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Open Food Facts

Better food choices for your health & the planet

Open Food Facts is the "Wikipedia of food". Our community collects information about all the food products in the world, using mobile phones to help people make better choices for themselves and the planet, and to transform the whole food system along the way. We do so using mobile crowdsourcing, community involvement and machine learning,

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Project ideas

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History

In GSoC since 2018, 4 years. Projects per year: '18: 2, '22: 4, '25: 4, '26: 3.

On GitHub

75 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Python (22), JavaScript (7), HTML (6), TypeScript (6), Java (3), Ruby (3).

Links and channels

Website: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/discover
Ideas page: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/GSOC/2026_ideas_list
Contributor guide: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/google-summer-of-code
Source code: https://github.com/openfoodfacts
Chat: https://slack.openfoodfacts.org
Email: contact@openfoodfacts.org

go deeper in your terminal

git-into-gsoc org "Open Food Facts" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "Open Food Facts"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "Open Food Facts"

or ask your assistant:
"Which Open Food Facts repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.