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eat-api — Munich Student Canteen Menus

Static JSON API for Munich student canteen menus, prices, dish labels and opening hours, regenerated on a schedule and served as flat files from GitHub Pages. Two OpenAPI files below are one contract split by tag; both were re-titled on 2026-08-19 after refine-openapis had labelled them "eat-api calendar API" and conflated them with NavigaTUM.

eat-api — Munich Student Canteen Menus is one of 6 APIs that Technical University of Munich publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Dining, Campus, Open Data, Static API, and Studierendenwerk. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths, and defines 8 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2.1.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://tum-dev.github.io/eat-api/{language}.

4 operations 4 paths 8 schemas 4 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
2.1
Base URL
https://tum-dev.github.io/eat-api
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 4

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 4 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

menu 4

Get information about dish plans

GET
/{canteen_id}/{year}/{week}.json
Get a menu for the specified canteen, year and week
3 params → 200404
GET
/{canteen_id}/combined/combined.json
To get all menus for one specific canteen
1 param → 200404
GET
/all.json
To get all menus for all canteens
→ 200
GET
/all_ref.jsondeprecated
To get all menus that are not older than one day for all canteens
→ 200

Schemas 8

The contract defines 8 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Dish (4 properties), Price (3 properties), Week (3 properties), Prices (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Canteen
object
1 property
Week
object
All dishes for all days during one week
3 properties
Label
object
1 property
Day
object
All dishes for one day
2 properties
Price
object
3 properties
CanteenMenu
object
All dishes for a specific canteen
3 properties
Dish
object
Describes one dish
4 properties
Prices
object
3 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

tum-menu-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Technical University of Munich publishes across the network.

NavigaTUM
mediaTUM OAI-PMH Repository Interface
TUM Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 Metadata)
TUMonline (CAMPUSonline) — Course Catalog and Identity
Technical University of Munich Campus API
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