Food hygiene ratings for food businesses at a UK postcode from the Food Standard
Food hygiene ratings for food businesses at a UK postcode from the Food Standards Agency: business name and type, address, rating and the date of the inspection it is based on, as JSON.
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Endpoint
GET https://pennydatahq.com/api/food-hygiene/:postcode
| Category | Everything else |
|---|---|
| Provider host | pennydatahq.com |
| Networks | eip155:8453 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
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Example input (from the provider)
{
"method": "GET",
"pathParams": {
"postcode": ":postcode"
},
"queryParams": {},
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET"
],
"type": "string"
},
"pathParams": {
"properties": {
"postcode": {
"description": "Full UK postcode, with or without the space, any case.",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"postcode"
],
"type": "object"
},
"queryParams": {
"properties": {},
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"properties": {
"count": {
"type": "integer"
},
"establishments": {
"items": {
"properties": {
"address": {
"description": "Withheld by the FSA for some premises, such as private homes",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"business_name": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"business_type": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"fhrs_id": {
"type": "integer"
},
"fsa_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"local_authority": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"new_rating_pending": {
"type": [
"boolean",
"null"
]
},
"rating": {
"description": "0 to 5, Exempt, AwaitingInspection, Pass, Improvement Required, and others",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"rating_date": {
"description": "YYYY-MM-DD, the inspection the rating is based on",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"scheme": {
"description": "FHRS (England, Wales, Northern Ireland) or FHIS (Scotland)",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"type": "array"
},
"postcode": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"postcode",
"count",
"establishments"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}