Chipotle API endpoint
Use Crawlora's Chipotle Ingredients API to extract supported public Chipotle data as structured JSON. This page includes request parameters, cURL examples, response schema, error behavior, credit cost, and a Playground link for testing before integration.
/chipotle/ingredientsReturns Chipotle's raw-ingredient content pages -- sourcing story, marketing copy, imagery -- and the per-item recipe breakdown. ingredients[] has one entry per raw ingredient (Avocado, Yellow Onion, ...), each with its facts/sourcing copy and the menu_item_ids it appears in. ingredient_groups[] is the reverse view: one entry per recipe category (proteins, rice and beans, ...) listing each item's exact ingredient_keys, joinable against ingredients[].key for the human-readable name. Nothing else in this family exposes either ingredient content or recipe-level composition. Developers commonly use this endpoint for data enrichment, monitoring, research dashboards, internal automation, and agent-native workflows that need repeatable structured public web data. Authentication uses the documented Crawlora headers, and usage is metered with the credit cost shown on this page.
Request parameters are generated from the active endpoint catalog. Required values must be sent before Crawlora can call the upstream public web data source.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| channel | string | No | Ordering surface. One of web, web-mobile. Default web-mobile. Allowed values: web, web-mobile | ||
| region | string | No | Country catalog. One of US, CA. Default US. Allowed values: US, CA | ||
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/chipotle/ingredients?channel=web®ion=US" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.
Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Daily cap | Rate limit | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2,000 | 500 daily credits | 5/min | No overage |
| Starter | $9/mo | 20,000 | 5,000 daily credits | 15/min | $0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Growth | $29/mo | 100,000 | 25,000 daily credits | 45/min | $0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Pro | $79/mo | 400,000 | No daily cap | 120/min | $0.30/1,000 overage credits |
| Business | $199/mo | 1,200,000 | No daily cap | 300/min | $0.20/1,000 overage credits |
| Enterprise | $499/mo | 5,000,000 | No daily cap | 1,000/min | $0.12/1,000 overage credits |
This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.
Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.
| Status | Common failure case |
|---|---|
| 400 | Invalid input or missing required parameter |
| 429 | Plan or endpoint rate limit exceeded |
| 500 | Internal execution error |
| 502 | Upstream platform failed, returned unusable HTML, or served a challenge page that could not be resolved |
When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Too Many Requests | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"channel": "web-mobile",
"region": "US",
"ingredients": [
{
"key": "avoc",
"title": "Avocado",
"facts_title": "FACT",
"facts_subtitle": "Avocadabra",
"facts_description": "Avocados are the guac to our chips...",
"sub_description": "We use only Hass avocados because they're the creamiest...",
"thumbnail_url": "https://www.chipotle.com/content/dam/chipotle/menu/ingredients/avocado/grid/avocado.png",
"background_image_url": "https://www.chipotle.com/content/dam/chipotle/menu/ingredients/avocado/panel/avocado-desktop-2x1.jpg",
"menu_item_ids": [
"CMG-1003",
"CMG-1015",
"CMG-5301"
]
}
],
"count": 53,
"ingredient_groups": [
{
"title": "proteins",
"items": [
{
"item_id": "CMG-1",
"ingredient_keys": [
"bkpep",
"chic",
"cchil",
"cumi",
"vine",
"garl",
"oreg",
"salt",
"soil",
"wate"
]
}
]
}
],
"source_url": "https://services.chipotle.com/menu-metadata/v1/menu-metadata/ingredients?channel=web-mobile®ion=US",
"fetched_at": "2026-09-01T10:20:00Z"
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/chipotle.ingredientsResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | Code is the HTTP status code or a custom code used to indicate the result of the request @example 200 | |||
| data | chipotle.IngredientsResponse | No | ||||
| data.channel | string | No | web-mobile | |||
| data.count | integer | No | 53 | |||
| data.fetched_at | string | No | ||||
| data.ingredient_groups | array | No | ||||
| data.ingredient_groups[].items | array | No | ||||
| data.ingredient_groups[].items[].ingredient_keys | array | No | bkpep,chic,cchil | |||
| data.ingredient_groups[].items[].item_id | string | No | CMG-1 | |||
| data.ingredient_groups[].title | string | No | proteins | |||
| data.ingredients | array | No | ||||
| data.ingredients[].background_image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.ingredients[].background_image_url_mobile | string | No | ||||
| data.ingredients[].facts_description | string | No | ||||
| data.ingredients[].facts_subtitle | string | No | Avocadabra | |||
| data.ingredients[].facts_title | string | No | FACT | |||
| data.ingredients[].key | string | No | avoc | Key is the short code MenuMetadataItem.DietaryTags-style codes and IngredientGroupItem.IngredientKeys reference this ingredient by. | ||
| data.ingredients[].menu_item_ids | array | No | CMG-1003,CMG-1015 | MenuItemIDs are the items this ingredient appears in, joinable against /chipotle/menu or /chipotle/restaurant/menu. | ||
| data.ingredients[].sub_description | string | No | ||||
| data.ingredients[].thumbnail_url | string | No | ||||
| data.ingredients[].title | string | No | Avocado | |||
| data.region | string | No | US | |||
| data.source_url | string | No | ||||
| msg | unknown | No | Msg is the message that describes the result of the request @example "Request successful" |
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curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/chipotle/ingredients?channel=web®ion=US" \
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