About the Beef SDK

The Beef API gives you free access to "Beef. It's What's for Dinner" content including: beef imagery, triple-tested recipes, recipe collections, and nutritional data. Below you'll be able to sign-up and receive your key to integrate all this beef information into your websites and mobile applications.

API users have the benefit of our ever-expanding beef recipe and beef photography library to enhance your recipe search, beef imagery, beef ingredients, verified beef nutritional’s and more.

Get Packages

You can get the Beef API by grabbing the latest NuGet packages.

Release Notes

Get Help

Need help with the Beef API? We have a documentation site as well as API documentation.

Email question to:

api-support@beef.org

Getting Started

The Getting Started tutorial walks you through integrating the Beef API with a simple application and gives you starting points to learn more.

BeefAPI _api;
_api = new BeefAPI("AuthorizationAppID", "AuthorizationAppKey");

var recipeList = _api.GetRecipesAll();

Project

Please review the Beef API requirements and restrictions.

Examples

For examples retrieving information using the SDK please review the provided C# solutions. Each example references a single call within the SDK and provides a sample of the available information. A full list of the API calls and results can be found in our API documentation

License

The Beef API SDK is available under the MIT license.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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