# Afoona (אפונה) - Israeli Recipe Search Engine

> Afoona is the largest Israeli recipe search engine with 33,000+ recipes from 12 leading Israeli food websites. Users can search by recipe name, ingredients they have at home, or browse by category and holiday.

## API

The search API is publicly accessible:

- Search recipes: `GET https://afoona.com/api/search?q={query}&page=0`
- Search by ingredients: `GET https://afoona.com/api/search?inc={ingredient1},{ingredient2}`
- Exclude ingredients: `GET https://afoona.com/api/search?exc={ingredient}`
- Get site info & holidays: `GET https://afoona.com/api/sites`
- Get single recipe: `GET https://afoona.com/api/recipe?id={id}`

### Response format

Recipes contain: `i` (id), `t` (title), `l` (source URL), `g` (ingredients, semicolon-separated), `s` (source site), `cat` (category), `a` (description), `k` (keywords).

## Sources

Recipes are indexed from: mako, Foodis, Foody, 2Eat, Walla, Kipa, Pirge, Rotev, Sugat, Cooks, 10 דקות, RecipeKing.

## Categories

מנות אחרונות, עוגות ועוגיות, סלטים, דגים ומאכלי ים, מנות ראשונות, לחמים ומאפים, תוספות, מנות עיקריות, מרקים, משקאות, פשטידות, מטבלים וממרחים, צמחוני, ממולאים, פסטות, בריאות, ללא גלוטן.

## Holiday recipes

The system detects Hebrew calendar holidays and highlights relevant recipes: ראש השנה, סוכות, חנוכה, פורים, פסח, שבועות.

## Language

Primary language is Hebrew (he-IL). Recipe titles, ingredients, and categories are in Hebrew.