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== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==
'''NOTE''': We're now extracting search to [[Search-a-licious]], which has an OpenAPI documentation, an Elastic-Search backend and everything you'd expect from a modern search API.
Version 1 of the Open Food Facts search API is outdated and hacky (it was built on top of the OFF web site search form and is unnecessarily convoluted) and does not support some of the requirements for the [[Project:Personalized_Search]] (in particular being able to retrieve a given set of products using their barcodes).
Version 1 of the Open Food Facts search API is outdated and hacky (it was built on top of the OFF web site search form and is unnecessarily convoluted) and does not support some of the requirements for the [[Project:Personalized_Search]] (in particular being able to retrieve a given set of products using their barcodes).