UK Food Hygiene Ratings Scraper — FSA Establishments

What this Actor scrapes

The FSA publishes a hygiene rating for every food business in the UK, which makes it one of the few open datasets with a name, an address and a phone number for hundreds of thousands of hospitality venues. The API is fussy — it needs a version header, refuses unfiltered queries outright, and splits the address across four numbered fields. This Actor handles all three and hands back one clean row per establishment.

What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — the target sees a real browser TLS handshake, not a script.
• 🌐 Proxy rotation — fresh exit on every block through Apify Proxy.
• 🔁 Retries with backoff — 408 / 429 / 5xx retried up to five times, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧊 Clean, typed rows — schema-validated output with ISO-8601 timestamps.
• 💰 Pay per result — no data, no result charge.

Use cases

• Build a hospitality prospect list with names, addresses and phone numbers by council area.
• Screen suppliers or franchise sites against their current hygiene rating.
• Track rating changes across a chain or a town over time.
• Map food businesses in a catchment area using the published coordinates.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "businessName": "cafe",
  "maxResults": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

fhrs_idbusiness_namebusiness_typerating_valuerating_dateaddresspostcodephonelocal_authoritylocal_authority_websitelatitudelongitudescheme_type

{}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.

Limitations

• Returns the current rating only — the API does not expose full inspection history.
• Phone numbers and coordinates are published for most but not all establishments.