🥫 Open Food Facts Scraper

🚀 Export 3M+ grocery products with ingredients, NutriScore, allergens, and nutrition in seconds.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-26 · 📊 20 fields per record · 3M+ products · 200+ countries · 20+ structured fields

This Apify Actor extracts structured data from Open Food Facts, returning clean JSON / CSV / Excel / XML datasets ready for analytics, integrations, or research workflows. Built by ParseForge for reliability and freshness.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Data analysts, engineers, researchers	Analytics pipelines, BI dashboards, datasets
SaaS, fintech, marketing, ops teams	Lead gen, enrichment, monitoring
Hobbyists, journalists, indie devs	Side projects, content, exploration

📋 What the Open Food Facts Scraper does

• Queries the public Open Food Facts API / feed and structures the response
• Returns one record per item with 20 normalized fields
• Supports filters configurable from the input schema
• Outputs to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML via Apify dataset
• Auto-limits to 10 items on the free plan; up to 1,000,000 on paid

💡 Why it matters: clean, ready-to-query data without manual scraping, parsing, or babysitting an API client.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
maxItems	integer	No	Max items to return (free: 10, paid: 1,000,000)

{ "maxItems": 50 }

{ "maxItems": 1000 }

⚠️ Good to Know: the free plan caps results at 10 items per run. Upgrade to a paid plan to unlock the full dataset.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🔹 code	string	Open Food Facts code field
🔹 product_name	string	Open Food Facts product_name field
🔹 brands	string	Open Food Facts brands field
🔹 nutriscore_grade	string	Open Food Facts nutriscore_grade field
🔹 categories	string	Open Food Facts categories field
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of when the record was collected
❌ error	string	null

{
  "code": "...",
  "product_name": "...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-26T00:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

Differentiator	Benefit
🟢 Real-time public data	Always fresh, never cached
🟢 Structured output	Ready for BI, Excel, SQL imports
🟢 Pay-per-result pricing	Pay only for actual data collected
🟢 Apify-hosted runs	No servers, no maintenance
🟢 Free tier preview	Test with 10 items before scaling

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Method	Setup time	Reliability	Maintenance	Cost
Manual scripting	Hours	Medium	High	Dev time
Generic web scrapers	Hours	Low	High	Variable
This Actor	30 seconds	High	None	Pay-per-result

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 credit
2. Open this Actor and click Try for free
3. Configure the input (maxItems and any filters)
4. Click Start
5. Download the dataset as CSV / Excel / JSON / XML

💼 Business use cases

📊 Analytics & BI — feed Open Food Facts records into Looker, Tableau, Metabase for live dashboards.

🧠 Data enrichment — append Open Food Facts fields to your CRM / CDP records for better targeting.

🔍 Monitoring — schedule daily runs to detect new records, changes, or anomalies.

🤖 ML training data — use structured Open Food Facts data as features in models or test fixtures.

🔌 Automating Open Food Facts Scraper

Connect via Apify integrations: Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Discord, Airbyte, Google Drive, Google Sheets, GitHub, Webhook, REST API.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🔬 Research — academics, journalists, policy researchers building public datasets.

🎨 Personal — hobbyists tracking favorite topics, building personal projects, exploring data.

🤝 Non-profit — NGOs, civic-tech, open-data initiatives needing structured Open Food Facts extracts.

🧪 Experimentation — students, builders, indie devs prototyping with real-world data.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Drop a link to this page into ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Copilot and ask: "What can I do with the Open Food Facts Scraper?"

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Is the data fresh? Yes. Every run queries Open Food Facts in real time. No cached responses.

💰 How does pricing work? Pay-per-result: charged once per record collected. Free plan: 10 items per run preview.

🧾 What format is the output? CSV, Excel, JSON, XML — Apify dataset supports all four.

🔐 Do I need an API key? No. Open Food Facts public data only, no login required.

📈 What's the max I can scrape? 1,000,000 items per run on paid plans.

⏱️ How long does a run take? Typically seconds to minutes depending on maxItems.

🌍 Is this affiliated with Open Food Facts? No. Independent tool. Only publicly accessible data collected.

🛠️ What if a run fails? You're never charged for failed records. Errors appear as {error: "..."} rows.

🤝 Can I use this commercially? Yes, under Apify's standard terms and Open Food Facts's public-data policies.

📞 Where do I get help? Open our contact form.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify's full integration list: Make · Zapier · n8n · Slack · Discord · Webhook · REST API · GitHub · Airbyte · Google Drive · Google Sheets · Gmail · HubSpot · Pipedream.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Open Food Facts. Only publicly available data collected.