Product Opener is the server software for Open Food Facts and Open Beauty Facts. It is released under the AGPL license and is being developed in Perl, HTML and JavaScript as Free and Open-Source Software.

It works together with Robotoff, Open Food Facts' AI system (in Python, which can also be installed locally) and the Open Food Facts apps (which can work with your local instance after enabling dev mode)

Open Food Facts is a database of food products with ingredients, allergens, nutritional facts and all the tidbits of information that is available on various product labels.

Open Food Facts is a non-profit association of volunteers. 25.000+ contributors like you have added 1.7 million + products from 150 countries using our Android, iPhone or Windows Phone app or their camera to scan barcodes and upload pictures of products and their labels.

Data about food is of public interest and has to be open (i.e available to everyone). The complete database is published as open data and can be reused by anyone and for any use. Check-out the cool reuses or make your own!

• https://world.openfoodfacts.org

• Top issues
• P1 problems
• P1 candidates
• Please add roadmaps here

• Join us on Slack at https://openfoodfacts.slack.com/ in the channels: #api, #productopener, #dev.

• API Documentation

• NEW API Documentation (WIP) (source)

• Developer documentation:

  • Quick start guide (Docker)
  • Developer guide (Docker)
  • Developer guide (Gitpod)
  • Configuration [TBA]
  • Dependencies [TBA]
  • Database configuration [TBA]
  • How to run tests [TBA]
  • Perl modules documentation (POD)

Note: documentation follows the Diátaxis Framework

If you're new to Open-Source, we recommend you to check out our Contributing Guidelines. Feel free to fork the project and send us a pull request.

• Writing tests
• Code review
• Other guidelines
• Please add new features to the CHANGELOG.md file before or after merge to make testing easier

Have a bug or a feature request? Please search for existing and closed issues. If your problem or idea is not addressed yet, please open a new issue. You can ask directly in the discussion room if you're not sure

You can help translate the Open Food Facts web version and the app at : https://translate.openfoodfacts.org/ (no technical knowledge required, takes a minute to signup)

We have templatized Product Opener, we use Gulp and NPM, but you'll need to run the Product Opener docker to be able to see the result (see the How do I get set up? section). In particular, you can help with issues on the new design.

• Join our discussion room at https://slack.openfoodfacts.org/ Make sure to join the #productopener and #productopener-alerts channels. Stéphane, Pierre, Charles or Hangy will be around to help you get started.

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.

Thank you to all our backers! 🙏 [Become a backer]

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Open Food Facts Personal Search project was funded through the NGI0 Discovery Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme.