aid: sidechef
name: SideChef
description: >-
  SideChef is a food-technology company that licenses recipe content, shoppable-commerce
  and recipe-AI infrastructure to food brands, grocery retailers, food media publishers and
  kitchen-appliance makers. Its consumer cooking platform doubles as a B2B platform whose
  partner-facing surface is delivered three ways: embeddable JavaScript components (the
  Shoppable Recipe Button, Recipe Recommendation Row, RecipeAdapt personalization widget
  and an on-site recipe chat), a hosted Recipe Management System, and partner APIs such as
  the Recipe Recommendation API and RecipeAdapt. The underlying v3 REST surface is live at
  www.sidechef.com and the widget-delivery host www.scgrocery.net, but it is authenticated
  per partner and SideChef publishes no OpenAPI, developer portal or public API reference;
  the only public technical documentation is the Shoppable Button integration guide, and
  API access runs through a contact-sales motion.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63b6aab1b5182398d5ad85ad/67bd6fdbf07c15c096431062_Bannerimg-1.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sidechef/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-27'
modified: '2026-08-27'
tags:
- Company
- Food
- Recipes
- Retail
- Grocery
- Commerce
- Advertising
- Content
- Widgets
- Artificial Intelligence
- Nutrition
- Media
apis:
- aid: sidechef:widget-api
  name: SideChef Widget API (v3)
  description: >-
    The live REST surface behind SideChef's embeddable partner widgets. Observed endpoints
    include /v3/widget/recipes/ (shoppable recipe lookup and cart hand-off) and
    /v3/widget/events/ (widget telemetry). Every request is authenticated per partner; an
    unauthenticated call returns HTTP 401 with a JSON error envelope. SideChef publishes no
    OpenAPI, no public reference and no developer portal for this surface.
  humanURL: https://business.sidechef.com/sb-documentation
  baseURL: https://www.sidechef.com/v3/
  tags:
  - Recipes
  - Commerce
  - Grocery
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/sidechef-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/sidechef-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/sidechef-conventions.yml
- aid: sidechef:shoppable-button
  name: SideChef Shoppable Button
  description: >-
    A partner-embeddable JavaScript component that turns a recipe ingredient list on a
    partner site into a multi-retailer add-to-cart experience (Walmart, Target, Amazon
    Fresh, Instacart). Integration is declarative via data-* attributes on a host element,
    themed with CSS custom properties, and instrumented with a postMessage event stream.
    Version 2 is current; version 1 was deprecated on 2025-12-24.
  humanURL: https://business.sidechef.com/sb-documentation
  baseURL: https://www.scgrocery.net/widget/v2/
  tags:
  - Widgets
  - Commerce
  - Grocery
  properties:
  - type: Components
    url: components/sidechef-components.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/sidechef-lifecycle.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.sidechef.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.sidechef.com/business/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://business.sidechef.com/sb-documentation
- type: APIReference
  url: https://business.sidechef.com/sb-documentation
- type: Support
  url: https://www.sidechef.com/business/contact-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.sidechef.com/business/insights
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.sidechef.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.sidechef.com/privacy-policy/
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/sidechef-lifecycle.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/sidechef-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/sidechef-changelog.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/sidechef-components.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/sidechef-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/sidechef-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/sidechef-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/sidechef-conformance.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/sidechef-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/sidechef-rate-limits.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/sidechef-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/sidechef-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sidechef-domain-security.yml
x-api-base-note: >-
  repair-api-bases.py reports `disagreement` because the two API entries name two different
  registrable hosts. This is correct and deliberate, not a defect: the v3 REST surface is
  served from SideChef's primary domain (www.sidechef.com/v3/, confirmed by a live 401 JSON
  response), while the Shoppable Button bundle is served from www.scgrocery.net, SideChef's
  own widget-delivery domain named as the loader host in SideChef's published integration
  documentation. Both bases were read from SideChef's own docs and probes; neither was
  guessed from a domain.
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-27'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 14
  pass: local-v1