# Open Food Facts Scraper (`leorochasantos/open-food-facts`) Actor

Search Open Food Facts by product name or look up any EAN barcode. Returns nutrition facts, Nutri-Score, NOVA group, Eco-Score, ingredients, and categories — one flat typed row per product.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/leorochasantos/open-food-facts.md
- **Developed by:** [Leonardo Santos](https://apify.com/leorochasantos) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.95 / 1,000 food product results

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Open Food Facts Scraper

Search the Open Food Facts database by product name or look up a product by its
EAN barcode. Returns structured nutrition facts, Nutri-Score, NOVA group,
Eco-Score, ingredients, and categories — one row per product, ready for
LLM/MCP consumption.

### Why this actor?

- **Clean, structured output** — flat JSON with typed nullable fields, no raw
  HTML to parse. Nutri-Score, NOVA group, and Eco-Score are extracted and
  normalized.
- **Dual-API resilience** — tries `world.openfoodfacts.org` first, silently
  falls back to `fr.openfoodfacts.org` on transport failures so your automation
  keeps running.
- **Predictable billing** — pay per delivered product row. Error items
  (product not found, upstream failures) are always free.
- **Agent-ready** — every row carries a `scraped_at` ISO timestamp,
  `productUrl` for traceability, and flat nullable fields that LLMs consume
  without confusion.

### Input

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "chocolate",
  "maxResults": 10,
  "country": "world"
}
```

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `mode` | `"search"` or `"barcode"` | `"search"` | Search by name or look up a specific barcode. |
| `query` | string | — | Product name or keyword (required in search mode). |
| `barcode` | string | — | EAN-13 barcode (required in barcode mode). |
| `maxResults` | 1–100 | 10 | Max products to return (search mode only). |
| `country` | `"world"` or `"fr"` | `"world"` | OFF instance to query. Falls back to the other on failure. |

### Output

One item per product:

```json
{
  "input": "chocolate",
  "code": "3017620422003",
  "productName": "Nutella",
  "brand": "Ferrero",
  "quantity": "400 g",
  "categories": ["spreads", "sweet spreads", "hazelnut spreads", "chocolate spreads"],
  "nutriscore": "e",
  "novaGroup": 4,
  "ecoscore": "d",
  "ingredientsText": "Sugar, palm oil, hazelnuts (13%), ...",
  "imageUrl": "https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/301/762/042/2003/front_en.123.400.jpg",
  "productUrl": "https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/3017620422003",
  "error": null,
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-17T00:00:00.000Z"
}
```

Error items have `error` set to a non-null message and are **never charged**.

### Pricing

Pay per event, and **the platform usage is on us** — the price you see is the price you pay, with no compute bill on top.

| Event | Price | What one charge buys |
|---|---|---|
| Food Product Result | **$0.003** | One product row delivered. Error items (product not found, upstream failures) are never charged. |
| Actor Start | **$0.002** | One run, whatever it returns. |

Higher Apify subscription tiers pay less on every event (Silver −20%, Gold −35%).

### Use cases

- **Nutrition monitoring** — track Nutri-Score and NOVA group for a portfolio
  of products over time.
- **Grocery data enrichment** — resolve barcodes to full nutrition and
  ingredient profiles.
- **Product discovery** — search for products by keyword and compare nutrition
  scores across brands.
- **LLM pipelines** — feed structured food data into agent tool calls, RAG,
  or analytics dashboards.

### FAQ

**Where does the data come from?** The [Open Food Facts](https://world.openfoodfacts.org/)
database — a collaborative, free, and open database of food products from
around the world.

**What barcode formats are supported?** EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, and UPC-E
barcodes are supported by the Open Food Facts API.

***

*This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by
Open Food Facts.*

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Search by product name/query or look up a specific product by barcode (EAN).

## `query` (type: `string`):

Product name or keyword to search for (required in search mode).

## `barcode` (type: `string`):

Product barcode (EAN-13 or similar) to look up (required in barcode mode).

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of products to return (search mode only, 1–100).

## `country` (type: `string`):

Open Food Facts instance to query. Falls back to the other on failure.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy to use for outgoing requests.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "chocolate",
  "barcode": "3017620422003",
  "maxResults": 10,
  "country": "world",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "query": "chocolate",
    "barcode": "3017620422003"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("leorochasantos/open-food-facts").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 = {
    "query": "chocolate",
    "barcode": "3017620422003",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("leorochasantos/open-food-facts").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 '{
  "query": "chocolate",
  "barcode": "3017620422003"
}' |
apify call leorochasantos/open-food-facts --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,leorochasantos/open-food-facts"
        }
    }
}

```

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/iQ29VABkcGbLR77Bv/builds/iZW9faBznRQ70TyU7/openapi.json