Restaurant Health Inspections - NYC, Chicago, Austin

Recent restaurant health inspections from official city open data in New York City, Chicago and Austin - with results, scores, grades and violation details.

Popular searches this Actor covers: restaurant inspection data, health inspection scraper, NYC restaurant grades, failed health inspections list, food safety violations data.

What can you use it for?

• Pest control, cleaning and food-safety consultants (target failed inspections)
• Restaurant tech and supplier sales
• Journalists and food bloggers
• Consumer apps and research

Quick start (one click)

Press Start - the default input returns results in about a minute for a few cents. Example input:

{
  "cities": [
    "new-york",
    "chicago"
  ],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "onlyFailed": false,
  "maxItemsPerCity": 20
}

Example output

city	businessName	inspectionDate	result	score	violationCount
New York	SMILING PIZZA	2026-10-27	Violations cited	12	2
New York	FIFTH AVE DINER	2026-10-27	Violations cited	13	3
New York	CLEARY GOTTLIEB	2026-10-27	Violations cited	11	3

Full records contain more fields (see the Output / Dataset tab). Download as CSV, Excel, JSON or use the Apify API, schedules and integrations (Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, webhooks).

Pricing

Pay only for what you get (pay per event):

• $0.003 per inspection returned
• $0.005 per run start

Examples: 100 inspections = $0.305; 1,000 inspections = $3.00. Apify free plan credits cover small runs.

FAQ

Can I get only failed inspections? Yes - set onlyFailed to true.

Cities? New York, Chicago, Austin.

Is this legal? It collects publicly available data only. You are responsible for using it in line with applicable laws (e.g. CAN-SPAM, GDPR, TCPA) and the source's terms.

Can I schedule it? Yes - use Apify Schedules to run it daily and get new records automatically, then send them to Google Sheets, Slack or your CRM via integrations.

Need a custom field, source or done-for-you list? Open an issue on the Issues tab - feature requests are welcome.

Technical details

The latest restaurant and food-business health inspections from official city open data, with one clean row per inspection: result, score, grade, closure status and the full list of violations. In NYC each violation is a separate source row; they're merged per inspection.

Who uses it: pest control (violations like mice, roaches and flies), food-safety consultants and trainers, commercial cleaning, kitchen equipment repair, grease trap services, POS and restaurant software, local journalists and food-delivery platforms.

Sources

City	Dataset	Notes
New York City	data.cityofnewyork.us 43nn-pn8j DOHMH inspections	Score, grade, critical flags, phone, cuisine; updated daily
Chicago	data.cityofchicago.org 4ijn-s7e5 Food Inspections	Pass/Fail result, risk level, facility type, violation comments; updated daily
Austin, TX	data.austintexas.gov ecmv-9xxi Inspection Scores	Score only; published with a ~4-5 week delay (not in the default cities)

Output

city, state, inspectionId, businessName, akaName, licenseNumber, facilityType (NYC cuisine or Chicago facility type), address, borough, zip, phone (NYC), inspectionDate, inspectionType, result, failed, score, grade, riskLevel, violationCount, criticalViolationCount (NYC), violations (code, description, critical or comments), latitude, longitude, source.

failed is true when NYC closed the establishment or the score is 28+ (C range; in NYC a higher score is worse), when Chicago's result is Fail, or when Austin's score is under 70.

{"city": "New York", "businessName": "XIN LI", "facilityType": "Chinese", "address": "801 59 STREET", "borough": "Brooklyn", "phone": "(718) 851-8086",
 "inspectionDate": "2026-10-27", "result": "Violations cited", "score": 12, "grade": "A", "violationCount": 3, "criticalViolationCount": 1,
 "violations": [{"code": "04N", "description": "Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage associated with (FRSA) flies ...", "critical": true}]}

Input

Field	Default	Notes
cities	new-york, chicago	Add austin for Austin scores
daysBack	7
dateFrom / dateTo	-	Exact inspection-date range
onlyFailed	false	Only failed or closed inspections (see above)
facilityTypeKeyword	-	e.g. Pizza, Bakery, Grocery (NYC and Chicago)
maxItemsPerCity	20	Newest first

Pricing

Pay per result: one result event per inspection.