Food delivery scraping

Skill thirdwatch-dev/scraping-skills/skills/food-delivery-scraping

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Install

npx -y skills add thirdwatch-dev/scraping-skills --skill food-delivery-scraping

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Use when you need data from food-delivery platforms — restaurants, menus, item prices, ratings, and delivery times/fees — for menu and price intelligence, restaurant coverage analysis, market analysis, or competitor menu tracking. Covers Swiggy and Zomato (India), Talabat (Middle East), Deliveroo (UK/UAE/EU), and Noon Food. Triggers on "scrape restaurants", "menu data", "food delivery", "restaurant prices", "menu prices", "delivery fees", "restaurant ratings".

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Food-Delivery Scraping

Routes food-delivery data needs to a maintained scraper, or to the build path if none fits.

Food-delivery sites split into two technical camps. Some expose a Next.js/data API that hands back full menus over plain HTTP with no proxy — Talabat is the clean example, returning 130+ items per restaurant. Others are client-rendered behind anti-bot (Cloudflare, PerimeterX, Akamai) and need a stealth browser plus a residential proxy; these are usually zone-based or address-based (you pick a delivery area, then list its restaurants). The fields worth pulling are the same across all of them: restaurant name, rating, cuisine, delivery time, delivery fee, plus menu items with prices.

Ready-made scrapers

Target	Scraper	From	Notes
Swiggy (India)	Swiggy	$0.005/result	30 cities, ratings/cuisines/delivery + menu items
Zomato (India)	Zomato	$0.002/result	20 cities, ratings, cost-for-two, cuisines
Talabat (Middle East)	Talabat	$0.002/result	9 countries, full menus (130+ items), no proxy
Deliveroo (UK/UAE/EU)	Deliveroo	$0.008/result	restaurants + full menus with prices
Noon Food (UAE/KSA)	Noon Food	$0.005/result	zone-based restaurants + menus

All billed pay-per-result (free tier included); anti-bot maintenance is handled for you.

Run one

Each scraper runs from the CLI and returns JSON rows directly:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/thirdwatch~talabat-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
        "country": "ae",
        "search": "burger",
        "maxResults": 25,
        "includeMenu": true
      }'

Get a free token at console.apify.com. Input shapes differ by platform — zone/address-based scrapers (Deliveroo, Noon Food) take a location or area instead of a free-text city. Exact input fields are on each actor's Store page.

Build your own

No maintained scraper for the platform you need? Start with the engineering skills:

web-scraping-playbook — the build-vs-buy decision and the cost-first technique ladder (try the data API before the browser).
anti-bot-scraping — concrete bypasses for the Cloudflare / DataDome / PerimeterX / Akamai walls these sites sit behind.
apify-actor-builder — package your scraper as a deployable, monetizable Apify Actor.

Most food sites render restaurant lists and menus client-side via XHR — open DevTools → Network → XHR and look for the menu/search endpoint before reaching for a headless browser.

Maintained by Thirdwatch. 70+ ready-made scrapers on the Apify Store.