Open Food Facts Scraper - Food Product & Nutrition Data

Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Open Food Facts or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. "Open Food Facts" is referenced only to describe the publicly available website this Actor collects data from.

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.

Automate & schedule

Run this Actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API - start runs, fetch datasets and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python - official SDKs.
• Schedules - run it hourly, daily or weekly and keep your dataset current.
• Webhooks - trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/openfoodfacts-scraper').call({
    "searchQueries": [
        "nutella"
    ],
    "maxItemsPerQuery": 25
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} records`);

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to thousands of apps - no code required:

• Make - multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier - push new records straight into your CRM or spreadsheet.
• Slack - get notified when a scheduled run finds something new.
• Google Drive / Sheets - auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte - pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub - trigger runs from commits or releases.

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FAQ

How is this Actor billed? Pay-per-event: you pay only for the results it delivers, with no monthly rental and no start fee. The per-event price is shown on the Pricing tab.

Can I schedule it and get results automatically? Yes - create a Schedule and add a webhook or an integration (Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier) to push each run's dataset wherever you need it.

Which export formats are available? Every run's dataset can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, HTML or RSS from the Apify Console or the API.

Can I run it from code or an AI agent? Yes - through the Apify API and client libraries, or from Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants via the Apify MCP server.

Is it legal to scrape Open Food Facts? This Actor collects publicly available data only. You are responsible for using the output in compliance with applicable laws (including data-protection law where personal data is involved) and the source's terms. See the Disclaimer below.

Is this an official Open Food Facts tool? No. It is an independent, third-party Actor with no affiliation to, endorsement by or sponsorship from Open Food Facts. See the Disclaimer below.

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Open Food Facts or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

"Open Food Facts" and any related marks are the property of their respective owners and are used here only in a descriptive, nominative sense - to identify the publicly accessible website from which this Actor collects data. This Actor is not an official Open Food Facts product, is not authorised or certified by Open Food Facts, and does not distribute Open Food Facts software. It collects only publicly available information; you are responsible for ensuring your use of that data complies with applicable laws, regulations and the terms of the source website.

Need help?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests are welcome - this Actor is actively maintained.