# UK Food Hygiene Ratings (FSA) — leads & risk (`faceless-api/uk-food-hygiene-ratings`) Actor

Every UK food business with its official Food Hygiene Rating (0–5), sub-scores, type, area and inspection date. Filter by rating, area, business type or inspection date. Official FSA data, refreshed daily. Pay per result.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/faceless-api/uk-food-hygiene-ratings.md
- **Developed by:** [gio](https://apify.com/faceless-api) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 result (one record)s

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## UK Food Hygiene Ratings (FSA) — leads & risk

Every food business in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland with its **official Food Hygiene Rating** (0–5, or Pass / Improvement Required in Scotland), the three inspection sub-scores, business type, trading address and area, local authority, inspection date, and whether a new rating is pending. **~613,000 establishments, refreshed daily** from the Food Standards Agency's open-data file (Open Government Licence v3). Keyed by the stable FHRSID.

### What people use it for

- **Lead generation** — new openings ("awaiting inspection") and low ratings (0–2) by area for wholesalers, EPOS, pest control, cleaning and consultancy.
- **Supplier due diligence / onboarding** for food-delivery platforms and insurers.
- **Estate monitoring** for franchisors and multi-site operators.

### Output (one item per business)

`fhrs_id, business_name, business_type, address, postcode, outward_code, local_authority, local_authority_code, rating_value, scheme_type, rating_date, hygiene_score, structural_score, confidence_score, new_rating_pending, latitude, longitude`

### Pricing

Pay per result. Set **Maximum results** to control spend. Data comes from gankdat.com, which also offers a REST API, an MCP server for AI agents, and daily change feeds ("what changed since…"). Rating artwork (the sticker images) is not included; the FSA licenses that separately.

### Data posture

Business-level data only, as published by the FSA (private addresses are withheld at source). The operator's free-text "right to reply" is not included.

# Actor input Schema

## `rating_value` (type: `string`):

Exact rating to return: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, AwaitingInspection, Exempt, Pass (Scotland) or Improvement Required (Scotland). Leave empty for all.

## `business_type` (type: `string`):

e.g. Restaurant, Takeaway, Pub, Retailers, Hospitals, School, Mobile caterer

## `local_authority` (type: `string`):

e.g. Leeds, Cambridge City, Westminster

## `outward_code` (type: `string`):

e.g. LS1, SW1A, M1. Matches the start of the postcode.

## `rating_date_after` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD — only businesses inspected on or after this date (new ratings, recent changes).

## `new_rating_pending` (type: `boolean`):

A newer inspection result is awaiting publication.

## `q` (type: `string`):

Matches any text field (name, address, type, authority).

## `max_results` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many records (you are charged per result).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "rating_value": "",
  "new_rating_pending": false,
  "max_results": 1000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One item per record, as JSON (also downloadable as CSV/Excel from the dataset).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("faceless-api/uk-food-hygiene-ratings").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("faceless-api/uk-food-hygiene-ratings").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call faceless-api/uk-food-hygiene-ratings --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,faceless-api/uk-food-hygiene-ratings"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/F0sVyC6l1GLZ8gZvY/builds/ucSqBFn9Ic9tNMvzB/openapi.json