NY State Restaurant Inspections Scraper — NYSDOH, Non-NYC

The NY State restaurant inspections scraper gives you one row per food service establishment (its latest inspection) for New York State (55 counties outside NYC), straight from the New York State Department of Health via the official health.data.ny.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 the latest restaurant and food service inspection for every permitted establishment the New York State Department of Health reports on — Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, Long Island (Nassau County only), Westchester, the Hudson Valley and more (not NYC, Erie County/Buffalo area or Suffolk County). Data comes from the official open-data API (health.data.ny.gov dataset cnih-y5dw, "Food Service Establishment: Last Inspection"), posted monthly by NYSDOH (source last updated 2026-10-08).

What you get

Each row is one facility's most recent inspection (a snapshot, not full history): facility, operation and corporation name, facility type, address, municipality, county, inspection date and type, violation items, critical / not-corrected / non-critical counts, inspector comments, permit expiration and coordinates. Sorted newest inspection first with a stable :id tiebreak. About 25 facilities have two rows (inspection + re-inspection); onePerFacility keeps one.

Coverage: 55 counties. New York City (5 boroughs), Erie and Suffolk counties run their own programs and are not in this dataset, so Buffalo and its Erie County suburbs are excluded. Covered areas include Rochester (Monroe), Syracuse (Onondaga), Albany and the Capital Region, Nassau County, Westchester, the Hudson Valley, and upstate counties outside Erie.

Inspector comments: inspectionComments is free text written by inspectors and can occasionally mention people (staff or operator names). Treat it as potentially personal data.

Privacy: the source's permit-holder first/last name fields are intentionally left out.

Sample output (real run)

{
  "operationId": "1146843",
  "facilityName": "PLAN B",
  "operationName": "PLAN B",
  "permittedCorporation": "TREWILL INC.",
  "facilityType": "Food Service Establishment - Food Service Establishment",
  "address": "114 ORANGE AVENUE",
  "city": "SUFFERN",
  "municipality": "RAMAPO",
  "county": "ROCKLAND",
  "state": "NY",
  "zip": "10901",
  "inspectionDate": "2026-10-02",
  "inspectionType": "Inspection",
  "violations": "Item 12C-   Plumbing and sinks not properly sized, installed, maintained; equipment and floors not properly drained; Item 15A-   Floors, walls, ceilings, not smooth, properly constructed, in disrepair, dirty surfaces;",
  "criticalViolations": 0,
  "criticalNotCorrected": 0,
  "noncriticalViolations": 2,
  "inspectionComments": "Please be aware that any violation of the NYS Sanitary Code Subpart 14-1 may be subject to a civil penalty up to $2,000 per day.",
  "permitExpirationDate": "2027-01-31",
  "localHealthDepartment": "Rockland County",
  "latitude": 41.115498,
  "longitude": -74.154201,
  "source": "New York State Department of Health via health.data.ny.gov"
}

Use cases

• Food-safety consultants, pest control and cleaning services: criticalOnly: true (~2,900 facilities with critical violations).
• Restaurant suppliers and POS vendors: statewide list of active food service establishments by county.
• Journalists and researchers: compare violation rates across counties.

How to scrape NY State 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. Invalid dates fail fast with a clear message.
counties	e.g. MONROE, NASSAU, WESTCHESTER
cities	e.g. ROCHESTER, SYRACUSE
nameContains	Facility / operation / corporation name
criticalOnly	Only rows with ≥1 critical violation
onePerFacility	One row per NYSDOH operation ID
maxItems	Default 200

Pricing (pay per event)

$3 per 1,000 rows ($0.003 each) plus Apify's minimal $0.00005 start fee. Example: 200 facilities = 200 × $0.003 + $0.00005 ≈ $0.60; the full statewide list (~21,600) costs about $65.

Data caveats

Data is provided as published by NYSDOH: last inspection only, some dates go back to 2007 for facilities not recently inspected, and violation text is the general description, not the inspector's full report. Any concern about a specific establishment should go to its local health department.

License and disclaimer

Source: New York State Department of Health open data (health.data.ny.gov), subject to its terms of use. This actor uses only the official public open-data API and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the New York State Department of Health.

FAQ

How much does it cost to scrape NY State 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 NY State restaurant inspections?

This Actor reads public records from the New York State Department of Health via the official health.data.ny.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.

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