Open Food Facts Scraper - Food Product & Nutrition Data

Search Open Food Facts - the open database of 3M+ food products - or look up barcodes, and get clean rows for every product: name, brands, categories, Nutri-Score, NOVA group, Eco-Score, ingredients, allergens, additives and per-100g nutrition (energy, fat, saturated fat, sugars, salt, protein, fiber). Built on the official API - no key, no browser.

What you get per product

Field	Meaning
code / productName / brands / quantity	Barcode, name, brands and pack size
categories / labels / countries / stores	Categorisation and where it is sold
nutriscoreGrade / novaGroup / ecoscoreGrade	Nutrition & processing & environmental grades
ingredientsText / allergens / additives	Ingredients, allergen tags and E-number additives
energyKcal100g / fat100g / saturatedFat100g / sugars100g / salt100g / proteins100g / fiber100g	Per-100g nutrition
imageUrl / url / source	Product image, page link, and search vs barcode

Input

{ "searchQueries": ["oat milk"], "maxItemsPerQuery": 50 }

• Search terms - product searches, one per line. Barcodes - exact EAN/UPC lookups.
• Import from a file - paste a list, or link a public .txt/.csv, a Google Sheet/Drive link, or an Apify key-value-store record (terms and barcodes auto-detected). Output fields trim every record.

Leave everything empty and the run returns a small free sample so you can see the shape first.

Reliability

Barcode lookups use the Open Food Facts v2 API, text search uses the dedicated search service - both public, keyless, no anti-bot. A search that returns nothing, or a barcode that is not in the database, bills $0.

Honest limits

• Open Food Facts is crowd-sourced, so completeness varies by product - popular branded items are rich; obscure or regional products may have sparse nutrition or no image. That is the data's nature, not a gap.
• Search returns summary fields; barcode lookup returns full detail. Text search gives name, brands, categories, Nutri-Score, NOVA and key nutriments; ingredients, additives, labels and quantity are fullest on a barcode lookup - pass the barcode (or re-look-up the returned code) when you need them.
• Nutri-Score / NOVA / Eco-Score are present only where computed for that product.
• Per-100g nutrition fields are null when the contributor did not enter them - an honest null.

Pricing

$0.001 per product on the FREE tier (tiered pricing lowers it with volume). Only products actually saved are billed; empty searches and not-found barcodes cost nothing.

Output views

• Products - barcode, name, brands, Nutri-Score, NOVA, kcal & sugars per 100g, categories.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

Available through the Apify MCP server - an agent can resolve a barcode to nutrition facts, screen a product list for allergens, or build a category's nutrition dataset in one call.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready - AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 - an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server - no account, no API key.
• Skyfire - agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.