UK Food Hygiene Ratings (FHRS) Leads

Export UK food businesses from the official Food Standards Agency database as a clean, ready-to-use list of leads — no API key, no login, no anti-bot headaches.

What this gives you

One run can pull from many local authorities at once and hand you a single, deduplicated dataset (one row per business) with the fields that actually matter for follow-up:

Legal_Name, DBA_Name, License_ID, Full_Address, City, State, Zip_Code,
Phone_Clean, License_Status, Source, Source_URL, Scraped_At,
Business_Type, Rating_Value, Rating_Date, Rating_Key, New_Rating_Pending,
Hygiene_Score, Structural_Score, Confidence_In_Management, Scheme_Type,
Latitude, Longitude

Most scrapers for this dataset only let you target one council at a time. This one takes a list of authorities, so you can cover a region — or the whole country — in a single run without stitching results together.

Why it's different (honestly)

• Official government open data. Sourced from the UK Food Standards Agency FHRS database itself. No scraping HTML, no captchas, no proxies, no IP bans. It's a public API that expects reasonable rate limiting, and that's all we do.
• Keys are your real identifiers. License_ID is the actual FHRSID published by the source — not a hash we made up. Nothing is invented.
• Honest fields. Rating_Value/hygiene scores come straight from the source. License_Status is left empty on purpose: a hygiene rating is not a licence status, and we don't pretend it is.
• You control cost and coverage. Pick your authorities, pick how many pages per authority. More authorities = more rows per run.

Case uses

• Local-services prospecting — fresh, rated food businesses you can contact and score by hygiene.
• Delivery/marketplace onboarding — find takeaway and restaurant candidates per area, with address, phone and coordinates.
• Compliance/data background — a dependable, source-stable feed for dashboards and due-diligence checks.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
localAuthorityIds	string list	[]	The authorities to process in one run. Full list: https://api.ratings.food.gov.uk/Authorities/basic
localAuthorityId	integer	35	Legacy shortcut for a single authority
maxPagesPerAuthority	integer	5	Pages per authority (pageSize is fixed at 100 by the source)

Output

A dataset of JSON rows (one per establishment). In Apify you can download it as JSON, CSV or Excel directly from the run's dataset.

Limits (the source's rules)

• The FHRS API requires an authority filter — a call with no filter returns a clear 403. We respect that documented contract.
• pageSize stays at 100 (source-set); we page through it up to your maxPagesPerAuthority.
• Polite rate limiting between pages, with retry + backoff. No flooding.

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Built by Joshua Hernández Márquez. If you need a specific set of authorities or a recurring refresh, open an issue or reach out.