Open Food Facts MCP Server

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Open Food Facts runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 47 installs a week from npm. Last commit 10 Sep 2026.

Search and contribute to the Open Food Facts database.

Installs per day peak 191 · avg 23 · -25% w/w

a month agotoday

Installs / week

npm · openfoodfacts-mcp

Stars

1 open issues

10 Sep 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

MIT

License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Open Food Facts every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add openfoodfacts-mcp -- npx -y openfoodfacts-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openfoodfacts-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "openfoodfacts-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.openfoodfacts-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "openfoodfacts-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openfoodfacts-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "openfoodfacts-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openfoodfacts-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "openfoodfacts-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: MCP_TRANSPORT (Transport type.), OFF_USER_AGENT (User-Agent string in format 'AppName/Version (email)'. Required by the Open Food Facts API.), OFF_USER_ID (Open Food Facts user ID (optional, needed for write operations).), OFF_PASSWORD (Open Food Facts password (optional, needed for write operations).), OFF_COUNTRY (Country subdomain (default: 'world').). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Open Food Facts — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Open Food Facts?

Open Food Facts runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package openfoodfacts-mcp was installed 47 times last week.

How do I connect Open Food Facts?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls openfoodfacts-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Open Food Facts?

The npm package openfoodfacts-mcp was installed 47 times in the last week. Week over week that is -25%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Open Food Facts open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 3 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.