Montgomery County MD Restaurant & Food Inspections Scraper

The Montgomery County MD restaurant inspections scraper gives you one row per food facility inspection for Montgomery County, Maryland, straight from the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services via the official county 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 Montgomery County, Maryland (Rockville, Silver Spring, Bethesda, Gaithersburg, Germantown and more) as clean JSON, CSV or Excel. The data comes from the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services through the official open-data API (data.montgomerycountymd.gov dataset dkrp-gr48), updated daily by the county.

What you get

Each row is one inspection (one county inspectionNumber): business, owner, address, license sub-type, inspection type and date, status (Pass / Fail / Closed / Incomplete), all 16 compliance checks, and an issues list of checks that were not in compliance (e.g. cold_holding_temperature: Corrected Onsite). Sorted newest inspection first with a stable :id tiebreak.

Default = last 30 days. The county file holds about 3.2 million rows since June 2024, so an empty inspectedSince means "30 days ago" to keep runs fast and cheap.

Sample output (real run)

{
  "inspectionNumber": "26-9605",
  "registrationNumber": "55676",
  "businessName": "SAINTS CONSTANTINE & GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH",
  "owner": "STS CONSTANTINE & HELEN GOC",
  "address": "701 NORWOOD RD",
  "city": "Silver Spring",
  "state": "MD",
  "zip": "20905",
  "businessType": "Food Service Facility",
  "businessSubtype": "Food Service Facility License-Non-Profit Charitable Org",
  "inspectionType": "Comprehensive",
  "inspectionDate": "2026-10-09",
  "status": "Pass",
  "issues": [
    "rodents_and_insects: Not In Compliance"
  ],
  "issueCount": 1,
  "compliance": {
    "food_from_approved_source": "In Compliance",
    "food_protected_from_contamination": "In Compliance",
    "workers_restricted": "In Compliance",
    "proper_hand_washing": "In Compliance",
    "cooling_time_and_temperature": "Not Observed",
    "cold_holding_temperature": "In Compliance",
    "hot_holding_temperature": "Not Observed",
    "cooking_time_and_temperature": "Not Observed",
    "reheating_time_and_temperature": "Not Observed",
    "hot_and_cold_running_water_provided": "In Compliance",
    "proper_sewage_disposal": "In Compliance",
    "toxic_substances_and_pesticides": "In Compliance",
    "rodents_and_insects": "Not In Compliance",
    "nutritional_labeling": "In Compliance",
    "trans_fat_ban": "In Compliance",
    "nosmoking_sign_posted": "In Compliance"
  },
  "latitude": 39.11998,
  "longitude": -77.02191,
  "source": "Montgomery County MD Department of Health and Human Services via data.montgomerycountymd.gov"
}

Use cases

• Food-safety consultants, pest control, cleaning and equipment repair: statusContains: ["Fail"] for recent failed inspections.
• New-restaurant leads: Pre-Opening inspections show places about to open.
• Monitoring: schedule a daily run with the default 30-day window.

How to scrape Montgomery County MD 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
inspectedSince	Optional real date, YYYY-MM-DD. Empty = 30 days ago. Invalid dates fail fast with a clear message.
cities	e.g. ROCKVILLE, SILVER SPRING
zipCodes	5-digit ZIPs
nameContains	Business or owner name text
statusContains	Pass, Fail, Closed, Incomplete
onePerInspection	Default on: one row per inspection number, merging all published copies (the county file repeats each inspection ~13×)
maxItems	Default 200

Pricing (pay per event)

$3 per 1,000 inspections ($0.003 each) plus Apify's minimal $0.00005 start fee. Example: 200 inspections = 200 × $0.003 + $0.00005 ≈ $0.60.

Data caveats

Data is provided as published by Montgomery County. The county file publishes each inspection many times, and the copies are not always identical (about 4% of inspections have copies that disagree on a compliance check, inspection type or license sub-type). With onePerInspection on, all copies of an inspection number are merged: each of the 16 compliance checks takes the worst published value (Not In Compliance > Corrected Onsite > In Compliance > Not Observed / Not Applicable), and inspectionType, businessSubtype and status take the most common published value. statusesPublished lists every status seen and sourceRowCount shows how many source rows were merged. Turn onePerInspection off if you need every published row unchanged. City names with non-breaking spaces are normalised to normal spaces and the broken "u2013" dash in some inspection types is shown as "–". Very large history pulls (full 2024–present) may need a longer timeout.

License and disclaimer

The source dataset is Public Domain (Montgomery County, MD open data). This actor uses only the official public open-data API and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Montgomery County, Maryland or its Department of Health and Human Services.

Owner names / outreach: output includes owner names (sometimes individuals) from public inspection records. Handle them as personal data where applicable, and you are responsible for complying with CAN-SPAM, TCPA, GDPR/CCPA and any other applicable laws if you use this data for marketing or outreach.

FAQ

How much does it cost to scrape Montgomery County MD 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 Montgomery County MD restaurant inspections?

This Actor reads public records from the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services via the official county 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.

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