# Fruityvice Fruit Nutrition Scraper (`crawlerbros/fruityvice-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Fruityvice.com - nutritional data for 60+ fruits including calories, carbohydrates, protein, fat, and sugar per 100g. Browse all fruits, lookup by name, filter by botanical family, or set nutritional thresholds (e.g. low sugar, high protein).

- **URL**: https://apify.com/crawlerbros/fruityvice-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Crawler Bros](https://apify.com/crawlerbros) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools, Integrations
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Fruityvice Fruit Nutrition Scraper

Scrape **Fruityvice** — an open reference database of fruit nutrition and botanical classification. Pull the whole catalog, look up individual fruits by name, or list every fruit in a botanical family, and get calories, sugar, carbohydrates, protein and fat per 100 g alongside the fruit's family, order, and genus. Calorie and sugar range filters let you build low-sugar or high-energy shortlists in one run. HTTP-only via the public `fruityvice.com` API. No auth, no proxy.

### What this actor does

- **Three modes:** `all`, `byName`, `byFamily`
- **19 botanical families** exposed as a dropdown with plain-English hints (`Rutaceae (citrus)`, `Musaceae (bananas)`, …)
- **Nutrition range filters:** min/max calories and min/max sugar per 100 g
- **Flat and nested nutrition:** every value is available as a top-level field and inside a `nutritions` object
- **Empty fields are omitted**

### Output per fruit

- `fruitId` — Fruityvice numeric ID
- `name` — common fruit name
- `family` — botanical family (e.g. `Rosaceae`)
- `order` — botanical order (e.g. `Rosales`)
- `genus` — botanical genus (e.g. `Malus`)
- `calories` — kcal per 100 g
- `sugar` — grams per 100 g
- `carbohydrates` — grams per 100 g
- `protein` — grams per 100 g
- `fat` — grams per 100 g
- `nutritions` — the same values nested as `calories`, `sugarG`, `carbohydratesG`, `proteinG`, `fatG`
- `recordType: "fruit"`, `scrapedAt`

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `mode` | string | `all` | `all` / `byName` / `byFamily` |
| `fruitName` | string | `apple` | Single fruit to look up (mode=byName) |
| `fruitNames` | array | – | Multiple fruits to look up (mode=byName) |
| `family` | string | – | Botanical family (required for `byFamily`, optional filter for `all`) |
| `minCalories` | number | – | Keep fruits with at least this many kcal per 100 g (mode=all) |
| `maxCalories` | number | – | Keep fruits with at most this many kcal per 100 g (mode=all) |
| `minSugar` | number | – | Keep fruits with at least this much sugar per 100 g (mode=all) |
| `maxSugar` | number | – | Keep fruits with at most this much sugar per 100 g (mode=all) |
| `maxItems` | int | `200` | Hard cap (1–500) |

#### Example: the whole catalog

```json
{
  "mode": "all",
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

#### Example: low-sugar fruits

```json
{
  "mode": "all",
  "maxSugar": 5,
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

#### Example: every citrus fruit

```json
{
  "mode": "byFamily",
  "family": "Rutaceae"
}
```

#### Example: look up specific fruits

```json
{
  "mode": "byName",
  "fruitNames": ["apple", "mango", "banana", "kiwi"]
}
```

### Use cases

- **Nutrition & diet apps** — seed a food database with per-100 g macros for common fruits
- **Recipe platforms** — attach calorie and sugar data to fruit ingredients automatically
- **Low-sugar and keto tooling** — generate compliant fruit shortlists with the sugar filter
- **Edtech & science content** — teach botanical classification with family / order / genus data
- **Grocery and meal-kit catalogs** — enrich fruit SKUs with nutrition facts
- **Chatbots & assistants** — answer "how much sugar is in a mango?" from structured data

### FAQ

**What is Fruityvice?**  A free, open API serving nutritional and botanical data for common fruits. See [fruityvice.com](https://www.fruityvice.com).

**Is this affiliated with Fruityvice?**  No. This is a third-party actor using their public API.

**Do I need an API key?**  No. The endpoints are open and unauthenticated.

**How many fruits are in the catalog?**  Around 60 — common, widely eaten fruits rather than an exhaustive botanical index. It grows slowly.

**What units are the nutrition values in?**  Everything is per 100 g of edible fruit: `calories` in kcal, and `sugar`, `carbohydrates`, `protein`, `fat` in grams.

**Why does the record repeat nutrition data twice?**  The top-level fields (`calories`, `sugar`, …) are the convenient flat form for spreadsheets and SQL. The `nutritions` object preserves the grouped shape for consumers that already expect it.

**Do the calorie and sugar filters work in every mode?**  They apply when browsing with `mode: "all"`. In `byName` and `byFamily` the actor returns exactly what you asked for without additional filtering.

**Why does filtering drop fruits with missing values?**  A fruit with no recorded calorie figure can't be proven to satisfy a calorie threshold, so it's excluded rather than guessed at.

**Are the botanical names authoritative?**  They follow standard classification, but a handful of families (for example `Punicaceae`) have been merged elsewhere in modern taxonomy. The actor reports what the source publishes.

**How fresh is the data?**  Live — each run queries the API directly, though the underlying reference data changes rarely.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

What to fetch.

## `fruitName` (type: `string`):

Name of specific fruit to fetch (mode=byName). E.g. 'apple', 'mango', 'banana'.

## `fruitNames` (type: `array`):

Multiple fruit names to fetch.

## `family` (type: `string`):

Filter by botanical family (mode=byFamily or all).

## `minCalories` (type: `number`):

Only include fruits with at least this many calories per 100g.

## `maxCalories` (type: `number`):

Only include fruits with at most this many calories per 100g.

## `minSugar` (type: `number`):

Only include fruits with at least this much sugar.

## `maxSugar` (type: `number`):

Only include fruits with at most this much sugar (for low-sugar filtering).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of fruits to emit.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "all",
  "fruitName": "apple",
  "fruitNames": [],
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `items` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing all scraped records.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "mode": "all",
    "fruitName": "apple",
    "maxItems": 200
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("crawlerbros/fruityvice-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "mode": "all",
    "fruitName": "apple",
    "maxItems": 200,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("crawlerbros/fruityvice-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "mode": "all",
  "fruitName": "apple",
  "maxItems": 200
}' |
apify call crawlerbros/fruityvice-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,crawlerbros/fruityvice-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/HBPQ45rxCE6udgmGm/builds/sc7738gmekb9Odwby/openapi.json