You can access the NYC Restaurant Inspection Snapshot programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

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OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "buyerQuery": "buyer-ready records with source evidence",
10    "taskIntent": "buyer-ready-product-run",
11    "sourceMode": "startUrls",
12    "outputMode": "buyer-ready-records",
13    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/43nn-pn8j.json" }],
14    "maxItems": 1,
15    "perSourceLimit": 25,
16    "overallTimeoutSecs": 900,
17    "requestTimeoutSecs": 30,
18    "maxRequestRetries": 2,
19    "sinceLastRun": False,
20    "deltaMode": True,
21}
22
23# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
24run = client.actor("zentrafoundry/restaurant-health-inspection-delta-tracker").call(run_input=run_input)
25
26# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
27print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
28for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
29    print(item)
30
31# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

NYC restaurant inspections — snapshot, not a delta API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use NYC Restaurant Inspection Snapshot API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

NYC Restaurant Inspection Snapshot API in JavaScript

NYC Restaurant Inspection Snapshot API through CLI

NYC Restaurant Inspection Snapshot OpenAPI definition

NYC Restaurant Inspection Snapshot API

NYC Restaurant Inspection Scraper

crawlerbros/nyc-restaurant-inspection-scraper

Scrape the official NYC DOHMH Restaurant Inspection Results open dataset. Search or filter by borough, cuisine, grade, inspection type, critical flag, ZIP code, or date range; look up a restaurant's full inspection history by CAMIS ID. Free public Socrata API, no login required.

Crawler Bros

NYC Restaurant Health Inspection Scraper

usta/nyc-restaurant-inspection-scraper

Every NYC DOHMH restaurant health inspection violation in a date window: business name, address, borough, inspection date, score, letter grade, and violation detail. Read live from NYC Open Data on every run.

US Tech Automations

Nyc Restaurant Inspections

quarterly_jingo/nyc-restaurant-inspections

Petey Boy

NYC Restaurant Inspections Scraper

parseforge/nyc-restaurant-inspections-scraper

Scrapes NYC restaurant inspection records from the Department of Health. Returns each inspection as a flat row with grade, score, violations, and date. Filter by borough and letter grade.

ParseForge

NYC Restaurant Health Inspection Scraper

copious_atoll/nyc-restaurant-inspections

Extract NYC restaurant health inspection data. Search by name, borough, cuisine, zip code, or grade. Returns violations, scores, grades, inspection dates, and GPS coordinates. 296K+ records from NYC Open Data.

Grim R

NYC Restaurant Health Inspections Scraper

fortuitous_pirate/nyc-restaurant-inspections

Search NYC restaurant health inspection grades and violations. Get grades, inspection dates, and violation details. For food safety research.

Fortuitous Pirate

Restaurant Health Inspection Scraper - NYC, Chicago, Austin

punkrecordsdata/restaurant-health-inspection-aggregator

Restaurant health inspections, violations and restaurant profiles across NYC, Chicago and Austin, normalized into one dataset. Export to CSV, Excel, JSON.

PunkRecordsData

NYC Restaurant Inspections — Grades, Scores, Violations

opaldata/nyc-restaurant-inspections

Extract NYC restaurant health inspection data from official DOHMH open data. Get grades, scores, violations, cuisine types, and GPS coordinates. Filter by borough, cuisine, grade, date, or zip code. No browser or proxy needed.

Orestis Palampougioukis

US Restaurant Inspections Scraper

straightforward_hydra/us-restaurant-inspections-scraper

Restaurant & food health-inspection results from major US city open-data portals (NYC, Chicago, SF, Seattle, Austin). No key.

Dev D

US Restaurant Health Inspection Scores

filingradar/us-restaurant-inspections

Restaurant & food-establishment health inspections from public city open-data (NYC + Chicago), normalized to one schema with result, letter grade, score, critical flags, and geocode. One row per inspection. Public data only.

Filing Radar