Japan Restaurants Scraper (HotPepper Gourmet)

Restaurant data from HotPepper Gourmet (ホットペッパーグルメ) — Japan's biggest restaurant reservation site — by prefecture and cuisine genre, in a clean English schema: budgets, addresses, business phone numbers, opening hours, seat counts, private rooms and other facility facts.

This Actor scrapes public hotpepper.jp listing pages (and optionally each restaurant's detail page) and returns structured JSON: restaurant name, genre, sub-area, lunch/dinner budget ranges as parsed yen values, access line, street address, published business phone, opening hours, closed days, nearest station, coordinates — plus the facility facts HotPepper is uniquely strong at: total seats, maximum banquet capacity, private rooms, tatami/horigotatsu seating, counter seats, charter availability, Wi-Fi, parking, smoking policy, all-you-can-drink/eat and credit-card acceptance.

Unofficial tool. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Recruit Co., Ltd. or HotPepper Gourmet. This Actor reads public web pages only — it does not use the リクルートWEBサービス (HotPepper Gourmet) API. It collects publicly available factual business data only — it never collects review text (口コミ, copyrighted works), reviewer identities, staff data, coupon or advertising copy, and it never bypasses logins or CAPTCHAs. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with the source site's terms and the laws that apply to you (including GDPR/APPI where relevant); the published business phone numbers are included as business contact information, not personal data — verify your own legal basis before using them for outreach.

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Who is this for?

• B2B suppliers and services — lead lists of restaurants by prefecture and genre with published business phones, seat counts and banquet capacity (the classic signal for wholesale, POS, staffing and reservation-tech leads).
• Market research and location intelligence — density, budget positioning and facility mix of restaurants by area and cuisine.
• Travel and food-tech products — English-schema Japanese restaurant data including private-room and smoking-policy facts that international diners actually ask about.

Sample output (dataset item)

{
  "restaurantName": "居酒屋 よりみち 八王子店",
  "genre": ["居酒屋"],
  "budgetDinner": { "raw": "2001～3000円", "minJpy": 2001, "maxJpy": 3000 },
  "budgetLunch": null,
  "address": "東京都八王子市三崎町2-13",
  "prefecture": "東京都",
  "prefectureEn": "Tokyo",
  "prefectureCode": "13",
  "area": "八王子",
  "nearestStation": "八王子",
  "access": "八王子駅より徒歩１分。駅を出て左手に進み、サンドラックの角を左折した先にございます。",
  "phone": "042-686-1808",
  "businessHours": "月～木、日、祝日: 16:00～翌1:00 （料理L.O. 翌0:00 ドリンクL.O. 翌0:00） 金、土、祝前日: 16:00～翌4:30 ...",
  "closedDays": "無休",
  "seats": 150,
  "maxBanquetCapacity": 150,
  "privateRoom": true,
  "tatami": true,
  "horigotatsu": true,
  "counterSeats": false,
  "charterAvailable": true,
  "wifi": false,
  "parking": true,
  "smoking": "全席喫煙可",
  "allYouCanDrink": true,
  "allYouCanEat": false,
  "creditCard": "利用不可",
  "latitude": 35.6569119,
  "longitude": 139.337419,
  "url": "https://www.hotpepper.jp/strJ001284014/",
  "hotpepperId": "J001284014",
  "detailFetched": true,
  "source": "ホットペッパーグルメ (HotPepper Gourmet, hotpepper.jp)",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.hotpepper.jp/",
  "license": "Publicly available data — unofficial tool; users are responsible for compliance with the source site's terms",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-08-25T14:24:46.000Z"
}

In cheap list-only mode (detailFetch: false, the default) each listing page request yields 20 records with name, genre, sub-area, budgets, access line, phone (when the cassette lists one) and coordinates; the detail-only fields are null.

Input example

{
  "prefecture": "Tokyo",
  "genre": "izakaya",
  "area": "新宿",
  "maxItems": 40,
  "detailFetch": true
}

• prefecture (required): "Tokyo", "東京都" or JIS code "13" — all 47 prefectures (the mapping to HotPepper service areas is built in and live-verified).
• genre (optional): a HotPepper genre code from the site URL (G001), a Japanese label (居酒屋, 和食, ラーメン, ...) or an English alias (izakaya, ramen, yakiniku, cafe, korean, ...). Unknown values are refused with guidance — never silent wrong data. Empty = all 17 genres, walked in site order.
• area (optional): a place-name substring matched client-side against each restaurant's own sub-area, access line, station and address (e.g. 新宿, 渋谷, 梅田). Filtered-out restaurants never cost a detail request.

Pricing

Pay per result — see the pricing tab. A listing-only run is cheap (20 records per upstream request); detailFetch: true costs one extra upstream request per restaurant and fills the business-info and facility fields.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? Live from public hotpepper.jp listing and store detail pages at run time. Every record embeds the source, source URL, a license note and the retrieval timestamp.

Is this an official HotPepper/Recruit service? Does it use the HotPepper API? No and no. Unofficial, independently built and maintained, not affiliated with or endorsed by Recruit Co., Ltd. It deliberately does not use the リクルートWEBサービス API — it reads the public web pages.

Does it collect reviews, coupons or ad copy? No, by design. Review text is a copyrighted work and reviewer identities are personal data — review pages (/report/) are never requested, and the URL guard refuses them outright. Advertising cassettes (【PR】) are skipped, and coupon copy, catch copy and SEO keyword lines are never parsed. Automated tests assert with real-page specimens that none of this can ever appear in the output.

Where do the phone numbers come from? From the page's own structured business data (JSON-LD telephone and the listing's data attributes). The /tel/ phone-reveal endpoint is never requested.

Why did my run stop before maxItems? The Actor enforces a hard per-run request budget (maxApiRequests) with strictly serial requests ≥1.2 s apart — polite by construction. The run summary (RUN_SUMMARY key-value record) reports complete: false with the reason whenever a budget truncated the result set. Raise maxApiRequests or narrow the query.

What if hotpepper.jp blocks the datacenter IP? The Actor performs no block evasion (no header spoofing, no CAPTCHA solving, no rotation tricks). If the runtime IP is refused it fails visibly with the HTTP status. Setting proxyConfiguration (e.g. Apify automatic proxy, or residential with apifyProxyCountry: "JP") usually resolves it.

Is the whole of Japan covered? Yes — all 47 prefectures and all 17 HotPepper cuisine genres. What one run returns is your query's result set subject to maxItems and the request budget, both reported honestly in the run summary.

Search terms this Actor answers

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Data source: hotpepper.jp public pages. Unofficial; not affiliated with Recruit Co., Ltd. Factual business data only — no review content, no user data, no coupon/ad copy. Users are responsible for their own compliance with the source site's terms and applicable law.