# Pittsburgh Restaurant Inspections Scraper (Allegheny County) (`groundplanes/allegheny-restaurant-inspections`) Actor

Scrape Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, PA restaurant and food facility inspections: placards (Consumer Alert, Closure, Permit Denied), permit status and dates from the Allegheny County Health Department via the official WPRDC API. Filter by municipality, ZIP, name, placard and date.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/groundplanes/allegheny-restaurant-inspections.md
- **Developed by:** [John](https://apify.com/groundplanes) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Travel
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.10 / 1,000 inspections

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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

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# README

The **Pittsburgh restaurant inspections scraper** gives you one row per food facility inspection for **Pittsburgh & Allegheny County, PA**, straight from the **Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD)** via the official WPRDC open-data API. No login or coding needed: run it in your browser, on a schedule, or through the Apify API, and export results as **JSON, CSV or Excel**.

Get restaurant and food facility inspections for Pittsburgh and all of Allegheny County, PA, as clean JSON, CSV or Excel. The data comes from the **Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD)**, published on the official Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center (WPRDC) open data API.

### What you get

Each result is one inspection, deduplicated on `inspectionId` (the source occasionally contains duplicate rows): facility name, type, address, municipality, inspection date and purpose, **placard result** (Inspected & Permitted, Consumer Alert, Closure, Permit Denied...), reinspection flag and permit status. **Violation details are not included**, only the placard outcome.

### Use cases

- **Food safety and pest control sales:** find facilities that just got a Consumer Alert or Closure.
- **Restaurant suppliers and POS vendors:** spot new facilities by business start date.
- **Journalists and researchers:** track closures by municipality.
- **Monitoring:** schedule daily runs with a recent `inspectedSince` date.

### How to scrape Pittsburgh restaurant inspections

1. Click **Try for free** (or **Start**) on this page. A free Apify account is enough.
2. Leave the prefilled input to get a quick sample, or set the filters described below.
3. Set **maxItems** to cap how many rows (and how much) a run returns.
4. Click **Start** and wait a few seconds to a minute.
5. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or connect them to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or a webhook.

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| municipalities | Partial match, e.g. `PITTSBURGH`, `GREEN TREE` |
| zipCodes | 5-digit ZIPs |
| nameContains | Facility name text |
| placards | e.g. `Consumer Alert`, `Closure` |
| facilityTypeContains | e.g. `Restaurant` |
| inspectedSince | Real YYYY-MM-DD date, default 180 days ago |
| maxItems | Default 200 |

### Pricing (pay per event)

$3 per 1,000 inspections ($0.003 each), plus Apify's minimal $0.00005 start fee. **Example:** the default 200 inspections cost about $0.60. If a run hits your max charge limit, it stops cleanly and reports how many rows it delivered.

### Notes

ACHD publishes with a lag of several weeks. This Actor uses the official public API only. It is not affiliated with ACHD or WPRDC.

### Sample output

```json
{
  "inspectionId": "1314015",
  "facilityName": "Scott Farm Popcorn Co.",
  "facilityType": "Mobile Food",
  "category": null,
  "address": "1267 OAKDALE RD",
  "city": "OAKDALE",
  "state": "PA",
  "zip": "15071",
  "municipality": "NORTH FAYETTE TOWNSHIP",
  "inspectionDate": "2026-07-28",
  "inspectionPurpose": "Pre-Operational Inspection",
  "placard": "Inspected & Permitted",
  "reinspectionNeeded": "No",
  "permitStatus": "Inspection Complete",
  "businessStartDate": "2025-12-08",
  "nonprofit": null,
  "source": "Allegheny County Health Department via WPRDC"
}
```

### Source, license & data caveats

Source: [Allegheny County Restaurant/Food Facility Inspections (WPRDC)](https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/allegheny-county-restaurant-food-facility-inspection-violations), license **Creative Commons CCZero (CC0)**. Data is provided as published by ACHD, which publishes with a lag of several weeks.

### FAQ

#### How much does it cost to scrape Pittsburgh restaurant inspections?

You pay $0.003 per result ($3 per 1,000) plus a $0.00005 start fee, and nothing else. Apify's free plan includes $5 of monthly credit, which covers about 1,600 results. See **Pricing** above for a worked example.

#### Is it legal to scrape Pittsburgh restaurant inspections?

This Actor reads public records from the **Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD)** via the official WPRDC open-data API, using only public endpoints (no login, no CAPTCHA bypass, no private accounts). See the source/license section above for the dataset's terms. You are responsible for how you use the data; this is not legal advice.

#### How fresh is the data?

Each run reads the source live, so you get whatever the agency has published at that moment. How often the agency updates, and any known lag, is described in the data caveats/notes section above.

#### Can I use it via API, on a schedule, or with Google Sheets?

Yes. Every Apify Actor has a REST API and client libraries for Python and JavaScript. You can schedule daily or weekly runs, and send results to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, n8n, webhooks, or an AI agent via the Apify MCP server.

#### I need another city, county or field. Can you add it?

Open an issue on the **Issues** tab with the city or data source you need. We build new public-records scrapers regularly.

### More public-records scrapers by Groundplanes

Same clean output, pay-per-result pricing and official public data sources:

#### Restaurant & food inspections

- [Maricopa County (Phoenix) Restaurant Inspections Scraper](https://apify.com/groundplanes/maricopa-restaurant-inspections)
- [Las Vegas Restaurant Inspections & Grades Scraper (SNHD)](https://apify.com/groundplanes/las-vegas-restaurant-inspections)
- [Delaware Restaurant Inspections Scraper — Statewide Violations](https://apify.com/groundplanes/delaware-restaurant-inspections)
- [Boulder CO Restaurant Inspections Scraper — 2013–2026 Snapshot](https://apify.com/groundplanes/boulder-county-restaurant-inspections)
- [Montgomery County MD Restaurant & Food Inspections Scraper](https://apify.com/groundplanes/montgomery-md-food-inspections)
- [NY State Restaurant Inspections Scraper — NYSDOH, Non-NYC](https://apify.com/groundplanes/ny-state-food-service-inspections)

#### Code violations & distressed property leads

- [Pittsburgh Code Violations Scraper — Distressed Property Leads](https://apify.com/groundplanes/pittsburgh-code-violations)
- [Orlando FL Code Enforcement Scraper — Code Violation Leads](https://apify.com/groundplanes/orlando-code-enforcement-cases)
- [New Orleans Code Violations Scraper — Code Enforcement Leads](https://apify.com/groundplanes/nola-code-enforcement-violations)

#### Business licenses & new business leads

- [Delaware Business Licenses Scraper — New Business Leads](https://apify.com/groundplanes/delaware-business-licenses)
- [Norfolk VA Business Licenses Scraper — New Business Leads](https://apify.com/groundplanes/norfolk-va-business-licenses)
- [Berkeley CA Business Licenses Scraper — Local B2B Leads](https://apify.com/groundplanes/berkeley-ca-business-licenses)
- [New Orleans Business Licenses Scraper — New Business Leads](https://apify.com/groundplanes/nola-occupational-business-licenses)

# Actor input Schema

## `municipalities` (type: `array`):

Allegheny County municipality names as listed by ACHD, e.g. PITTSBURGH-112, GREEN TREE BOROUGH. Partial, case-insensitive match. Empty = all.

## `zipCodes` (type: `array`):

5-digit ZIP codes. Empty = all.

## `nameContains` (type: `string`):

Case-insensitive text the facility name must contain.

## `placards` (type: `array`):

Keep only these placard results (partial match), e.g. Consumer Alert, Closure, Permit Denied. Empty = all.

## `facilityTypeContains` (type: `string`):

e.g. Restaurant, Bakery, Fish Fry. Empty = all.

## `inspectedSince` (type: `string`):

Default: 180 days ago. ACHD publishes with a lag of several weeks.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum inspections to return.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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("groundplanes/allegheny-restaurant-inspections").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("groundplanes/allegheny-restaurant-inspections").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 groundplanes/allegheny-restaurant-inspections --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,groundplanes/allegheny-restaurant-inspections"
        }
    }
}
```

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/Kg4ORD4wzhOY233N5/builds/ftIAZKgVf3XEGxZdw/openapi.json