Please give to our 2026 Fundraiser
Your donations fund the day-to-day operations of our non-profit association:
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keeping our database open & available to all,
- technical infrastructure (website/mobile app) & a small permanent team
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remain independent of the food industry,
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engage a community of committed citizens,
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support the advancement of public health research.
Contribute to Open Pet Food Facts
All you need is a scan-do attitude! :-)
Can we make the pet food industry more open and transparent? Yes we scan!
Everyone can contribute
Be part of our collaborative, free and open database of pet food products from around the world!
Open Pet Food Facts is a non-profit project made entirely by volunteers, we do need you.
Add products
Use the Open Food Facts app for Android or iPhone to easily scan the barcode of pet food products from your home or local pet stores and upload pictures of their labels.
The mobile apps have been merged, so you can now scan pet food, human food, cosmetics, and other products from the same Open Food Facts app!
No smartphone? No problem: you can also use your camera to add products directly on the web site.
Tell the world
Do you like Open Pet Food Facts? Tell others about it!
You can present the project to your family and friends, show them how to install the app and contribute, write a blog post, share Open Pet Food Facts on social media...
And present it live! We have presented Open Pet Food Facts to very different audiences in very different settings, and we always get a very enthusiastic response when we show what can be done when the data for pet food products is open. We have lots of presentation materials (slides etc.) that you can adapt or present as-is.
Make it local
You can help to translate the site and mobile app in your language, and to translate presentations, announcements etc.
We can work together to support and add logos for local pet food brands and labels.
Start or join a local contributors community: add local pet food products, recruit friends, present the project in local meetups and conferences etc.
Expert help needed
Developing Open Pet Food Facts also requires specialized knowledge and expertise in many different areas:
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Project management
We have tons of ideas and you probably have even more, but it is quite a challenge to prioritize them, to build a roadmap, and to manage projects when every participant is a volunteer with often limited time available.
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Design
We need help to build a better user experience on the Open Pet Food Facts web site and mobile app, to improve their design, to create impactful presentation materials etc.
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Development
We have a lot of development work to do: on the Open Pet Food Facts backend (Perl and MongoDB), API (JSON), web site (HTML5, JS, Foundation), and the mobile app. Our code is on GitHub.
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Community building
We need to build local communities in all countries and at the same time unite them globally.
It is very difficult to bootstrap a local community in a country without living there, so your help to find the first very motivated participants is essential. Are you one of them?
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Communication
We are not sure what to write here, could you help?
More seriously, there are lot of cool things that users, contributors and reusers do with Open Pet Food Facts, it would be great to get more people to know about it. In particular, we need help for public and media relations.
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Special projects
There are lots of interesting and original applications of pet food open data that we could work on with veterinarians, pet nutritionists, pet food manufacturers, researchers, universities, schools, animal welfare NGOs etc. Maybe you already have ideas? If you do, please help us to push them forward.
Let's talk!
A lot of ideas, energy and enthusiasm are shared in our contributors community, join us!
Here are some places where you can meet other contributors, talk to them and work with them:
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Slack
Slack is the best way to interact and collaborate with other contributors, developers and reusers. It's a discussion forum you can access from your browser or your phone. It completely changed how we work together. Please try it, click on the button below to get invited to our Slack.
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Forum
You can discuss with the community on our forum. It's a great place to ask questions, share ideas about pet nutrition, and collaborate on projects.
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Wiki
We also have a wiki that we use to collaboratively document Open Pet Food Facts and its sub-projects. We also use the wiki to manage translations and to work on the taxonomies / hierarchies of categories, labels etc.
There are many more ways to contribute to Open Pet Food Facts, please join us on Slack (in the #openpetfoodfacts channel) and let's start the discussion!