# UK Food Hygiene Ratings Scraper (`neuton/uk-food-hygiene-ratings-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Food Standards Agency hygiene ratings for UK restaurants, takeaways, caterers, and food businesses from the official no-key FHRS API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/neuton/uk-food-hygiene-ratings-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ashwin Prasad](https://apify.com/neuton) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 results

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

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

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# README

## UK Food Hygiene Ratings Scraper

Scrape official UK Food Standards Agency hygiene ratings for restaurants, takeaways, cafes, hotels, schools, care homes, and other food businesses.

This actor is built for food delivery market research, restaurant lead lists, compliance monitoring, hospitality due diligence, local SEO datasets, and location intelligence. It uses the official public Food Hygiene Rating Scheme API, so it is inexpensive to run and does not need a browser or proxy-heavy scraping.

### What You Can Extract

- Business name, business type, FHRS ID, rating value, rating date, and rating key
- Full public address, postcode, local authority, authority code, authority website, and authority email
- Hygiene, structural, and management scores when present
- Latitude and longitude when available
- New-rating-pending status and scheme type
- Paginated official establishment search results

### Common Use Cases

- Build restaurant, takeaway, cafe, hotel, school, and food-business datasets in the UK
- Monitor poor hygiene ratings for food delivery, marketplace risk, compliance, or insurance workflows
- Find restaurant leads by city, postcode, authority, rating, or business type
- Enrich CRM, spreadsheets, BI dashboards, maps, and AI agents with official food-safety data
- Compare local restaurant and takeaway markets across London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bristol, Liverpool, and Cardiff

### SEO Keywords

UK food hygiene ratings scraper, Food Standards Agency scraper, FHRS API scraper, restaurant hygiene rating scraper, takeaway hygiene ratings UK, UK restaurant data scraper, food delivery restaurant data UK, London restaurant hygiene scraper, UK hospitality compliance data.

### Example Input

```json
{
  "address": "London",
  "businessName": "",
  "ratingKey": "fhrs_5_en-gb",
  "pageSize": 25,
  "maxPages": 2,
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

### Output Fields

Each dataset row can include `sourceType`, `fhrsId`, `businessName`, `businessType`, `businessTypeId`, `ratingValue`, `ratingKey`, `ratingDate`, `newRatingPending`, `hygieneScore`, `structuralScore`, `managementScore`, `localAuthorityName`, `localAuthorityCode`, `localAuthorityBusinessId`, `localAuthorityEmail`, `localAuthorityWebsite`, `address`, `addressLine1`, `addressLine2`, `addressLine3`, `addressLine4`, `postcode`, `phone`, `latitude`, `longitude`, `schemeType`, `sourceUrl`, and `scrapedAt`.

### Pricing Recommendation

Launch at about $2.50-$3 per 1,000 rows. This should stay profitable because the actor is official-API-first and 256 MB HTTP-only. If users run recurring city monitoring, compliance feeds, or enriched detail workflows, move toward $5 per 1,000 rows after repeat usage appears.

### Notes

This actor extracts public official food hygiene rating data only. It does not collect private account data or bypass any login.

# Actor input Schema

## `address` (type: `string`):

Optional city, postcode, or address search, such as London, Manchester, Birmingham, or SW1A.

## `businessName` (type: `string`):

Optional restaurant, takeaway, hotel, school, or food business name.

## `localAuthorityId` (type: `string`):

Optional Food Standards Agency local authority ID. Leave blank to search across authorities.

## `ratingKey` (type: `string`):

Optional rating key, such as fhrs\_5\_en-gb, fhrs\_4\_en-gb, fhrs\_3\_en-gb, fhrs\_2\_en-gb, fhrs\_1\_en-gb, or fhrs\_0\_en-gb.

## `pageSize` (type: `integer`):

Number of establishments to request per page.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of result pages to fetch.

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

Maximum establishment rows to return.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "address": "London",
  "businessName": "",
  "localAuthorityId": "",
  "ratingKey": "",
  "pageSize": 25,
  "maxPages": 2,
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

# 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 = {
    "address": "London"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("neuton/uk-food-hygiene-ratings-scraper").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 = { "address": "London" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("neuton/uk-food-hygiene-ratings-scraper").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 '{
  "address": "London"
}' |
apify call neuton/uk-food-hygiene-ratings-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,neuton/uk-food-hygiene-ratings-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

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/xq2NfcirOfqizhmTv/builds/QE5eewToEfC8flxMb/openapi.json