Save recipes, plan a week of meals, generate a shopping list. The tool everyone builds in Notion and then abandons. Actually useful when the shopping list is one click away.
Every operation in Curator is available through a JSON REST API. No SDK required — use curl, fetch, or any HTTP client.
GET /api/recipes — list all recipes with optional search and filter query parametersPOST /api/recipes — create a new recipe recordGET /api/recipes/{id} — retrieve a single recipe by IDPUT /api/recipes/{id} — update an existing recipeDELETE /api/recipes/{id} — remove a recipeGET /api/stats — aggregated statisticsGET /api/health — health check endpoint for monitoringSaaS tools hold your data hostage. Export formats are incomplete, migrations are painful, and pricing changes whenever the vendor feels like it. Curator stores everything in SQLite on your own server. Your data is a file you control, back up, and query directly.
Download the binary and run it. Curator starts serving immediately with a dashboard at localhost and a REST API for automation. No cloud account, no API keys to provision, no monthly invoice. Your data lives in a SQLite file you can back up, move, or query directly.
Point curl at /api/recipes to interact with Curator programmatically. The API follows predictable REST conventions: GET to list or fetch, POST to create, PUT to update, DELETE to remove. The response schema matches the internal data model exactly, so what you see in the dashboard is what the API returns.
GET /api/recipes — List all recipes. Supports ?q=keyword for searchPOST /api/recipes — Create a new recipe. Send JSON with at least titleGET /api/recipes/{id} — Fetch one recipe by IDPUT /api/recipes/{id} — Update fields on an existing recipeDELETE /api/recipes/{id} — Remove a recipeGET /api/stats — Returns total countGET /api/health — Returns {"status":"ok"} for uptime monitoringSelf-hosted recipe and meal planner. Self-hosted on your infrastructure. Your data never leaves your server.
curl -fsSL https://stockyard.dev/install.sh | sh -s -- --tool curator
PORT=9940 ./curator
http://localhost:9940
Single binary. Embedded SQLite. No Docker. No database. No dependencies.
Your license key arrives by email within 5 minutes of checkout. Set it as an environment variable and restart the binary.
export CURATOR_LICENSE_KEY=stockyard_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ./curator
No cloud connectivity required. The binary validates the key offline with Ed25519 signatures.