Restaurant Health Inspections – Food Safety Scores & Violations (US cities)

Get restaurant health inspection results from official US city, county and state health departments in one clean schema: establishment name and address, inspection date and type, pass / fail / closed, letter grade or score, and the list of violations (code, description, critical flag), plus license/permit ID, facility type and coordinates.

New York City and several other health departments publish one row per violation. This Actor groups them into one record per inspection, so you get one row per inspection with its violations attached.

All data comes from the agencies' own open-data portals (Socrata APIs). No scraping, no login, no API key.

$1 per 1,000 inspections. You pay only for inspections saved.

Who uses it

• Pest control, cleaning, grease-trap and hood-cleaning companies: restaurants that just failed for rodents/insects, dirty surfaces or ventilation hoods are warm leads.
• Food-safety consultants and trainers: places with critical violations, failed inspections or missing certified food managers.
• Restaurant buyers, landlords, franchisors and lenders: inspection history of a location or a chain before you sign.
• Food delivery, review and map apps: show official grades and scores next to listings.
• Journalists and researchers: closures, worst scores and trends by ZIP code or neighborhood.

Jurisdictions

Code	Health department / dataset	Score / result	Violations	Updated
NYC	New York City DOHMH – Restaurant Inspection Results	Grade A/B/C, points (lower = better), closures	code, text, critical	daily
CHI	Chicago Dept. of Public Health – Food Inspections	Pass / Pass w/ Conditions / Fail, risk level	number, title, inspector comments, priority flag	daily
AUS	Austin Public Health – Inspection Scores (Austin, Pflugerville, Manor, Lakeway...)	Score 0-100 (higher = better, <70 fails)	–	monthly
NYS	New York State DOH – Food Service Inspections (outside NYC)	Critical / not-corrected counts	code, text, critical	weekly
KING	Public Health – Seattle & King County	Satisfactory / Unsatisfactory, points, Excellent/Good/Okay rating, closures	text, red (critical) / blue, points	daily
MOCO	Montgomery County, MD – Food Inspections	Pass / Fail / Closed	risk-factor items not in compliance	daily
DE	Delaware Office of Food Protection (statewide)	– (violations only)	FDA Food Code citation + text	weekly
MARIN	Marin County, CA Environmental Health	Green / Yellow / Red placard	CA code, inspector notes, major flag	daily
BOULDER	Boulder County, CO Public Health	Pass / Reinspection Required / Closure, points	item, text, priority flag	monthly
CIN	Cincinnati Health Department – Food Safety Program	Approved / Not in compliance	code, text, inspector comments	daily

Choose ALL to search every jurisdiction.

Input examples

Restaurants in NYC and Chicago that failed or were closed in the last 14 days with critical violations:

{
  "jurisdictions": ["NYC", "CHI"],
  "withinDays": 14,
  "results": ["fail", "closed"],
  "onlyWithCriticalViolations": true
}

Inspection history of one restaurant chain in Seattle-area ZIP codes:

{ "jurisdictions": ["KING"], "nameContains": "starbucks", "zipCodes": ["981"], "withinDays": 365 }

NYC C-grade range (28+ points) in Brooklyn this month:

{ "jurisdictions": ["NYC"], "cities": ["Brooklyn"], "minScore": 28, "withinDays": 30 }

Daily feed of new inspections everywhere (schedule it):

{ "jurisdictions": ["ALL"], "withinDays": 7, "onlyNew": true, "maxResults": 0 }

Filters

Field	Meaning
jurisdictions	Codes from the table, or ALL
withinDays / inspectedAfter / inspectedBefore	Inspection date range
results	pass, conditional, fail, closed (normalized, see below)
onlyWithCriticalViolations	At least one critical / priority / red / major violation
minViolations	At least N violations cited
minScore / maxScore	Only for datasets with a numeric score (NYC, AUS, KING, BOULDER)
nameContains, zipCodes, cities	Name, ZIP (or prefix) and city / NYC borough
maxResults, maxResultsPerJurisdiction	Limits (you pay per inspection saved)
onlyNew + stateKey	Monitoring: skip inspections returned in earlier runs
includeViolations	Turn off for a slim table (counts stay)

How resultCategory is normalized

Jurisdiction	pass	conditional	fail	closed
NYC	0-13 points (A range) or no violations	14-27	28+	Closed / re-closed by DOHMH
CHI	Pass	Pass w/ Conditions	Fail	– (Out of Business, No Entry... = other)
AUS	90-100	70-89	< 70	–
NYS	no critical violations	critical, all corrected	critical not corrected	–
KING	Satisfactory	–	Unsatisfactory	business closed at inspection
MOCO	Pass	–	Fail	Closed
MARIN	Green placard	Yellow	(no placard) violations found	Red placard
BOULDER	Pass	–	Reinspection Required	Closure
CIN	Approved / abated	Minor violations / abated on site	Not in compliance / not abated	–
DE	not published (null)

The original wording is always kept in result.

Output

One record per inspection (sample, NYC):

{
  "jurisdiction": "NYC",
  "jurisdictionName": "New York City, NY",
  "establishmentName": "V & S PIZZERIA OF SHEAPSHEAD BAY",
  "address": "1723 EMMONS AVENUE",
  "city": "Brooklyn",
  "state": "NY",
  "zip": "11235",
  "inspectionDate": "2026-10-17",
  "inspectionType": "Cycle Inspection / Re-inspection",
  "resultCategory": "pass",
  "result": "Violations were cited in the following area(s).",
  "grade": "A",
  "score": 11,
  "scoreNote": "NYC points: lower is better (0-13 = A, 14-27 = B, 28+ = C)",
  "violationCount": 2,
  "criticalViolationCount": 1,
  "violations": [
    { "code": "02B", "description": "Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.", "critical": true },
    { "code": "10F", "description": "Non-food contact surface or equipment made of unacceptable material, not kept clean...", "critical": false }
  ],
  "facilityType": "Restaurant",
  "licenseId": "40393413",
  "establishmentId": "40393413",
  "inspectionId": "40393413-2026-10-17",
  "latitude": 40.58337,
  "longitude": -73.951276,
  "borough": "Brooklyn",
  "phone": "(718) 332-7300",
  "cuisine": "Pizza",
  "source": "NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - DOHMH New York City Restaurant Inspection Results",
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/43nn-pn8j"
}

Extra fields by jurisdiction: akaName, riskCategory (Chicago, King), operatorName, corporationName, county, permitExpirationDate, inspectorComments (NY State), ownerName (Montgomery), phone (NYC, Cincinnati), seating (King), violation comments (Chicago, Boulder, Cincinnati) and points (King). Fields a dataset does not publish are null.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.001 per inspection saved ($1 per 1,000), plus a tiny start fee. Set Max inspections or a maximum cost per run; the run stops cleanly at that limit. Error rows are free.

	This Actor	Typical single-city inspection scrapers
Coverage	10 official jurisdictions, one schema	1 city
Violations	grouped per inspection, critical flag	often one row per violation
Monitoring	built-in onlyNew	–
Price	$1 / 1,000 inspections	similar or higher

Use with AI agents (Apify MCP)

Add this Actor to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client through the Apify MCP server and ask, for example: "Which Chicago restaurants failed a health inspection this week for rodents?" or "Show the inspection history of 'Joe's Pizza' in NYC." The flat, documented output is easy for agents to filter and summarize.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? As fresh as each health department's portal (most update daily; see the table). The Actor queries the live API on every run.

Can I get all inspections of one restaurant? Yes: nameContains plus a ZIP code, with no date filter (or withinDays: 3650).

Why do scores mean different things? Each agency has its own system. Use resultCategory for a common pass/fail view; scoreNote explains each score.

Are these all restaurants? They include every food establishment the department inspects: restaurants, bars, cafes, grocery stores, schools, daycares, food trucks and caterers. Use facilityType to filter.

Why are some coordinates missing? King County and some NY State records have no published coordinates.

Is this legal to use? Yes. All sources are official public open-data portals. Always check the agency's site before publishing claims about a specific business; inspection results are a snapshot of one visit.

Data sources and terms

NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (data.cityofnewyork.us), City of Chicago (data.cityofchicago.org, terms of use), City of Austin (datahub.austintexas.gov, public domain), New York State Department of Health (health.data.ny.gov), Public Health – Seattle & King County (data.kingcounty.gov, public domain), Montgomery County MD (data.montgomerycountymd.gov, public domain), Delaware Division of Public Health (data.delaware.gov, public domain), County of Marin (data.marincounty.gov, ODbL), Boulder County Public Health (data.colorado.gov, public domain), City of Cincinnati (data.cincinnati-oh.gov, public domain). This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by these agencies.

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