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Product Opener (Open Food Facts web server) documentation#

Welcome to the documentation of Product Opener, the web server at the heart of Open Food Facts project.

It also powers the sibling Open [Beauty|Pet Food|Products] Facts projects

  • If you want to use the API or are interested in the data, look at API documentation

The repository for the project is at https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/

Do not hesitate to contribute to this documentation, this is highly appreciated.

Documentation organization#

The documentation is split between API documentation (for re-users, third party developers) and Developer documentation (for contributors).

The documentation follows the Diátaxis framework.

Page titles should start with:

  • tutorial on - tutorials aimed at learning
  • how to… - how to guides to reach a specific goal
  • explain… - explanation to understand a topic
  • reference… - providing detailed information