Restaurant Health Inspections (New York City & Austin)

Food establishment inspection scores, grades and violations for New York City and Austin, as each city publishes them, with per-row source and version. Unofficial.

Modes (endpoint)

• inspections: Search inspections (set filters.city); pages automatically up to Max results
• nyc-facility: NYC facility history (ids: NYC CAMIS numbers)
• austin-facility: Austin facility history (ids: Austin facility IDs)

Filters are passed as JSON in filters, using the same names as the output's query object (e.g. {"city":"nyc","zip":"10001"}).

Output. One row per record (type: "record"), plus source_notice and removal on every row. Free status rows (never charged): invalid-input, not-found, no-results, api-error, service-busy, run-limit-reached, free-plan-limit, charge-limit-reached.

Example row:

{
 "city": "nyc",
 "facility_id": "50103573",
 "camis": "50103573",
 "name": "LAVAN 541",
 "address": {
  "building": "541",
  "street": "WEST 25 STREET",
  "borough": "Manhattan",
  "zip": "10001"
 },
 "cuisine": "American",
 "latitude": 40.749587,
 "longitude": -74.004674,
 "inspection_date": "2026-10-27",
 "inspection_type": "Cycle Inspection / Initial Inspection",
 "action": "Violations were cited in the following area(s).",
 "score": 12,
 "grade": "A",
 "grade_meaning": "Grade A (score 0-13)",
 "grade_date": "2026-10-27",
 "violation_count": 3,
 "source_dataset": {
  "name": "DOHMH New York City Restaurant Inspection Results",
  "id": "43nn-pn8j",
  "portal": "https://data.cityofnewyork.us"
 },
 "source_city": "New York City",
 "modifications": "Fields selected and renamed; phone omitted.",
 "record_date": "2026-10-29",
 "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T10:27:34Z"
}

Data source, notices and limits

• Source: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, NYC Open Data, dataset 43nn-pn8j (version: record_date). Modified: fields selected and renamed; phone omitted. Source: City of Austin, Austin Public Health, data.austintexas.gov, dataset ecmv-9xxi. Public domain.
• Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any city.
• Provided as is; may be incomplete or out of date.
• Includes violations that may not yet be adjudicated (NYC). Results reflect the inspector's findings at the time of inspection. NYC scores: lower is better. Austin scores: out of 100, higher is better.
• Do not use this data to re-identify or contact individuals.
• Food establishment inspections as each city publishes them; no extra filtering by establishment type. Business name, address and inspection results; no phone numbers, inspector names or comments.
• New York City cached up to 12 hours (updated daily at source), Austin up to 24 hours (updated about every two weeks); retrieved_at shows when.
• Removal requests: support@lepidata.com (handled within 30 days).
• Unofficial data provided as is. Not an official health rating.
• Records listed for removal on request are filtered out of every run.
• Source capacity is shared by all users of this tool. When it runs low or the source rate limits, runs stop cleanly with a free service-busy row. Hard cap: 300 source calls per run, paced (about one call every 1 s).
• Free-plan accounts get up to 100 results per run.

Pricing. Pay per result row, flat on every plan, no start fee. Status rows are free.

Contact: support@lepidata.com