Open Food Facts Scraper

Pull structured food-product data from Open Food Facts at scale — nutrition facts, ingredients, allergens, Nutri-Score, Eco-Score, NOVA processing group, dietary flags, and product images for millions of packaged foods worldwide. Search by keyword, narrow by category, brand, country, label, or Nutri-Score, or look up exact products by barcode. Built for nutrition-app builders, dietitians, and CPG market researchers who need a clean, structured product-and-nutrition dataset without building and maintaining their own scraper.

Why This Scraper?

• Over 3 million food products — the world's largest open food database, searchable by keyword across product names and brands, with server-side pagination up to any volume you set.
• Complete Nutri-Score, Eco-Score, and NOVA classification — every row carries the A–E Nutri-Score nutritional grade, the A–E Eco-Score environmental grade, and the 1–4 NOVA food-processing group.
• Full nutriments object — per-100g and per-serving energy, fat, saturated fat, sugars, salt, proteins, fiber, and more, exactly as Open Food Facts records them.
• Allergen tags and complete ingredient lists — detected allergens as a clean array plus the full ingredients text for every product.
• Three diet-analysis flags — vegan, vegetarian, and palm-oil status returned as yes / no / maybe / unknown, derived from ingredient analysis.
• Eight certified-label filters — narrow to Organic, Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten-free, Fair-Trade, No palm oil, Kosher, or Halal, applied by Open Food Facts directly so you never pay for non-matching rows.
• Direct barcode lookup — paste product URLs or bare barcodes (e.g. 3017620422003) and get exact-match records back, fetched in parallel.
• Three product images per record — front, nutrition-facts panel, and ingredients-panel image URLs.
• Six sort orders — popularity, product name, newest, recently edited, best Nutri-Score, or best Eco-Score.

Use Cases

Nutrition & Diet Apps

• Power calorie- and macro-tracking apps with per-100g nutriments
• Build allergen-aware meal planners using the allergens array
• Filter to vegan, vegetarian, or gluten-free products for diet-specific catalogs
• Surface Nutri-Score grades to help users compare healthier options

CPG & Market Research

• Benchmark a brand's portfolio Nutri-Score against competitors
• Map product assortments by category and country
• Track NOVA processing levels across a product segment
• Analyze packaging and quantity formats within a category

Retail & E-commerce

• Enrich product catalogs with nutrition facts, ingredients, and images
• Fill missing barcodes with canonical product data
• Add Eco-Score and label badges to storefront listings
• Standardize product names and brand fields across suppliers

Health & Research

• Study nutritional trends across regions and categories
• Build datasets for public-health nutrition studies
• Compare ingredient and additive prevalence across brands
• Track reformulation over time using added and last-edited dates

Compliance & Labeling

• Verify allergen declarations against ingredient lists
• Audit label claims such as Organic, Fair-Trade, and No palm oil
• Check palm-oil presence across a supply chain
• Cross-reference country availability for market-specific labeling

Getting Started

Simple keyword search

{
    "searchQuery": "chocolate",
    "maxResults": 100
}

Filtered search

Narrow a category to a single Nutri-Score and certified label:

{
    "searchQuery": "breakfast cereals",
    "category": "Breakfast cereals",
    "nutritionGrade": "a",
    "label": "organic",
    "sortBy": "best_nutriscore",
    "maxResults": 200
}

Barcode lookup

Fetch exact products by URL or bare barcode:

{
    "productUrls": [
        "https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/3017620422003",
        "5449000000996"
    ]
}

Input Reference

What to Scrape

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	"chocolate"	Word or phrase to search across product names and brands. Leave blank to browse by the filters below instead.
productUrls	array	[]	Open Food Facts product page URLs or bare barcodes (e.g. 3017620422003). When set, these products are fetched directly and the search term and filters are ignored.

Filters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
category	string	""	Only include products in this category (e.g. "Breakfast cereals", "Sodas", "Snacks"). Leave blank for any category.
brand	string	""	Only include products from this brand (e.g. "Nestlé", "Coca-Cola", "Alpro"). Leave blank for any brand.
country	string	""	Only include products sold in this country (e.g. "France", "United States", "Germany"). Leave blank for any country.
label	select	(any)	Only include products carrying this label: Organic, Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten-free, Fair-Trade, No palm oil, Kosher, or Halal.
nutritionGrade	select	(any)	Only include products with this Nutri-Score grade: A (healthiest) through E (least healthy).

Options

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
sortBy	select	Popularity (most scanned)	Result order: Popularity, Product name (A–Z), Newest first, Recently edited, Best Nutri-Score first, or Best Eco-Score first.
maxResults	integer	100	Hard cap on the total number of products to collect. Increase for bigger runs, or set to 0 for no cap. Ignored when specific product URLs or barcodes are provided.

Output

Each product is one flat row. Here's a representative result:

{
    "barcode": "3017620422003",
    "productName": "Nutella",
    "brands": "Ferrero",
    "categories": "Spreads, Sweet spreads, Hazelnut spreads, Chocolate spreads",
    "quantity": "400 g",
    "packaging": "Glass jar, Plastic lid",
    "countries": "France, Germany, United States",
    "labels": "No gluten, Palm oil",
    "ingredientsText": "Sugar, palm oil, hazelnuts 13%, skimmed milk powder 8.7%, fat-reduced cocoa 7.4%...",
    "allergens": ["milk", "nuts", "soybeans"],
    "nutritionGrade": "e",
    "novaGroup": 4,
    "ecoScoreGrade": "d",
    "nutriments": {
        "energy-kcal_100g": 539,
        "fat_100g": 30.9,
        "saturated-fat_100g": 10.6,
        "sugars_100g": 56.3,
        "salt_100g": 0.107,
        "proteins_100g": 6.3
    },
    "isVegan": "no",
    "isVegetarian": "yes",
    "containsPalmOil": "yes",
    "imageUrl": "https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/301/762/042/2003/front_en.jpg",
    "imageNutritionUrl": "https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/301/762/042/2003/nutrition_en.jpg",
    "imageIngredientsUrl": "https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/301/762/042/2003/ingredients_en.jpg",
    "createdAt": "2015-05-16T09:20:00+00:00",
    "lastModifiedAt": "2026-03-11T14:52:07+00:00",
    "url": "https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/3017620422003"
}

Core Fields

Field	Type	Description
barcode	string	Product barcode (Open Food Facts product code)
productName	string	Product name
brands	string	Comma-separated brand names
categories	string	Comma-separated product categories
quantity	string	Net quantity (e.g. "400 g")
packaging	string	Packaging description
countries	string	Countries where the product is sold
url	string	Canonical Open Food Facts product page URL

Nutrition & Ingredients

Field	Type	Description
nutritionGrade	string	Nutri-Score grade, A (healthiest) to E
novaGroup	integer	NOVA food-processing group, 1 (unprocessed) to 4 (ultra-processed)
ecoScoreGrade	string	Eco-Score environmental grade, A to E
nutriments	object	Per-100g and per-serving nutrient values (energy, fat, sugars, salt, proteins, and more)
ingredientsText	string	Full ingredients list text
allergens	array	Detected allergens (e.g. milk, nuts, gluten)

Labels & Diet

Field	Type	Description
labels	string	Labels and certifications (Organic, Vegan, Fair-Trade, and more)
isVegan	string	Vegan status: yes / no / maybe / unknown
isVegetarian	string	Vegetarian status: yes / no / maybe / unknown
containsPalmOil	string	Palm-oil status: yes / no / maybe / unknown

Images & Metadata

Field	Type	Description
imageUrl	string	Front product image URL
imageNutritionUrl	string	Nutrition-facts panel image URL
imageIngredientsUrl	string	Ingredients panel image URL
createdAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp the product was added
lastModifiedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of the last edit

Tips for Best Results

• Barcode lookup is exact and fastest — when you already know the products, paste URLs or bare barcodes into productUrls; it returns exact matches and skips search entirely.
• Broaden filters if a combo returns nothing — stacking category, brand, country, label, and Nutri-Score narrows results fast. If you get zero rows, drop the tightest filter or check spelling.
• Sort by "Recently edited" for the freshest data — Open Food Facts is community-maintained, so recently edited products tend to have the most complete nutrition and label fields.
• Combine a keyword with filters — searchQuery plus a category and Nutri-Score is the sharpest way to find, for example, healthier options in a single aisle.
• Use the label filter for diet catalogs — filtering to Vegan, Gluten-free, or Organic returns only matching products, so you never sift through or pay for irrelevant rows.
• Start small, then scale — run with maxResults at 50–100 first to confirm the fields match your needs, then raise the cap for a full pull.
• Expect data gaps on niche products — community coverage is deepest on popular items; some rare products may have empty nutrition or image fields, which is a genuine gap in the source rather than a missed extraction.

Pricing

From $7 per 1,000 results — undercuts comparable food-product scrapers while returning a richer, fully structured record. No compute or time-based charges — you pay per result, plus a small fixed per-run start fee. Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers pay progressively less; the table below shows total cost at each discount tier.

Results	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$0.84	$0.79	$0.75	$0.70
1,000	$8.40	$7.90	$7.45	$7.00
10,000	$84.00	$79.00	$74.50	$70.00
100,000	$840.00	$790.00	$745.00	$700.00

A "result" is any product row in the output dataset. Platform fees depend on your Apify plan and are additional.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor collects data from Open Food Facts, an open and collaborative food-products database published under the Open Database License (ODbL). That open license makes the data especially friendly for reuse — but you remain responsible for complying with the ODbL's attribution and share-alike terms, along with applicable laws and Open Food Facts' terms of use. Use the data responsibly, credit Open Food Facts where required, and do not present it in a way that misrepresents product safety or nutrition.