recipes and returns parsed ingredient lists, estimated nutrition, and step-by-step cooking instructions, offered as a metered SaaS with a 500-request/month free tier before paid plans apply. A live GET against the real gateway, recipeapi.io/api/v1/recipes, returned a genuine 401 'Invalid or missing API key' JSON error while carrying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, reconfirming both cors yes and API Key auth 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.