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mealserver

D-C2211/mealserver

A Python-based MCP server for accessing TheMealDB API, providing recipe search, random recommendations, and queries by category/area/ingredient, allowing AI assistants to obtain cooking information through natural language interaction.

Install

Client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "server": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "C:\\mcp\\mealserver",
        "run",
        "mealserver.py"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Environment variables

MEALDB_API_KEYMCP_SERVER_HOSTMCP_SERVER_API_KEY
Author
@D-C2211
Category
Health & Wellness, Education & Learning
Updated
Oct 6, 2026

Features

  • Get meals by letter, name, ingredient, category, or area

  • Get random meals

  • Save ingredients to a file for shopping lists

  • Access meal categories (dessert, seafood, vegetarian, etc.)

  • Access cuisine areas/regions (Italian, Mexican, Indian, etc.)

  • Access common ingredients database (575+ ingredients)

  • Access meals with the help of some prompts (pre-defined templates to assist more natural language requests)

Tools (8)

  • get_meal_by_letter

  • get_meal_by_name

  • get_random_meal

  • get_meal_by_ingredient

  • get_meal_by_multiple_ingredients

  • get_meal_by_category

  • get_meal_by_area

  • save_ingredients_to_file

Details on this page are taken from the project's README. Open README

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