Technical Overview
Note: Be sure to read through our API overview before you begin development.
The MenuMania API is REST (Representational State Transfer) API and this API allows you to:
- retrieve restaurant, review and rating information for a particular location.
- display reviews and information for a particular restaurant.
- track recent reviews for a particular restaurant.
- display pictures of highly rated local eating places
- determine a particular restaurant's review and rating information based on the phone number for that business.
The default output is XML (Extensible Markup Language) and also provide output in JSON (JavaScript Object Notation).
Common API Parameters
The following parameter must be included in all API requests.
Required
| Name | Data Type | Required / Optional | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMWSID | string | required | The "MenuMania Web Service ID" (mmwsid) that was provided when access to the MenuMania API was granted. |
Optional
| Name | Data Type | Required / Optional | Description | Potential Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| output | string | optional | Enables response to be requested in different formats. If this parameter is not specified then XML will be used as the default output format. | "xml" - Extensible Markup Language. "json" - JavaScript Object Notation. |