scan_barcode
Scan a product barcode
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Look up a product by barcode (Open Food Facts / Open Beauty Facts), match its ingredients against Clarity's database, return which ingredients are flagged for the given condition lens, AND flag any active FDA recall for the product (recall_flag + recalls[], sourced from FDA — verify via source_url). Anonymous calls are read-only: a local-mirror miss may query the public source but does not refresh Clarity's mirror or harvest tokens. An authenticated caller may opt into each bounded side effect with persist_mirror:true and harvest_crosswalk:true.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| barcode | string | yes | UPC/EAN barcode, 6-14 digits |
| lens | string | no | Condition lens |
| persist_mirror | boolean | no | Authenticated callers only: explicitly allow one bounded live-result mirror refresh. |
| harvest_crosswalk | boolean | no | Authenticated callers only: explicitly allow bounded unmatched-token coverage logging. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"barcode": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[0-9]{6,14}$",
"description": "UPC/EAN barcode, 6-14 digits"
},
"lens": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Condition lens",
"enum": [
"breastfeeding",
"lactation",
"pregnancy",
"histamine",
"mcas",
"rosacea",
"hs",
"allergy",
"all"
],
"default": "all"
},
"persist_mirror": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Authenticated callers only: explicitly allow one bounded live-result mirror refresh."
},
"harvest_crosswalk": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Authenticated callers only: explicitly allow bounded unmatched-token coverage logging."
}
},
"required": [
"barcode"
]
}