Open Food Facts Product Scraper

Search Open Food Facts or look up barcodes and get rich food product data back as clean, structured JSON: name, brand, categories, Nutri-Score, NOVA group, Eco-Score, ingredients, allergens, additives, labels and full per-100g nutrition (energy, fat, sugars, salt, protein, carbs, fibre). No account, no API key. Perfect for nutrition apps, retail and CPG research, and food data pipelines.

Features

• 🔎 Search or barcode — pass searchTerms like oat milk, or exact barcodes (EAN/UPC) for direct product lookups.
• 🥗 Full nutrition per 100g — energy (kcal), fat, saturated fat, sugars, salt, protein, carbohydrates, fibre and sodium.
• 🏅 Health & processing scores — Nutri-Score grade, NOVA group and Eco-Score grade on every product.
• 🧾 Ingredients & safety — ingredients text, allergens and a cleaned additives list (E-numbers without the en: prefix).
• 🌍 Country database selection — query the global world DB or a country code like us, uk, fr, de via country.
• 🏷️ Always-usable names — a displayName is synthesized from brand + category when a product's own name is missing.
• 🔑 No key needed — uses the public Open Food Facts API with polite rate limiting built in.

What you get

One flat JSON record per product (a source field records the search term or barcode it came from):

{
  "source": "search:oat milk",
  "code": "3017620422003",
  "productName": "Oat Drink Barista",
  "displayName": "Oat Drink Barista",
  "brands": "Oatly",
  "categories": "Plant-based foods, Beverages, Plant-based milk",
  "quantity": "1 l",
  "servingSize": "100 ml",
  "countries": "United Kingdom, France",
  "nutriscoreGrade": "c",
  "novaGroup": 4,
  "ecoscoreGrade": "b",
  "ingredientsText": "Oat base (water, oats 10%), rapeseed oil, ...",
  "allergens": "en:gluten",
  "additives": ["e340", "e450"],
  "labels": "Vegan, No added sugar",
  "packaging": "Tetra Pak",
  "stores": "Tesco",
  "energyKcal100g": 59,
  "fat100g": 3.0,
  "saturatedFat100g": 0.3,
  "sugars100g": 3.3,
  "salt100g": 0.09,
  "proteins100g": 1.0,
  "carbohydrates100g": 6.6,
  "fiber100g": 0.8,
  "sodium100g": 0.036,
  "imageUrl": "https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/oat.jpg",
  "url": "https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/3017620422003"
}

Output schema

Input

{
  "searchTerms": ["oat milk", "dark chocolate"],
  "barcodes": [],
  "country": "world",
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 50
}

Use cases

• Build or enrich a nutrition app with Nutri-Score, NOVA and per-100g macros.
• Look up a batch of product barcodes for a retail or inventory catalog.
• Research ingredients, additives and allergens across a food category.
• Feed clean CPG product data into dashboards or comparison tools.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: you're billed a small amount per run and per product scraped — you only pay for what you get. See the Pricing tab for current rates.

FAQ

Do I need an API key or account? No. The Actor uses the public Open Food Facts API with polite rate limiting built in — no login and no key required.

How many products can I get per run? Up to 2,000 products per search term. Pass multiple searchTerms, or look up exact barcodes (EAN/UPC) directly for pinpoint product records.

How fresh is the data? Products are pulled live from Open Food Facts at run time. Because it's a crowd-sourced database, freshness and completeness depend on community contributions for each product.

Is the data official? The data comes from Open Food Facts, a free, open, crowd-sourced food database — not from manufacturers. This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Open Food Facts.

What's the output format? Flat JSON, one record per product, with name, brand, categories, Nutri-Score, NOVA group, Eco-Score, ingredients, allergens, additives and full per-100g nutrition. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Can I connect this to other apps and services? The Open Food Facts Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. It works with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Drive and many more, plus the Apify API, JavaScript/Python clients and MCP. Or use webhooks to trigger an action whenever a run finishes.

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Notes

This Actor uses the public Open Food Facts API (openfoodfacts.org), a free, open, crowd-sourced food database. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Open Food Facts; all trademarks belong to their respective owners.

You pay only for what the run returns. Set a maximum cost per run and it stops cleanly at that limit.