🍴 UK Food Hygiene Ratings Scraper

🚀 Export the official UK Food Hygiene Rating Scheme in seconds. Filter 500,000+ inspected establishments across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland by name, local authority, business type, or rating. No API key, no registration, no manual CSV wrangling.

The UK Food Hygiene Ratings Scraper exports the Food Standards Agency's national hygiene register and returns 23 structured fields per record, including the business identifier, type, address, postcode, latitude/longitude, three component scores, the headline rating, and the issuing local authority's contact details. The underlying register is the official UK regulatory record used by environmental health officers, delivery platforms, and consumer journalists.

The catalog covers every inspected food business in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, across 411 local authorities and dozens of business categories from restaurants and takeaways to schools, hospitals, mobile caterers, manufacturers, and importers. This Actor delivers the data as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under five minutes.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Food-delivery marketplaces, consumer journalists, local-government analysts, restaurant intelligence teams, public-health researchers, insurance underwriters	Marketplace eligibility screens, "score on the door" widgets, investigative reporting, council-by-council compliance dashboards, restaurant-risk underwriting

📋 What the UK Food Hygiene Ratings Scraper does

Five filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🏪 Business name filter. Free-text partial match (e.g. Tesco, KFC, Pizza Express).
• 🏛️ Local authority filter. 411 council options, from Aberdeen to York.
• 🍽️ Business type filter. Restaurants, takeaways, schools, hospitals, manufacturers, retailers, mobile caterers, and more.
• ⭐ Rating filter. Pull only 5-star sites, or only 0/1-star problem premises.
• 🌐 Multi-filter compound queries. Combine name + council + rating to drill in.

Each record includes FHRS ID, business name and type, headline rating, three component scores (hygiene, structural, management confidence), last-inspection date, address, postcode, lat/lon, scheme type (FHRS for England/Wales/NI, FHIS for Scotland), the new-rating-pending flag, the right-to-reply text, and the issuing local authority's name, code, email, and website.

💡 Why it matters: food hygiene scores drive consumer trust, marketplace listings, insurance premiums, and local government enforcement. Building your own pipeline means handling pagination across 411 councils, two parallel scheme types (FHRS vs FHIS), and field naming drift. This Actor skips all of that.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: address, businessName, businessType, businessTypeId, confidenceInManagementScore, fhrsId, hygieneScore, latitude, localAuthorityCode, localAuthorityEmail, localAuthorityName, localAuthorityWebsite, longitude, newRatingPending, postCode, ratingDate, ratingKey, ratingValue, rightToReply, schemeType, scrapedAt, structuralScore. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the UK Food Hygiene Ratings Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a council, business type, or rating threshold, and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the UK Food Standards Agency, any local authority, or any rated business. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available UK Open Government Licence data is collected.

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