Government · head-to-head
Food Standards Agency vs Open Government, ACT
The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme API returns FHRS/FHIS inspection ratings for food businesses across the UK, filterable by local authority, name, and location. A live keyless query against `api.ratings.food.gov.uk/Establishments` (with the mandatory `x-api-version: 2` header) returned real establishment JSON with a wildcard `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header. The stored `/open-data/en-GB` path now 404s after the host moved fully to HTTPS; the API itself needs no key, only the version header.
Data.act.gov.au is the Australian Capital Territory's open-data portal, run on Socrata; its catalog discovery API at `www.data.act.gov.au/api/catalog/v1` answers keyless GETs with full dataset JSON and a wildcard `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header (the bare `data.act.gov.au` apex briefly redirects through plain HTTP before landing back on the `www` host over HTTPS, so link to `www` directly). Individual datasets are queryable through Socrata's SODA API in JSON or CSV, covering ACT government services, planning, and community data.
| Food Standards Agency | Open Government, ACT | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON, XML | JSON, CSV |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |