RErewritelifestyle
Food Log

Search own food history + favourites, falling back to the FatSecret/AI catalog when needed

Trigram-similarity search over the user's own logged food_logs history and favorite meals, grouped by source and capped at 5 each — always available, no AI, no subscription/quota gate. Omitting sources runs all three legs (history, favourites, catalog) — the intended default. The catalog leg (AI/FatSecret pipeline) being enabled does NOT mean it runs: it only actually executes when history/favourites did NOT already return a confident match (a strong history similarity score, or any favourite hit) OR the query names a specific measured amount (e.g. "200g chicken", "12 oz steak") that a local logged row can't answer precisely; otherwise it is skipped for free and fatsecretCatalogSkipped: true is returned instead. When it does run, it is manually quota-checked and degrades to fatsecretCatalog: null, fatsecretCatalogError: "rate_limited" | "forbidden" | "unavailable" instead of failing the whole request when the user has no AI access left. Pass an explicit sources subset omitting "catalog" (e.g. sources=history,favourites) only to hard-guarantee zero AI quota spend for a call.

get/api/food-log/quick-add-search

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.rewritelifestyle.ai (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
  • URL
    https://api.rewritelifestyle.ai/api/food-log/quick-add-search
  • Auth
    HTTP bearer

Query parameters

qstring required
Example:chicken

Trigram-similarity match against the user's own logged food history and favourites.

sourcesstring[]

Comma-separated: history, favourites, catalog. Omitted = all three (the default). Enabling catalog does not force it to run — see the endpoint description.

timezonestring
Example:America/New_York

IANA timezone, used only by the catalog leg (region resolution) when requested.

Headers

x-timezonestring required

Response

unknown required

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "query": "chicken",
  "history": [
    {
      "id": 4821,
      "name": "Chicken Breast, Grilled",
      "calories": 140,
      "protein": 26,
      "carbs": 0,
      "fat": 3,
      "serving_size": "3 oz",
      "food_id": "9876",
      "serving_id": "57972",
      "quantity": 1,
      "unit": "each",
      "last_logged_at": "2026-07-30"
    }
  ],
  "favourites": [],
  "fatsecretCatalogSkipped": true
}

Changes

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