UK Food Hygiene Ratings & Restaurant Leads Scraper

Export restaurants, takeaways, pubs, hotels, caterers, supermarkets, schools, care facilities, manufacturers, and other food businesses from the official UK Food Standards Agency ratings service. The Actor provides a clean national dataset with hygiene ratings, inspection dates, business types, addresses, coordinates, local-authority information, and component inspection scores.

The official service covers hundreds of thousands of establishments across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland and is updated by local authorities. This Actor uses the documented Food Hygiene Ratings API and always supplies a local-authority filter, avoiding the CPU-intensive unfiltered query that the API correctly rejects.

What you can use it for

• Build restaurant, takeaway, hospitality, retail, or catering lead lists.
• Find low-rated businesses for compliance, training, cleaning, pest-control, maintenance, and food-safety services.
• Find highly rated venues for directories, maps, consumer research, and location intelligence.
• Monitor recent ratings or establishments with a new rating pending.
• Segment businesses by nation, local authority, business type, rating, or name.
• Enrich commercial property, franchise, delivery, POS, supplier, insurance, and hospitality datasets.
• Create geographic analyses using official latitude and longitude values.

Data included

Each result includes the official FHRS identifier, local-authority business ID, business name and type, rating value and date, scheme type, full address, available phone number, local authority contact information, latitude and longitude, and the direct business rating page.

Where the authority publishes component scores, the Actor keeps:

• hygiene score
• structural score
• confidence-in-management score

The UK schemes differ. England, Wales, and Northern Ireland commonly publish numeric 0–5 ratings. Scotland uses values such as Pass and Improvement Required. The original RatingValue, RatingKey, and SchemeType are preserved so those systems are not incorrectly mixed.

Input

The default run returns up to 1,000 establishments sampled across multiple local authorities. Set maxResults as high as 500,000 for a near-national export.

Available filters:

• regions: England, Scotland, Wales, and/or Northern Ireland
• localAuthorities: exact authority names, friendly names, API IDs, or authority codes
• businessTypes: exact official business-type labels
• ratingValues: exact rating values, including numeric strings or Scottish labels
• minimumRating: minimum numeric FHRS rating from 0 to 5
• nameContains: case-insensitive business-name fragment
• newRatingPendingOnly: only records awaiting publication of a new rating

Example: London restaurant and takeaway leads rated 0–2 can be requested by listing the individual rating values:

{
  "maxResults": 10000,
  "regions": ["England"],
  "localAuthorities": ["Westminster", "Camden", "Tower Hamlets"],
  "businessTypes": ["Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen", "Takeaway/sandwich shop"],
  "ratingValues": ["0", "1", "2"]
}

Example: Scottish businesses requiring improvement:

{
  "maxResults": 5000,
  "regions": ["Scotland"],
  "ratingValues": ["Improvement Required"]
}

Output example

{
  "fhrsId": "1234567",
  "businessName": "Example Kitchen",
  "businessType": "Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen",
  "ratingValue": "5",
  "ratingDate": "2026-07-20",
  "address": { "line1": "10 High Street", "postCode": "SW1A 1AA" },
  "localAuthority": { "name": "Westminster", "region": "England" },
  "scores": { "hygiene": 0, "structural": 0, "confidenceInManagement": 0 },
  "latitude": 51.5,
  "longitude": -0.12
}

Results are stored in the default Apify dataset and are available as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or through the Apify API and integrations.

Performance and reliability

The FSA rejects national establishment searches without a meaningful filter. The Actor first downloads the official authority directory, then requests establishments one authority at a time. Page sizes are chosen from maxResults to keep the default dataset geographically useful while allowing high-volume exports. Requests retry transient failures, dataset items are written in batches, and pagination follows the API-provided page counts.

Filters that the national API cannot apply uniformly are checked locally. Rare combinations may therefore scan many establishments before producing the requested number of matches.

Data source and responsible use

Ratings and business details come from the Food Standards Agency on behalf of UK local authorities. A rating describes food-hygiene standards observed at the relevant inspection; it is not a review of food quality. Publication schedules and field coverage vary by authority. Empty contact fields remain empty, and missing inspection scores remain null.

Follow FSA open-data terms and applicable privacy and marketing laws. Direct questions about a business rating to the responsible local authority. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Food Standards Agency.

Pricing

Pay-per-event pricing charges a small Actor-start event and one result event for each saved establishment. maxResults gives you a predictable upper bound; scanned but non-matching source rows are not charged as results.

Changelog

2026-08-03 — 1.0.0

• Initial release.
• Verified live API v2 authority and establishment responses.
• Added authority-aware national pagination, all four UK regions, scheme-safe ratings, component scores, geocodes, retries, batch writes, and dataset overview.