Introduction
The world's most over-engineered cheese delivery platform. We took a perfectly good cheese shop and added REST endpoints, OAuth2, webhooks, and a 47-page OpenAPI spec. You're welcome.
Every cheese marketplace deserves an API with better documentation than most startups have product. The Cheese Store API gives you programmatic access to over 200 artisanal cheeses from 15 countries, complete with tasting notes, pairing suggestions, and real-time inventory. Because if you're going to automate cheese, you should do it properly.
How it works
The Cheese Store API is a standard REST API. Authenticate with your API key, make requests, receive cheese data. We considered GraphQL but decided life is too short for schema stitching when you could be eating Gruyère.
curl -X GET 'https://cheesy.sourcey.com/v2/cheeses?country=france&texture=soft' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer your-api-key'{
"items": [
{
"id": "brie-de-meaux",
"name": "Brie de Meaux",
"origin": "Île-de-France",
"milk": "cow",
"texture": "soft",
"aged_weeks": 8,
"tasting_notes": "Earthy, mushroomy, with a hint of ammonia that says 'I'm fancy'"
}
],
"total": 47,
"hasMore": true
}No SDK required. Any HTTP client will do. Even wget, if you're feeling nostalgic.
What you can do
Browse the cheese catalog
Search and filter 200+ artisanal cheeses by origin, milk type, texture, aging, and whether they'll clear a room. Full-text search across tasting notes included.
Place orders
Create orders with temperature-controlled shipping, track deliveries in real-time, and set up recurring subscriptions. Because one wheel of Comté is never enough.
Manage customers
Customer accounts with OAuth2 login, preference tracking, allergy management, and purchase history. We remember their favourite cheeses so you don't have to.
Inventory & webhooks
Real-time stock levels across all warehouses. Get webhook notifications when seasonal cheeses return; nobody should miss Vacherin Mont d'Or season.
Why the Cheese Store API
Curated by actual fromagers, not algorithms
Every cheese in our catalog is hand-selected by our team of certified fromagers who visit producers, taste batches, and reject anything that doesn't meet the bar. We've turned down entire shipments of Camembert because the rind wasn't wrinkly enough. Our API reflects that obsession; every cheese object includes origin verification, producer notes, and seasonal availability.
Real-time inventory (cheese waits for no one)
Artisanal cheese is seasonal, hand-made, and sometimes temperamental. A wheel of Époisses has a shelf life measured in weeks, not months. Our API provides real-time stock levels across all temperature-controlled warehouses, so you never sell something that's already been eaten by the warehouse team during quality control.
Built for developers who appreciate the finer things
Clean REST endpoints, comprehensive OpenAPI 3.1 spec, predictable error codes, idempotent operations, cursor-based pagination. We eat our own dogfood; our own storefront runs on the exact same API you use. If something's broken, we find out before you do (usually while trying to order lunch).
Cheese expertise in every response
Every cheese object includes tasting notes, texture profiles, milk source, aging duration, region of origin, optimal serving temperature, and suggested pairings. It's like having a cheesemonger in your JSON payload. We even include a stinkiness_rating field (1-10 scale, scientifically calibrated).
Get started
Get your API key
Sign up at cheesy.sourcey.com/developers and grab your API key from the dashboard. Free tier gets you 100 requests/hour, which is roughly 100 more cheeses than most people can eat in an hour.
Browse the catalog
Hit GET /v2/cheeses to explore. Try filtering with ?country=switzerland&aged_weeks_min=12 to find a properly aged Gruyère. Each response includes tasting notes, so you can sound knowledgeable at dinner parties.
Place a test order
Use POST /v2/orders in sandbox mode. No real cheese will ship (unfortunately), but you'll see the full order lifecycle: placed → confirmed → shipped → delivered → presumably eaten.
Set up webhooks
Configure POST /v2/webhooks to get notified about order status changes, low stock alerts, and seasonal cheese availability. Never miss the return of Vacherin Mont d'Or again.
Go live
Switch to your production API key and start shipping cheese. Our support team includes a certified cheesemonger available for pairing consultations and API debugging, in that order of priority.