Look Up Meals Using API-Assigned IDs

Learn how we can use the API-assigned IDs to look up meals.

We can use the API-assigned IDs of meals to access recipes for meals directly. In this lesson, we’ll look at how to use these IDs to fetch recipes.

Fetch required info using ID

TheMealDB API provides an endpoint with which we can search for the recipes using API-assigned IDs. The base URI for this endpoint is https://www.themealdb.com/api/json/v1/1/lookup.php.

Request parameter

This endpoint has only one query parameter, which is as follows:

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