# Delaware Restaurant Inspections Scraper — Statewide Violations (`groundplanes/delaware-restaurant-inspections`) Actor

Scrape statewide Delaware restaurant and food establishment inspections from the Division of Public Health via the official data.delaware.gov API: one row per inspection with all cited violations grouped, plus coordinates. Wilmington, Dover, Newark and beyond. Filter by city, ZIP, name and date.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/groundplanes/delaware-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
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## 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?

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.

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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 **Delaware restaurant inspections scraper** gives you one row per food establishment inspection (all cited violations grouped) for **Delaware (statewide)**, straight from the **Delaware Division of Public Health** via the official data.delaware.gov 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 Delaware food establishment inspections with violations, statewide, for the past two years (the window the state publishes), from the **Delaware Division of Public Health**, using the official data.delaware.gov API. That covers Wilmington, Dover, Newark, Rehoboth Beach, Lewes and every other town.

### What you get

Each result is one inspection, with **all cited violations grouped into it** (the raw source has one row per violation): name, address, city, ZIP, date, inspection type, violation count, the violation list (Food Code section and description) and coordinates.

### Use cases

- **Food safety consultants, pest control and cleaning services:** find establishments with many violations.
- **Restaurant tech and suppliers:** get a statewide list of active food businesses.
- **Beach-season monitoring:** schedule runs for Rehoboth, Lewes and Dewey Beach.

### How to scrape Delaware 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 |
|---|---|
| cities | e.g. `Wilmington` |
| zipCodes | 5-digit ZIPs |
| nameContains | Name text |
| minViolations | e.g. 5 |
| inspectedSince | Real YYYY-MM-DD date, default 30 days ago. The source only holds about the last two years. |
| 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

Official public API only. The Actor pages through the full result set with no 100k offset cap; a stable sort (date, name, address, row id) keeps pages from skipping or repeating. Invalid queries fail with the state API's error message instead of retrying. Inspections with no violations may not appear in the source. Not affiliated with the State of Delaware.

### Sample output

```json
{
  "restaurantName": "PR Bakery Deli and More",
  "address": "600 North Lincoln Street",
  "city": "Wilmington",
  "state": "DE",
  "zip": "19805",
  "inspectionDate": "2026-10-07",
  "inspectionType": "Routine",
  "violationCount": 3,
  "violations": [
    {
      "code": "2-103.11",
      "description": "Person-In-Charge-Duties"
    }
  ],
  "latitude": 39.75056,
  "longitude": -75.57062,
  "source": "Delaware Division of Public Health via data.delaware.gov"
}
```

### Source, license & data caveats

Source: [data.delaware.gov Food Establishment Inspection Violations (384s-wygj)](https://data.delaware.gov/d/384s-wygj), license **Public Domain**. The state publishes it **weekly** and covers the past two years. Data is provided as published by the state.

### FAQ

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

This Actor reads public records from the **Delaware Division of Public Health** via the official data.delaware.gov 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)
- [Pittsburgh Restaurant Inspections Scraper (Allegheny County)](https://apify.com/groundplanes/allegheny-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

## `cities` (type: `array`):

e.g. Wilmington, Dover, Newark, Rehoboth Beach. Case-insensitive exact city. Empty = all.

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

5-digit ZIPs. Empty = all.

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

Case-insensitive text in the establishment name.

## `minViolations` (type: `integer`):

Keep inspections with at least this many violations.

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

Default: 30 days ago.

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

Maximum inspections to return.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "minViolations": 0,
  "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/delaware-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/delaware-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/delaware-restaurant-inspections --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,groundplanes/delaware-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/UU8KlON3b0o6bd8hd/builds/FM4xPeKYHfPnFSjKH/openapi.json