# Open Food Facts Price Lookup (`kevinserver24/openfoodfacts-price-lookup`) Actor

Real, observed retail prices per product barcode, read from the Open Prices database (prices.openfoodfacts.org) -- an open, ODbL-licensed, community-sourced price observatory. No contributor identity, no receipt images.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/kevinserver24/openfoodfacts-price-lookup.md
- **Developed by:** [Kevin](https://apify.com/kevinserver24) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$10.00 / 1,000 price record verifieds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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 usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Open Food Facts Price Lookup

Unaffiliated, third-party Actor. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or
sponsored by Open Food Facts. Built on the Open Prices project
(prices.openfoodfacts.org), released under the Open Database License
(ODbL) -- reuse, including commercial reuse, is permitted with attribution:
[Open Prices data](https://prices.openfoodfacts.org), ODbL-licensed.

Give it product barcodes (EAN-8, EAN-13, UPC-A or GTIN-14); get back the
most recently recorded retail price for each one -- product name, brand(s),
category, price, currency, whether it was a discounted price, the
observation date, and the retail location it was seen at (store name,
chain, city, country, coordinates). Sourced entirely from Open Prices' own
public API, a single unauthenticated GET per barcode, no browser, no login.

Coverage is real but partial: Open Prices is a community-submitted
database, currently concentrated in France and Europe. A barcode with no
recorded price returns nothing and is not billed -- it does not mean the
product doesn't exist, only that nobody has recorded a price for it here
yet.

This Actor deliberately does not return the contributor's account handle
(the `owner` field on a price submission), the account that first added the
product to Open Food Facts (`creator`), any receipt or price-tag photo
(`proof`), or free-text comments a contributor may have left. Those identify
a person's account and contribution history, not the product or its price,
and none is needed to answer "what did this barcode cost, where, and when."

# Actor input Schema

## `barcodes` (type: `array`):

One barcode per line (or comma-separated), digits only (separators like spaces or dashes are stripped automatically): an EAN-8, EAN-13, UPC-A or GTIN-14 code, e.g. "3017620422003". Each barcode with at least one recorded price becomes exactly one billable record -- the most recent one observed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "barcodes": [
    "3017620422003",
    "0049000028911"
  ]
}
```

# 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 = {
    "barcodes": [
        "3017620422003",
        "0049000028911"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("kevinserver24/openfoodfacts-price-lookup").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 = { "barcodes": [
        "3017620422003",
        "0049000028911",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("kevinserver24/openfoodfacts-price-lookup").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 '{
  "barcodes": [
    "3017620422003",
    "0049000028911"
  ]
}' |
apify call kevinserver24/openfoodfacts-price-lookup --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,kevinserver24/openfoodfacts-price-lookup"
        }
    }
}

```

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/9yg4xaWa8Hoep5kie/builds/N6E7jdrSqdhub8g3k/openapi.json