UK Food Hygiene Ratings Scraper: FSA & New Restaurant Leads

Search official FSA food hygiene ratings across the UK and get leads for newly registered restaurants, takeaways and cafés.

Who it's for

• Suppliers (food, drink, EPOS, cleaning, insurance) selling to new restaurants
• Delivery platforms and local directories finding new venues
• Journalists and councils tracking low or changed hygiene ratings

Sample output

businessName	businessType	postcode	localAuthority	ratingValue
Usman Halal Meat	Retailers - other	E12 5JR	Newham	1
Bargain World	Retailers - other	E6 1HZ	Newham	2
Jay's General Stores	Retailers - other	E16 3HX	Newham	1

Real rows from a test run (shortened; the full output has more fields).

Price per 1,000 results

Main event: establishment-row at $0.002 each, so 1,000 results = $2.00. Other events: new-business-lead $0.005, rating-change $0.01 each (only charged when that row type is output). See the Pricing tab for the current prices.

Input example

{
  "mode": "search",
  "localAuthorities": [
    "Westminster"
  ],
  "maxResults": 50
}

Search every UK food business in the official Food Standards Agency (FSA) Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, and get a feed of newly opened restaurants, takeaways and cafés. Filter by council, postcode radius, business type, hygiene rating or name. The actor also outputs new-business leads (newly listed, or newly awaiting inspection) and rating-change alerts for the premises you watch. Official FSA API, no key, no scraping.

Mode	What you get
🔎 search	Establishments by council, postcode and radius, type, rating range (0-5) or name, with address, postcode, rating and rating date, inspection sub-scores and coordinates
🆕 new_businesses	Since your last run: newly listed food businesses and businesses that are newly awaiting inspection, usually new openings and changes of ownership. These are fresh sales leads
🔔 rating_changes	Alerts when a watched establishment's rating changes, with old and new rating, the dates and up/down direction

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What you get

• Every UK food business in the FSA Food Hygiene Rating Scheme: name, type, address, postcode, council, rating, rating date, inspection sub-scores and coordinates
• New-business leads: restaurants, takeaways and cafés that were newly listed or are newly awaiting their first inspection
• Rating-change alerts for the premises you watch, with old and new rating
• Filters by council, postcode radius, business type, rating range and name
• Export to CSV, Excel or JSON, or feed a CRM through the Apify API, Make or Zapier

Who uses it

• Suppliers to restaurants and takeaways: food and drink wholesalers, EPOS and card terminals, delivery platforms, packaging, waste, pest control, insurance, signage and recruitment. Reach new openings first.
• Food safety consultants and trainers: premises rated 0-2, and new businesses awaiting their first inspection.
• Landlords, investors, franchise and brand owners: monitor the hygiene ratings of your sites, tenants or franchisees.
• Delivery apps, review sites and journalists: bulk ratings data by area.

Input

Field	Example	Notes
Mode	search	or new_businesses, rating_changes
Local authorities	["Westminster","Camden"]	Council names or FSA IDs
Postcode + radius	SW1A 1AA, 1	Miles
Business types	["restaurant","takeaway"]	Also pub, hotel, mobile caterer, supermarket, retailer, school, hospital
Name contains	pizza
Min / max rating	0 / 2	0-5 (FHRS)
Only awaiting inspection	true
Watched FHRS IDs	["1898711"]	rating_changes mode
Monitor name	london-leads	Separate saved state per name
Max results	50	0 = no limit

Example: a weekly lead feed of new restaurants and takeaways in Manchester

{ "mode": "new_businesses", "localAuthorities": ["Manchester"], "businessTypes": ["restaurant","takeaway"], "monitorName": "manchester" }

Example output (real sample)

recordType	businessName	businessType	postcode	localAuthority	ratingValue
newBusiness	10 Dining Street	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	LE15 6BA	Rutland	5
newBusiness	A Simpler Life	Retailers - other	LE15 9QB	Rutland	5
newBusiness	All You Can Treat	Retailers - other	LE15	Rutland	AwaitingInspection

Output (new business lead)

{
  "recordType": "newBusiness",
  "leadReason": "newly_listed",
  "fhrsId": 1153550,
  "businessName": "10 Dining Street",
  "businessType": "Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen",
  "address": "8 New Street, Oakham",
  "postcode": "LE15 6BA",
  "localAuthority": "Rutland",
  "ratingValue": "5",
  "ratingDate": "2025-03-05",
  "fsaUrl": "https://ratings.food.gov.uk/business/1153550"
}

Pricing (pay per event)

In plain words: $2 per 1,000 establishments in search mode, $5 per 1,000 new-business leads, and $10 per 1,000 rating-change alerts. A weekly new-openings feed for one city usually costs well under $1.

Event	Price
establishment-row: each search result	$0.002
new-business-lead: each new-business lead	$0.005
rating-change: each rating-change alert	$0.01

The first run of a monitor saves a baseline and is not charged per row.

Notes

• Scotland uses FHIS (Pass / Improvement Required) instead of 0-5. Those values are kept as published.
• The FSA withholds addresses for some premises, such as home-based businesses. We output what the FSA publishes, and no more.
• Requests are paced to respect the FSA API.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? The official Food Standards Agency (FSA) ratings API, the same data as ratings.food.gov.uk.

How do I get new restaurant leads? Run new_businesses mode on a schedule (e.g. weekly) for your councils and business types. The first run saves a baseline and later runs return only new openings.

Does it cover Scotland? Yes. Scotland uses FHIS (Pass / Improvement Required) instead of 0–5, and values are kept as published.

Do I need an API key? No.

Is it legal to use? Yes. FSA data is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains public sector information from the Food Standards Agency, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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