# Saylor Innovations Data Desk – Recipe Search

> Saylor Innovations Data Desk – Recipe Search is a paid API for AI agents from saylorinnovations.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-28).

Search for recipes by dish name, returning cuisine, category, full ingredient list with measures, cooking instructions, and a video link sourced from TheMealDB.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/food/recipe?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-28
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-data-desk-recipe-search-cebcf252
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_bcPo7F8b20ZwWrUFw5bdG

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability saylor-innovations-data-desk-recipe-search-cebcf252
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the full recipe for pad thai — I need the ingredient list with measurements and step-by-step cooking instructions?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, detailed recipe data — including ingredients with measures, cooking steps, and a video link — for a specific named dish. Prefer it over general web search when you want machine-readable recipe JSON ready for further processing or display. It is particularly useful when the underlying TheMealDB data coverage is sufficient (common international dishes).

## Known failure modes

- No recipes found for unrecognized or misspelled dish names — returns empty recipes array
- Missing or malformed 'q' query parameter results in an error response
- Upstream TheMealDB unavailability may cause failures or incomplete data
- Obscure regional dish names may return zero results

## How this service works

Recipe search by dish name - cuisine, category, full ingredient list with measures, cooking instructions and video link from TheMealDB

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the interpreted query string, a source attribution to TheMealDB, a count of matching recipes, and an array of recipe objects each with cuisine type, category, full ingredient list with measures, step-by-step cooking instructions, and a video link.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Dish name, e.g. arrabiata, lasagne, pad thai"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "query",
      "recipes"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "count": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Number of items returned"
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "The query as the server interpreted it"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Data source the values come from"
      },
      "recipes": {
       "type": "array"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-data-desk-recipe-search-cebcf252/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from saylorinnovations.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/saylorinnovations.com/llms.txt)