Government · head-to-head
Food Standards Agency vs Open Government, Belgium
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.gov.be is Belgium's federal open-data portal, built on a custom Drupal-based platform rather than CKAN. Rather than a search REST API, it publishes its full catalogue as a DCAT-AP metadata export (RDF/XML and N-Triples) and exposes it live through a Triple Pattern Fragments / Linked Data Fragments server at `ldf.belgif.be/datagovbe`, which answers unauthenticated with a wildcard CORS header. The main site itself also sits behind bot-detection middleware that can block naive scripted fetches, but the LDF endpoint and the documented DCAT export are both reachable directly.
| Food Standards Agency | Open Government, Belgium | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON, XML | RDF/XML, N-Triples |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |