🥗 Open Food Facts Scraper

Whether you're a nutrition researcher analyzing food products, a health app developer building ingredient databases, or a consumer advocate tracking food quality, this tool makes it easy to collect structured food product data from the world's largest open food database.

The Open Food Facts Scraper collects food products with names, brands, ingredients, nutritional values, Nutri-Score grades, NOVA groups, allergens, labels, and packaging data. Filter by category, country, nutritional grade, and more.

✨ What Does It Do

• 🥫 Product data - collect product names, brands, quantities, serving sizes, and barcodes
• 🏅 Nutri-Score grades - get A through E nutritional quality ratings for each product
• 🍎 Full nutrient profiles - extract calories, fat, saturated fat, carbs, sugars, fiber, protein, and salt per 100g
• 🏭 NOVA groups - see food processing levels from 1 (unprocessed) to 4 (ultra-processed)
• ⚠️ Allergen data - get allergen tags, traces, and ingredient lists for each product
• 🌍 Country and label filters - search products by country of sale and certification labels

🔧 Input

• Category - filter products by food category (e.g., 'chocolate', 'pizza', 'yogurt')
• Max Items - how many products to collect (free users get 10 items, paid users up to 1,000,000)
• Search Query - optional text search within the category
• Country - filter by country: United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, or Italy
• Nutri-Score - filter by nutritional grade (A is healthiest, E is least healthy)
• NOVA Group - filter by processing level (1 is unprocessed, 4 is ultra-processed)
• Sort By - sort by popularity, product name, or date created

{
    "category": "chocolate",
    "maxItems": 50,
    "country": "us",
    "nutriscore": "a"
}

📊 Output

Each product record includes up to 30+ data fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Field	Description
🔗 url	Product page on Open Food Facts
🖼️ imageUrl	Product photo
📋 productName	Product name
🏷️ brands	Brand name
🗂️ categories	Product categories
📏 quantity	Package quantity/size
🏅 nutriscore	Nutri-Score grade (A-E)
🏭 novaGroup	NOVA processing group (1-4)
🌿 ecoscore	Eco-Score environmental grade
📝 ingredients	Full ingredient list
🔢 nutriments	Nutritional values per 100g
⚠️ allergens	Allergen information
🏷️ labels	Certification labels (organic, etc.)
🌍 countries	Countries where sold

{
    "id": "7622210449283",
    "productName": "Milka Alpine Milk",
    "brands": "Milka",
    "categories": "Snacks, Sweet snacks, Chocolates",
    "quantity": "100 g",
    "nutriscore": "e",
    "nutriscoreScore": 26,
    "novaGroup": 4,
    "ecoscore": "d",
    "ingredients": "Sugar, cocoa butter, skimmed milk powder...",
    "nutriments": {
        "energy_kcal": 530,
        "fat": 29.5,
        "saturatedFat": 18,
        "carbohydrates": 59,
        "sugars": 58,
        "fiber": 1.9,
        "proteins": 6.3,
        "salt": 0.3
    },
    "allergens": "en:milk, en:soybeans",
    "labels": "Green Dot",
    "countries": "France, Germany, Belgium",
    "imageUrl": "https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/...",
    "url": "https://world.openfoodfacts.net/product/7622210449283",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}

💎 Why Choose the Open Food Facts Scraper?

Feature	Our Tool	Manual Browsing
Batch collection	✅ Up to 1M products	❌ Browse one at a time
Nutritional data	✅ Full nutrient profiles	⚠️ Click each product
Multiple filters	✅ Category, country, Nutri-Score, NOVA	⚠️ Limited search
Structured output	✅ JSON, CSV, Excel	❌ Web pages only
Automated scheduling	✅ Daily/weekly monitoring	❌ Manual visits
Allergen data	✅ Included automatically	⚠️ Buried in details

📋 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Configure - set your food category, country, nutritional filters, and how many products you want
3. Run It - click "Start" and get structured food data in seconds

No coding, no setup, no manual browsing required.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 🔬 Nutrition researchers - analyze nutritional profiles across food categories and brands at scale
• 📱 Health app developers - build food databases with Nutri-Score, NOVA groups, and allergen data
• 🏪 Retailers - compare product nutritional quality and sourcing across brands and countries
• 🏥 Dietitians - create evidence-based food guides with detailed ingredient and nutrient data
• 📊 Market analysts - track food industry trends in nutrition, labeling, and product formulation
• 🌿 Environmental researchers - study Eco-Score data and packaging materials across product categories

❓ FAQ

🥗 What is Open Food Facts? Open Food Facts is a free, open-source database of food products from around the world. It contains over 3 million products with nutritional information, ingredients, labels, and packaging data.

🏅 What is Nutri-Score? Nutri-Score is a nutrition label system that grades food from A (best nutritional quality) to E (least favorable). It considers calories, sugar, saturated fat, sodium, fiber, protein, and fruit/vegetable content.

🏭 What are NOVA groups? NOVA classifies food by processing level: 1 (unprocessed or minimally processed), 2 (processed culinary ingredients), 3 (processed foods), and 4 (ultra-processed food products).

🌍 Which countries are covered? Open Food Facts covers products from over 180 countries. You can filter by United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, or search all countries.

⚠️ Is allergen data reliable? Allergen data comes from product labels and community contributions. Always verify critical allergen information against the actual product packaging.

🔗 Integrate Open Food Facts Scraper with any app

• Make - Automate food data workflows
• Zapier - Get alerts for new products matching your criteria
• Slack - Get notified in your team channel
• Google Drive - Export food data to spreadsheets
• Webhooks - Trigger actions when runs complete

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Open Food Facts or its contributors. It accesses only publicly available data.