magdiel01/nodejs-client-library

An officially supported NodeJS client library for the Nutritionix API

Official Nutritionix NodeJS Client

NOTE This is still in beta and the API may change until version 1.0

NOTE v1 of the API is currently not yet implemented

Installation

npm install nutritionix --save

// Require inside your project
var nutritionix = require('nutritionix')({
    appId: 'YOUR_APP_ID',
    appKey: 'YOUR_APP_KEY'
}, false);

// Second argument false can be changed to true
// This will tell the library to enter debugging mode
// and log additional data to the console

UPC Scan

// GET https://api.nutritionix.com/v1_1/item?upc=52200004265
nutritionix.v1_1.item({
    upc: 52200004265
}, function (err, item) {
    // ...
});

Get Item by id

// GET https://api.nutritionix.com/v1_1/item?upc=52200004265
nutritionix.v1_1.item({
    id: '5284ebc52504590000003f4a'
}, function (err, item) {
    // ...
});

Get Brand By ID

// GET https://api.nutritionix.com/v1_1/brand/51db37c3176fe9790a8991f6
nutritionix.v1_1.brand({
    id: '51db37c3176fe9790a8991f6'
}, function (err, brand){
    // ...
});

Standard Search

// GET https://api.nutritionix.com/v1_1/search/mcdonalds?results=0:1
nutritionix.v1_1.search.standard({
    phrase: 'mcdonalds',
    results: '0:1'
}, function (err, results){
    // ...
});

NXQL Advanced Search

// POST https://api.nutritionix.com/v1_1/search -d DATA
nutritionix.v1_1.search.advanced({
    fields: ['item_name','brand_name'],
    query: 'mcdonalds',
    offset:0,
    limit:1
}, function (err, results){
    // ...
});

Brand Search

// GET https://api.nutritionix.com/v1_1/brand/search?query=just+salad&auto=true&type=1&min_score=1
nutritionix.v1_1.search.brand({
    query:'just salad',
    auto:true,
    type:1,
    min_score:1
}, function (err, results){
    // ...
});

Special thanks

Thank you to picsoung for allowing us to take over the npm package and inspiring us to create an official nodejs client.