UK Food Business Data — FSA Hygiene Ratings & Addresses

Every restaurant, café, hotel, caterer, retailer and food manufacturer in the UK is registered with the Food Standards Agency and inspected. That register — around 600,000 businesses with addresses, categories and inspection dates — is public, and it is the best free source of UK hospitality and food-trade leads there is.

No API key · Official source · Pay only for delivered rows · Same schema across the series

What data do you get?

Field	Description
companyName	Trading name of the business
registrationNumber	FHRS ID
industry	FSA business type
industryCode	FSA business type ID
address	Full address
city	Town or city
postalCode	Postcode
hygieneRating	Rating value (0–5, or a Scottish pass/improvement-required value)
ratedOn	Date of the rating inspection
hygieneScore	Hygiene sub-score — lower is better
structuralScore	Structural sub-score
managementScore	Confidence-in-management sub-score
localAuthority	Local authority responsible
localAuthorityEmail	Local authority contact email
schemeType	FHRS (England, Wales, NI) or FHIS (Scotland)
isNewBusiness	Whether the business is awaiting its first inspection
latitude	Latitude
longitude	Longitude
sourceUrl	FSA rating page

Every row also carries query (what you asked for), scrapedAt (ISO timestamp) and, when a lookup fails, error explaining why.

Example output

{
  "country": "GB",
  "registry": "UK Food Standards Agency",
  "companyName": "Greggs",
  "registrationNumber": "214159",
  "industry": "Retailers - other",
  "industryCode": "4613",
  "address": "133 High Street, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN15 6EA",
  "city": "Scunthorpe",
  "postalCode": "DN15 6EA",
  "hygieneRating": "5",
  "ratedOn": "2024-03-11",
  "localAuthority": "North Lincolnshire",
  "schemeType": "FHRS",
  "sourceUrl": "https://ratings.food.gov.uk/business/214159"
}

Input

{
  "queries": ["Nando's","Greggs","Shoreditch"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 30,
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "includeRaw": false
}

Input	What it does
queries	Business names (Nando's), towns (Brighton) or postcodes (BN1 1AA). Postcodes and towns return every registered business in the area.
maxResultsPerQuery	Caps how many rows one query may produce.
maxConcurrency	How many queries run at once. Lower it if the source starts throttling.
includeRaw	Attaches the source's untouched record under raw, for fields this actor does not map.
requestDelayMs	Politeness delay between requests.
proxyConfiguration	Optional. The FSA API is open and rarely needs a proxy.

What people use it for

• Hospitality lead generation — every UK restaurant, café and pub with a verified address, filtered by town and type.
• Food supply-chain prospecting — filter to manufacturers, packers and distributors to find trade buyers.
• Franchise and estate mapping — search a brand name and get every branch with coordinates.

Notes and limits

• Scotland uses a different scheme (FHIS): the rating is Pass or Improvement Required rather than 0–5. schemeType tells them apart.
• Sub-scores are inverted — a lower hygiene score is better. That is the FSA's own convention, kept unchanged.
• A new business awaiting its first inspection carries isNewBusiness true and no rating.

Where the data comes from

The Food Standards Agency publishes the whole ratings register as a documented open API with no key. Source: UK Food Standards Agency ratings API

FAQ

Is this UK food business scraper free?

The data source is free and needs no API key — you pay only for the rows the run delivers ($0.003 each). Failed or empty lookups are never charged.

Do I need an API key or a login?

No. The Food Standards Agency publishes the whole ratings register as a documented open API with no key.

What can I search by?

By business name (Nando's), by town (Brighton) or by postcode. Use the businessType and localAuthority inputs to narrow a broad search.

How current is the data?

Every run queries the source live, so results are as fresh as the source itself. Ratings are published as local authorities upload inspections, usually within weeks.

How fast is it, and how many queries can I run?

Queries run concurrently (4 at a time by default, tunable in the input). A prefilled run finishes in seconds; large lists scale roughly linearly and stay well inside a normal run timeout.

Can I export the results to CSV, Excel or JSON?

Yes. Apify datasets export to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML and HTML, and can be pulled through the API or pushed to your own storage.

What happens when a query returns nothing?

You still get a row, carrying your original query and an error field explaining why. Nothing is silently dropped, and you are not charged for it.

Is scraping this data legal?

Yes. The FSA publishes hygiene ratings under the Open Government Licence so consumers and businesses can check them.

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