UK Food Hygiene Scraper — Ratings & Businesses

UK Food Hygiene Scraper pulls official food hygiene ratings for food businesses across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as clean, structured data. Search by business name, town or postcode, filter by business type or exact rating, and get back one row per establishment — its rating, full address, hygiene/structural/management scores, local authority and map coordinates. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or XML. Built for food and hospitality research, compliance checks, lead generation and automation workflows.

What does this UK Food Hygiene Scraper do?

Give it a business name, a location, or both, and it returns every matching establishment as structured data:

• Search by name — look up a chain or a single venue by business name (partial matches supported).
• Filter by location — narrow results to a town, street or full/partial postcode.
• Filter by business type — restrict to restaurants, takeaways, pubs, retailers, mobile caterers and more.
• Filter by rating — return only 5-star venues, 0-star venues, or any specific rating.
• Bulk export — page through thousands of matching businesses in a single run, capped by Max items.

What data can you get?

Field	Description
fhrsId	Unique food-hygiene establishment ID.
businessName	Name of the food business.
businessType	Type of business (e.g. Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen, Takeaway).
businessTypeId	Numeric business-type ID.
ratingValue	The published hygiene rating (e.g. 5, 4, AwaitingInspection).
ratingKey	Machine-readable rating key (e.g. fhrs_5_en-gb).
ratingDate	Date the rating was given.
addressLine1–addressLine4	The establishment's address lines.
postcode	Postcode of the business.
latitude / longitude	Map coordinates, where available.
localAuthority	The local authority that inspected the business.
scores	Sub-scores: hygiene, structural and management.
url	Link to the business's public rating page.

What you get

Each establishment is one clean dataset record. Export the full table to JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or pull it programmatically.

{
  "fhrsId": 1226939,
  "businessName": "Pizza Pilgrims",
  "businessType": "Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen",
  "businessTypeId": 1,
  "ratingValue": "5",
  "ratingKey": "fhrs_5_en-gb",
  "ratingDate": "2025-05-29T00:00:00",
  "addressLine1": "Kiosk 2013A",
  "addressLine2": "Westfield London Shopping Centre",
  "addressLine3": "Ariel Way",
  "addressLine4": "London",
  "postcode": "W12 7GE",
  "latitude": 51.50758,
  "longitude": -0.22128,
  "localAuthority": "Hammersmith and Fulham",
  "scores": { "hygiene": 5, "structural": 5, "management": 5 },
  "url": "https://ratings.food.gov.uk/business/en-GB/1226939"
}

Use cases

• Check the current hygiene rating of any UK food business before working with it.
• Build a directory of restaurants, takeaways or retailers in a town or postcode area.
• Generate qualified leads — every result includes name, address, local authority and location.
• Monitor rating changes across a chain, a supplier list or a delivery catchment.
• Enrich a compliance, insurance or due-diligence dataset with official ratings.

How to use the UK Food Hygiene Scraper

1. Add the UK Food Hygiene Scraper to your Apify account and open its input.
2. Enter a Business name and/or an Address or postcode.
3. Optionally set a Business type ID or a Rating key to filter further.
4. Set Max items to cap how many establishments you collect.
5. Click Run, then export the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or pull them via the Apify API.

Input

{
  "name": "pizza",
  "address": "London",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Field	Description
name	Business name to search for (partial matches supported).
address	Town, street or full/partial postcode.
businessType	Optional FSA business-type ID to filter by.
ratingKey	Optional exact rating filter (e.g. fhrs_5_en-gb).
maxItems	Maximum number of establishments to return.

Need more business & location data?

• Google Maps Scraper — places, contact details and reviews.
• Website Contact Scraper — emails, phones and socials from any site.
• Checkatrade Scraper — UK trade businesses and reviews.

FAQ

Which businesses are covered? Food businesses registered with UK local authorities under the national food hygiene rating scheme — restaurants, cafes, takeaways, pubs, hotels, schools, supermarkets, mobile caterers, distributors and more, across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

What do the ratings mean? Most businesses carry a rating from 5 (very good) down to 0 (urgent improvement needed). Some show AwaitingInspection or Exempt, and Scottish businesses use a Pass / Improvement Required scheme. Each record also includes the underlying hygiene, structural and management sub-scores.

How do I filter to a specific area? Put a town, street or postcode in the Address or postcode field. You can combine it with a business name and a rating filter in the same run.

What export formats are supported? JSON, CSV, Excel and XML, plus programmatic access through the Apify API.

How does billing work? You pay per establishment scraped, so cost scales with the number of records you actually collect. See the Pricing tab for current rates.

Can I use this with n8n? Yes. Run the UK Food Hygiene Scraper from n8n with the Apify node — trigger a run, pass your search terms, and read the dataset items straight into your workflow. It also works with Make, Zapier and the Apify API.

Can I connect this to other tools? The UK Food Hygiene Scraper connects with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. It works with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Drive and many more, plus the Apify API, JavaScript/Python clients and MCP. Or use webhooks to trigger an action whenever a run finishes.

Related Actors

• Google Maps Scraper
• Website Contact Scraper
• Checkatrade Scraper

Notes

Original clean-room implementation. Reads only publicly available food hygiene rating information. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Food Standards Agency.