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Dough Hydration Calculator API

cooking 1 credits / call v2026-04-22

Calculate dough hydration, required water, or a simple baker's percentage recipe.

Use this endpoint to add Dough Hydration Calculator to your app, site, workflow, or agent without rebuilding formulas, validation, examples, and docs.

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What this saves

Skip a custom implementation, validation rules, examples, OpenAPI shape, billing checks, and support copy for this utility.

Where it fits

Product forms, calculator pages, finance content, education flows, support tools, automations, and agent actions.

How to evaluate

Inspect the required fields, try the hosted playground, then copy cURL, Python, or Node code into your integration.

Endpoint

POST https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/dough-hydration-calculator/run

Request body

Field Type Req.
mode
hydration | water | recipe
str
flour_weight float
water_weight float | None
target_hydration float
salt_percent float
yeast_percent float
precision int

Cost & access

  • 1 credit per successful call.
  • Starts on: Free.
  • Max payload: 65536 bytes.
  • Privacy mode: hash_only
  • Available on: free, starter, pro, business, scale

Response envelope

{
  "request_id": "01K...",
  "tool": "dough-hydration-calculator",
  "tool_version": "2026-04-22",
  "credits_used": 1,
  "result": { ... }
}

Try it

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hydration | water | recipe

Code examples

curl -X POST https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/dough-hydration-calculator/run \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer mwt_live_YOUR_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"mode":"recipe","flour_weight":500,"target_hydration":70,"salt_percent":2,"yeast_percent":1,"precision":2}'
import requests

resp = requests.post(
    'https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/dough-hydration-calculator/run',
    headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer mwt_live_YOUR_KEY'},
    json={'mode': 'recipe', 'flour_weight': 500, 'target_hydration': 70, 'salt_percent': 2, 'yeast_percent': 1, 'precision': 2},
)
resp.raise_for_status()
print(resp.json())
const resp = await fetch(
  'https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/dough-hydration-calculator/run',
  {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      'Authorization': 'Bearer mwt_live_YOUR_KEY',
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({"mode":"recipe","flour_weight":500,"target_hydration":70,"salt_percent":2,"yeast_percent":1,"precision":2}),
  }
);
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);
<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/dough-hydration-calculator/run');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        'Authorization: Bearer mwt_live_YOUR_KEY',
        'Content-Type: application/json',
    ],
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'mode' => 'recipe',
    'flour_weight' => 500,
    'target_hydration' => 70,
    'salt_percent' => 2,
    'yeast_percent' => 1,
    'precision' => 2
]),
]);
$resp = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print_r(json_decode($resp, true));
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
require 'uri'

uri = URI('https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/dough-hydration-calculator/run')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = (uri.scheme == 'https')

req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
req['Authorization'] = 'Bearer mwt_live_YOUR_KEY'
req['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
req.body = {
  'mode' => 'recipe',
  'flour_weight' => 500,
  'target_hydration' => 70,
  'salt_percent' => 2,
  'yeast_percent' => 1,
  'precision' => 2
}.to_json

resp = http.request(req)
puts JSON.parse(resp.body).inspect
package main

import (
  "bytes"
  "encoding/json"
  "fmt"
  "io"
  "net/http"
)

func main() {
  body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]interface{}{
    "mode": "recipe",
    "flour_weight": 500,
    "target_hydration": 70,
    "salt_percent": 2,
    "yeast_percent": 1,
    "precision": 2,
  })
  req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/dough-hydration-calculator/run", bytes.NewReader(body))
  req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer mwt_live_YOUR_KEY")
  req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

  resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
  if err != nil { panic(err) }
  defer resp.Body.Close()
  out, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
  fmt.Println(string(out))
}
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.*;

var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
var req = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/dough-hydration-calculator/run"))
    .header("Authorization", "Bearer mwt_live_YOUR_KEY")
    .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
    .POST(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString("{\"mode\":\"recipe\",\"flour_weight\":500,\"target_hydration\":70,\"salt_percent\":2,\"yeast_percent\":1,\"precision\":2}"))
    .build();

var resp = client.send(req, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
System.out.println(resp.body());

How to call Dough Hydration Calculator

  1. 1 Get an API key
    Get an API key. Sign up free for a bearer token. 1,000 credits/month, no card.
  2. 2 Assemble the JSON body
    Required fields: . See the Request body table below for the full schema.
  3. 3 POST to https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/dough-hydration-calculator/run
    Headers: Authorization: Bearer <key> and Content-Type: application/json. Copy-paste snippets in 7 languages are under Code examples.
  4. 4 Parse the response
    Envelope: {request_id, tool, tool_version, credits_used, result}. The typed output lives in result.

Frequently asked

What does the Dough Hydration Calculator API do?

Calculate dough hydration, required water, or a simple baker's percentage recipe. Use it to add this utility without rebuilding formulas, validation, examples, and documentation.

How much does one call to Dough Hydration Calculator cost?

1 credit per successful call. Failed calls (validation errors, 5xx) don't bill.

What parameters does the Dough Hydration Calculator API require?

Required fields: (none). Full schema at /v1/openapi.json.

Is the Dough Hydration Calculator API deterministic?

Yes — same input, same output, forever. Tool version 2026-04-22; output shape is stable within a major version.

Can an AI agent call the Dough Hydration Calculator API?

Yes. Connect to https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/mcp over the Model Context Protocol. The agent discovers `dough-hydration-calculator` with its JSON Schema automatically, so the model can plan while MiniWebtool handles the exact tool result.

What format does the API return?

JSON with a stable envelope: `{request_id, tool, tool_version, credits_used, result}`. Errors are RFC 7807 `application/problem+json`.

Use from an AI agent

Every endpoint on this site is also exposed via the Model Context Protocol at https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/mcp. Claude, Cursor, and any MCP-capable agent can discover this tool (dough-hydration-calculator) and its JSON Schema automatically — no client codegen.

# List tools the agent can call
curl -s https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}' \
 | jq '.result.tools[] | select(.name=="dough-hydration-calculator")'

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