UK Food Standards Agency food hygiene ratings (FHRS) for an establishment. Search by business name and/or postcode and get matching establishments with their hygiene rating (0-5 in England/Wales/NI; Pass / Improvement Required in Scotland), rating date, the three component scores (hygiene, structural, confidence in management — lower is better), business type, local authority, full address + postcode, and geocode. Free, Open Government Licence (commercial use permitted). Authoritative inspection data an LLM cannot recall — for food, hospitality, and consumer-safety agents.
/api/food/hygiene-ukPAYMENT-SIGNATURE.The hygiene uk API is a pay-per-call food endpoint built for AI agents and autonomous software. UK Food Standards Agency food hygiene ratings (FHRS) for an establishment.
There is no signup and no API key. An agent (or any HTTP client) hits the endpoint, receives an x402 "402 Payment Required" challenge, signs a sub-cent USDC payment on Base or Solana, and retries — the data comes back on the paid request. That makes it a drop-in hygiene uk data source for an agent tool-use loop, an MCP host, or a backend that needs food data on demand without onboarding to yet another vendor portal.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
name | string | min 1 chars · max 120 chars |
postcode | string | min 2 chars · max 12 chars |
limit | integer | min 1 · max 50 |
# 1. Probe with no auth → 402 envelope with PaymentRequirements curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/food/hygiene-uk?name=example&postcode=xx&limit=1' # 2. Sign + retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/food/hygiene-uk?name=example&postcode=xx&limit=1' \ -H 'PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: <base64-json-payload>' # Or use the canonical runner (handles probe → sign → retry): # EVM_PRIVATE_KEY=0x... node --env-file=.env.local \ # --experimental-strip-types scripts/x402-pay.ts \ # 'https://2s.io/api/food/hygiene-uk?name=example&postcode=xx&limit=1'
import { TwoS } from '@2sio/sdk'
const client = new TwoS({
privateKey: process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY as `0x${string}`,
})
const result = await client.food.hygieneUk({
"name": "example",
"postcode": "xx",
"limit": 1
})
console.log('endpoint:', result.endpoint)
console.log('cost:', result.costUsd, 'USDC')
console.log('tx:', result.settlement?.txHash)
console.log('data:', result.data)import os
from twosio import TwoS
client = TwoS(private_key=os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])
result = client.food.hygiene_uk(name="example", postcode="xx", limit=1)
print("endpoint:", result.endpoint)
print("cost:", result.cost_usd, "USDC")
print("tx:", (result.settlement or {}).get("tx_hash"))
print("data:", result.data)// 1. Add @2sio/mcp to your MCP host config (Claude Desktop example below).
// EVM_PRIVATE_KEY funds x402 payments per call.
// claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"2sio": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@2sio/mcp"],
"env": { "EVM_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x..." }
}
}
}
// 2. Once the server is running, agents call this tool via standard MCP:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "food.hygiene-uk",
"arguments": {
"name": "example",
"postcode": "xx",
"limit": 1
}
}
}| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
ok | boolean | one of: true |
items | array | |
total | integer | Total matching rows upstream; null when unknown. |
source | object |
{
"ok": true,
"items": [
{
"fhrsId": 1,
"name": "example",
"businessType": "example",
"ratingValue": "example",
"ratingDate": "example",
"scores": {
"hygiene": 1,
"structural": 1,
"management": 1
},
"localAuthority": "example",
"address": "example",
"postcode": "example",
"latitude": 1,
"longitude": 1
}
],
"total": 1,
"source": {
"provider": "example",
"url": "example",
"license": "example"
}
}