Openfoodfacts Scraper
Spider read openfoodfacts.org in 301 ms without a browser and returned 32 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Become an Open Food Facts patron", "Discover" and "Contribute".
We still need €120,000 to finish 2026!### Become an Open Food Facts patronEvery month, we serve 8 million visitors, and many times that through the API. Your support is essential to:keep Open Food Facts open & available to all,* support infrastructure, the website, mobile app and API with a small permanent team* remain independent of the food industry,If every visitor this month clicked on Donate and gave just 1€, we'd get over 8 times our yearly budget!## DiscoverOpen Food Facts is a food products database made by everyone, for everyone. You can use it to make better food choices, and as it is open data, anyone can re-use it for any purpose.auto_storiesLearn more about Open Food Facts## ContributeOpen Food Facts is a non-profit project developed by thousands of volunteers from around the world.You can start contributing by adding a product from your kitchen with our app for iPhone or Android, and we have lots ofexciting projects you can contribute to in many different ways.add_taskLearn more about how you can join usThe same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on openfoodfacts.org.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://openfoodfacts.org");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });
const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.openfoodfacts.org", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(result);Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What openfoodfacts.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001248 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
Run it keyless, no account
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Start scraping openfoodfacts.org.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.