Food Product Data Scraper: Barcode & Name Lookup

Look up food products in bulk. Paste a list of barcodes (EAN-13, EAN-8 or UPC-A, straight from a scanner or an inventory export) or product name searches, and get one clean row per product: name, brand, quantity, ingredients, allergens, Nutri-Score, NOVA group, nutrition per 100g and a photo URL.

Built for grocery e-commerce, meal planning and nutrition apps, food bloggers and inventory teams. Scanned a shelf of products? Turn the barcode list into ready-to-use catalogue data in one run, with no signup and no API key.

What you get for each product

• name, brands, quantity and servingSize
• ingredients as written on the label, plus allergens and additives
• nutriScore (A to E), novaGroup (1 to 4, how processed it is) and ecoScore
• nutritionPer100g: calories, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrates, sugars, fiber, proteins, salt
• categories, labels (organic, vegan, fair trade...), countries where it is sold
• imageUrl: a product photo, ready for your listing or app
• productUrl: the product's public page for reference

Example output

{
  "input": "3017624010701",
  "mode": "barcode",
  "found": true,
  "barcode": "3017624010701",
  "name": "Nutella",
  "brands": "Ferrero",
  "quantity": "400 g",
  "categories": ["breakfasts", "spreads", "hazelnut spreads"],
  "allergens": ["milk", "nuts", "soybeans"],
  "nutriScore": "E",
  "novaGroup": 4,
  "nutritionPer100g": { "energyKcal": 539, "fat": 30.9, "sugars": 56.3, "proteins": 6.3, "salt": 0.107 },
  "imageUrl": "https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/301/762/401/0701/front_en.jpg",
  "productUrl": "https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/3017624010701"
}

Barcodes or searches?

• Barcodes: exact, one row per number. EAN-13, EAN-8 and UPC-A all work, dashes and spaces are fine. Mistyped numbers are caught by the check digit before they waste a lookup.
• Searches: free text like "oat milk" or "lindt dark chocolate". Set how many best matches you want per search (default 3).

Pricing

$0.002 per product found. Barcodes and searches that match nothing are free, and the first 2 rows of every run are free. Enriching a 1,000 product inventory costs about $2, versus the monthly minimums of commercial food data APIs.

How to run it via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapemint~food-product-data-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"barcodes": ["3017624010701", "5449000000996"], "searches": ["oat milk"]}'

Frequently asked questions

Where does the data come from? Open Food Facts, the open database of more than 3 million food products, maintained by volunteers worldwide and used by hundreds of nutrition apps. Data is available under the Open Database License (ODbL); database © Open Food Facts contributors.

A barcode I scanned was not found. Very new, very local or store-brand products are sometimes missing from the database. Those rows are free and marked found: false so you can handle them separately.

Some fields are null. Coverage varies by product and country: popular European products tend to be complete, niche items may lack a Nutri-Score or a photo. You are only charged when a product is found at all.

Does it include prices? No. Prices are store-specific and live behind retailer sites; this tool covers the label data (ingredients, nutrition, brand) that catalogues and apps need.

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