Menu API from the New York Public Library
Dine in history.
This API is best for discovering NYC restaurant offerings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Menu API from the New York Public Library offers a unique method of quickly uncovering details about the city's past and today's trends, plus access to hand-curated content from a vast library of historical information. Developers can use this API to build interactive applications, including applications related to food, restaurants, restaurants reviews, and history. The API itself provides powerful capabilities, supporting filtering, pagination, sorting, and query optimizations, allowing developers to extract and add their own custom data from other sources, as well as incorporating detailed analysis of menu items via menu/item analysis.
Key features
- Access to transcribed menu items & graphical images of 1200 NYC restaurant menus
- Searchable metadata & chronological menus of NYC restaurants active between 1851-1924
- API allows you to customize fields & filters to refine your results
Potential use cases
- Food & Menu Explorer: Create an interactive map of all the restaurants whose menus are available through the API, let the user explore the menus and get recommendations based on popular items, locations and budget.
- Historical Trends Visualization Tool: Visualize how restaurant menus have changed over time by showing the ingredients in dishes, prices or fads in certain areas.
- Menu Recipe Database: Build a searchable database of recipes that can be searched based on origin, cuisine, ingredients or time period.
The Menu API from the New York Public Library was key in helping me put together an interactive application about NYC's food history. With the powerful features and the ability to dig deep into historical menu data, I was able to create something truly unique and useful. Thank you for all the help!
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