Restaurant Discovery API by City

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Get every restaurant in a city, country or TripAdvisor geo with the data you actually need — ratings, contact details, location, menus, hours, cuisines, awards and review snippets — plus optional full reviews.

This is not "just reviews". It's a restaurant directory + local discovery + review intelligence dataset, ready for market research, recommendation apps and hospitality lead-gen.

Why this Actor

• 🌍 Search by name or geoId — type Dubai or Spain, or pass an exact geoId.
• 📦 Complete records — 25+ fields per restaurant, consistent nulls, arrays for cuisines / schedule / snippets, numeric coordinates.
• 🔁 Beyond the 10k cap — large geos are recursively partitioned by facets with global de-duplication, so you get the full catalog.
• 🎯 Server-side filters — minRating, minReviews, onlyOpenNow, includeSponsored, applied before optional review enrichment.
• 💬 Optional full reviews — text, ratings per aspect, owner responses.
• 🛡️ Resilient — real-browser session warm-up, rate limiting, backoff, session rotation, proxy support.

Input

Minimal run:

{"query":"Dubai","maxItems":100,"proxyConfiguration":{"useApifyProxy":true,"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"]}}

Output

One item per restaurant in the dataset. Real example (trimmed):

{
"geo_id":295424,
"location_id":1062228,
"name":"Fish Market",
"url":"https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g295424-d1062228-Reviews-Fish_Market-Dubai_Emirate_of_Dubai.html",
"rating":4.6,
"review_count":1147,
"telephone":"+971 4 205 7033",
"full_address":"2nd Floor, Plaza Building, Baniyas Road, Deira, Dubai 0000 United Arab Emirates",
"postal_code":"0000",
"country":"United Arab Emirates",
"parent_geo":"Dubai",
"parent_geo_id":295424,
"latitude":25.265236,
"longitude":55.31004,
"price_range":"$$$$",
"menu_url":null,
"cuisines":["Seafood"],
"establishment_types":["Restaurants"],
"open_status":"OPEN",
"open_status_text":"Open now",
"has_delivery":null,
"has_reservation":null,
"is_sponsored":false,
"is_premium":false,
"award_type":"COE",
"award_year":2025,
"thumbnail":"https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/23/5d/a7/72/fish-market-restaurant.jpg?w={width}&h={height}&s=1",
"schedule":{"mon":[{"open_time":"12:30:00","close_time":"23:00:00"}],"tue":"..."},
"review_snippets":[
{
"text":"You can pick from a wide variety of fish seabass, snapper, salmon to calamari...",
"url":"https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g295424-d1062228-r1033153743-Fish_Market-Dubai_Emirate_of_Dubai.html"
}
],
"reviews":[]
}

When withReviews is enabled, each restaurant's reviews[] is filled with real review objects:

{
"review_id":939549784,
"restaurant_name":"Swiss Butter",
"rating":5,
"title":"Amazing!",
"text":"The food was delicious and the service was amazing. Everyone was so friendly. Their secret sauce was incredible, i dipped literally everything in it. Can't wait to go back.",
"language":"en",
"published_date":"2024-02-26",
"trip_type":"FRIENDS",
"user_name":"Julia Marie C",
"user_contributions":2,
"additional_ratings":{"Value":5,"Service":5,"Food":5,"Atmosphere":5},
"mgmt_response_text":"Thank you for your feedback💚",
"mgmt_response_date":"2024-02-27",
"photos":[]
}

Use cases

1. Market research / BI — benchmark a city by rating, review volume, cuisine mix, price level and awards.
2. Recommendation & travel apps — geo, hours, menus, snippets and delivery / booking signals out of the box.
3. Hospitality lead-gen — phone, address, URL and type for outreach or enrichment, filtered by minReviews / minRating.

How it works & limitations

• A real browser warms the session (solving TripAdvisor's datadome challenge), then fast HTTP pagination reuses that session.
• Geos above TripAdvisor's ~10,000 cap are split recursively by facets (neighbourhoods → cuisines → …) and de-duplicated globally.
• Use Apify Residential proxies. Datacenter IPs are challenged and may return no data. The input prefills the residential group.
• maxItems caps fetched rows; filters reduce the final count afterwards — raise maxItems if you need N rows after filtering.
• Data comes from TripAdvisor's public pages; use responsibly and in line with applicable terms and local regulations.