HappyCow Scraper – Vegan & Vegetarian Restaurant Data

Scrape public HappyCow vegan and vegetarian restaurant listings by city, state or country. Get name, address, coordinates, cuisine, price level, rating, review count, opening hours, photos, vegan features, website, menu and listing URL. $2.50 per 1,000 venues.

Map Plant-Based Dining

HappyCow is a global directory of vegan and vegetarian restaurants, cafes, shops and services. This Actor turns public city, region and venue pages into structured records for food apps, travel guides, market researchers, restaurants and outreach teams.

• Market research — map plant-based dining by city, state or country.
• Travel and food apps — import venue names, coordinates, cuisines and photos.
• Sales and partnerships — build lists of vegan-friendly businesses for outreach.
• Monitoring — schedule runs to track new openings, ratings and review counts.
• Coverage analysis — compare vegan supply across regions.

How It Works

The Actor reads public HappyCow city, state, country and venue pages, follows the available result pages, and normalizes each venue into one dataset row. Pass exact city URLs for the fastest runs, or enable region expansion for broader coverage.

• One row per venue.
• City, state, country and direct venue URLs are supported.
• Region expansion adds child city pages.
• Fields that HappyCow does not publish stay null.

Search By City, Region Or Venue

Use startUrls for exact locations or venues:

• City pages — Austin, Berlin, London, New York and thousands of other cities.
• State and country pages — expand them into child cities with expandRegions.
• Venue pages — pass direct venue URLs for detail-only fields such as hours and website.
• Limits — cap saved venues with maxItems and total work with maxRequestsPerCrawl.

Restaurant Fields

Each venue record includes the name, venue ID, full address, street, city, region, country, postal code, phone, latitude, longitude, coordinates, cuisine types, price level, rating, review count, favorites count, opening hours, photos, primary image, vegan features, vegan type, website, menu, description, listing URL, source and timestamp.

City listing records include the core venue card data. Direct venue pages can add opening hours, website, menu, postal code and favorites count.

Input – Configure A HappyCow Run

Field	Type	Default	Notes
startUrls	array	Austin, Texas	HappyCow city, state, country or venue URLs
maxItems	integer	200	Maximum venues saved to the dataset
expandRegions	boolean	false	Expands country or state pages into child city pages
maxRequestsPerCrawl	integer	1000	Safety cap for large region runs
proxy	object	Apify Proxy on	Standard Apify Proxy configuration

Output – Vegan Restaurant Fields

Each dataset item can contain:

• name, venueId
• address, street, city, region, country, postalCode
• phone
• latitude, longitude, coordinates
• cuisineType
• priceLevel
• rating, reviewCount, favoritesCount
• openingHours
• photos, primaryImage
• veganFeatures, veganType
• website, menu
• description
• listingUrl
• source
• scrapedAt

Example Input – Austin, Texas

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.happycow.net/north_america/usa/texas/austin/" }],
  "maxItems": 200,
  "expandRegions": false,
  "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Example Output – Austin Restaurant

{
  "name": "Seriously Vegan",
  "venueId": "522209",
  "address": "9225 W Parmer Ln Unit No -106, Austin, Texas, USA",
  "street": "9225 W Parmer Ln Unit No -106",
  "phone": "+1-737-218-8299",
  "city": "Austin",
  "region": "Texas",
  "country": "USA",
  "postalCode": null,
  "latitude": 30.478101,
  "longitude": -97.766414,
  "coordinates": { "latitude": 30.478101, "longitude": -97.766414 },
  "cuisineType": ["Indian"],
  "priceLevel": "Moderate",
  "rating": 5,
  "reviewCount": 15,
  "favoritesCount": null,
  "openingHours": null,
  "photos": ["https://images.happycow.net/venues/500/52/22/hcmp522209_4059813.jpeg"],
  "primaryImage": "https://images.happycow.net/venues/500/52/22/hcmp522209_4059813.jpeg",
  "veganFeatures": ["Vegan", "Indian", "Take-out", "Breakfast"],
  "veganType": "vegan",
  "website": null,
  "menu": null,
  "description": "Fully vegan Indian restaurant offering a variety of vegan dishes.",
  "listingUrl": "https://www.happycow.net/reviews/seriously-vegan-austin-522209",
  "source": "listing",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-31T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Export Restaurant Data To JSON, CSV Or Excel And Schedule Runs

Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run page or through the Apify API. Connect runs to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or webhooks, or schedule weekly refreshes to track new venues, ratings and review counts.

Related Actors

• Google Maps Scraper — add neighborhood context and nearby places
• Google Search Scraper — research vegan dining and local demand
• Contact Details Scraper — enrich venue websites with emails and phones
• Website Content Crawler — collect public restaurant and menu content

FAQ

What is HappyCow?

HappyCow is a global directory of vegan and vegetarian restaurants, cafes, shops and services.

Do I need a HappyCow account?

No. The Actor reads public listings and never asks for your HappyCow credentials.

Why are opening hours or website missing?

Those fields are not present on every city listing card. Pass direct venue URLs to collect the extra detail-page fields.

What does expandRegions do?

It turns a country or state page into its child city pages, up to two levels deep, so you can cover a region without listing every city manually.

Why are some venues missing a postal code?

Postal codes are published only on some venue detail pages. Listing-card rows can leave postalCode as null.

How much does it cost?

FREE and BRONZE users pay $0.0025 per venue ($2.50 per 1,000), SILVER pays $0.00245 and GOLD+ pays $0.0024, plus a small Actor Start event and any proxy usage.

Can I scrape a single venue?

Yes. Pass its HappyCow venue URL in startUrls.

Is the data current?

Venue details, hours, ratings and availability change. Schedule regular runs if you need fresh data.

For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Returns one row per HappyCow venue with address, coordinates, cuisine, price level, rating, reviews, photos, vegan features and contact links.

Minimal working input:

{ "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.happycow.net/north_america/usa/texas/austin/" }], "maxItems": 24 }

Output fields: name, venueId, address, street, city, region, country, postalCode, phone, latitude, longitude, coordinates, cuisineType, priceLevel, rating, reviewCount, favoritesCount, openingHours, photos, primaryImage, veganFeatures, veganType, website, menu, description, listingUrl, source, scrapedAt.

Behaviors an agent should know:

• startUrls accepts city, state, country and direct venue URLs.
• maxItems caps saved venues.
• expandRegions: true expands country or state pages into child cities.
• openingHours, website, menu and favoritesCount usually require direct venue URLs.
• postalCode can be null on listing-card rows.
• Free users get a 10-venue preview.

Billing: $0.0025 per venue on FREE/BRONZE ($2.50 per 1,000), $0.00245 on SILVER and $0.0024 on GOLD+, plus a small Actor Start event.

Legal & Compliance Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by HappyCow.

It collects publicly available venue listings — no login and no private account. Venue details, hours, ratings and menu links are self-reported and may change. Users are responsible for complying with HappyCow's terms and applicable privacy, consumer and marketing law. Nothing here is legal or dietary advice.

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