Open Food Facts Scraper — Nutrition, NutriScore & Barcodes | from $0.50/1K

Built for nutrition-app developers, food-tech teams, and LLM pipelines that need structured product data by barcode (EAN-13, UPC) or keyword — NutriScore, NOVA group, allergens, and 25+ fields per product. Official Open Food Facts API, no proxy, no auth.

Scrape food product data from Open Food Facts via the official public API. Lookup products by barcode (EAN-13, UPC) or full-text search. Returns a flat, analysis-ready record per product.

What you get per product

Field	Example
barcode	737628064502
product_name	Thai peanut noodle kit
brands	Simply Asia
nutriscore_grade	d
nova_group	4 (1=unprocessed → 4=ultra-processed)
ecoscore_grade	c
energy_kcal_100g	385.0
fat_100g, saturated_fat_100g	7.69, 1.5
sugars_100g, fiber_100g	13.46, 2.1
proteins_100g, salt_100g	8.3, 0.72
ingredients_text	Rice Noodles (rice, water)...
categories	["plant-based-foods", "pastas"]
allergens	["peanuts", "soybeans"]
labels	["organic", "gluten-free"]
countries	["france", "united-states"]
image_url	https://images.openfoodfacts.org/...
url	https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/...
parse_confidence	0.95

Use cases

• Nutrition apps — bulk-import product data by barcode list
• Diet trackers — filter by NutriScore or NOVA group
• Food research — export full ingredient & allergen data for analysis
• Retail / e-commerce — enrich product catalog with nutrition info
• Price comparison apps — add nutritional context to product listings

Input

{
  "barcodes": ["737628064502", "3017620422003"],
  "searchQueries": ["organic yogurt", "gluten free pasta"],
  "maxItems": 200,
  "language": "en",
  "pageSize": 50,
  "skipNotFound": true
}

Why this scraper?

• Official API — no scraping, no blocks, 100% reliable
• Full nutritional panel — competitors return <10 fields; we return 25+
• NutriScore + NOVA + Eco-Score in one record
• Pagination — search results paginated automatically up to maxItems
• Confidence tracking — every record includes parse_confidence and warnings so you know immediately if a product entry is sparse

Pricing

Pay-per-result (PPE): from $0.50 per 1,000 products. No subscription. You pay only for what you extract.

Volume	Cost
100 products	~$0.05
1,000 products	~$0.50
10,000 products	~$5.00

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FAQ

Do I need a proxy or API key? No. Open Food Facts is a public database with no authentication required — zero setup, zero friction.

What output formats are available? JSON, CSV, and Excel — downloadable from the Apify dataset UI or via the REST API.

Can I schedule this to run automatically? Yes. Use Apify's scheduler to keep your product database fresh on a cron schedule, with webhook delivery to your pipeline.

What if a barcode is not found or returns an empty result? With skipNotFound: true (default), missing barcodes are silently skipped. With skipNotFound: false, a stub record with parse_confidence=0 and warnings=["product_not_found"] is emitted — useful for auditing your barcode list.

Data source

Open Food Facts — a free, open, collaborative database of food products from around the world. Licensed under ODBL.

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Use with AI agents (MCP)

This actor is available as an MCP tool for Claude, GPT-4, and other AI agents that support the Model Context Protocol:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=bovi/openfoodfacts-scraper

Pass a barcode or food keyword and get back full nutritional panels — ideal for AI diet assistants, meal-planning apps, and food-labeling pipelines.

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vs. competitors

	This actor	Typical food scraper
Data source	Official Open Food Facts API	HTML scraping / third-party aggregator
NutriScore + NOVA + Eco-Score	✓	Rarely all three
Barcode lookup (EAN-13/UPC)	✓	Sometimes
parse_confidence	✓	No
Proxy needed	No	Often required
Price	from $0.50/1K	$3–10/1K

Integrations

Built for nutrition-app developers and food-tech teams resolving barcodes to NutriScore, allergens, and macro data — the JSON/dataset output drops into the tools you already run, no glue code:

• n8n / Make / Zapier — trigger a run or pipe every new dataset item into 500+ apps (Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, HubSpot, your database) with no code: n8n, Make, Zapier.
• Webhooks — fire your own endpoint the moment a run finishes, to push results straight into your pipeline (docs).
• MCP server — expose this actor as a tool to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client so an AI agent can pull this data mid-conversation (guide).
• API & SDKs — fetch the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel through the Apify REST API or the Python / JS SDKs.

See all Apify integrations.