What's on the menu?
NYPL human-transcribed historical menu collection
- Authentication
- API Key
- HTTPS
- No
- CORS
- Unknown
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Data source
- public-apis + marcelscruz
- Documentation / URL
- http://nypl.github.io/menus-api/
Overview
What’s on the menu? provides NYPL menu data — keyless.
⚠️ Status (verified 2026-08): a guessed path returned HTTP 404 (HTML) — the route paths differ. Check the docs for valid routes.
What it provides
curl "https://menus.nypl.org/api/menus"Notes
- Historical menus.
- Route paths per the docs.
FAQ
Is What’s on the menu? free? Yes — free and keyless.
Why 404? Our 2026-08 guess path was wrong (verified) — check the docs.
What does it return? Menu data.
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