Recipes

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Meal recipes searchable by name, ingredient, or category from TheMealDB

4 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

search_meals required: query

Search meals by name

Parameters
Name Type Description
query req string Meal name to search
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get_meal required: id

Get full meal recipe by ID

Parameters
Name Type Description
id req string Meal ID
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random_meal

Get a random meal recipe

No parameters required.

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meals_by_ingredient required: ingredient

Find meals that use a specific ingredient

Parameters
Name Type Description
ingredient req string Ingredient name (e.g., chicken, rice)
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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/recipes/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/recipes/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_meals","arguments":{"query": "hello"}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search_meals", {"query":"example"});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("meal recipes searchable by name, ingredient, or category from themealdb");