HappyCow Vegan Restaurant Scraper

Scrape vegan and vegetarian restaurants from HappyCow, the world's largest vegan/vegetarian restaurant finder. Get ratings, reviews, addresses, cuisine types, price ranges, and location data for restaurants worldwide.

Features

• Search by location — Enter any city name or location (e.g., "New York", "London", "Tokyo")
• Restaurant types — Identifies vegan, vegetarian, and veg-friendly restaurants
• Ratings and reviews — Star ratings, review counts, and full review text (with detail scraping)
• Location data — Addresses, cities, countries, postal codes, and precise lat/lng coordinates
• Contact info — Phone numbers and website URLs (with detail scraping)
• Price ranges — Budget indicators from $ to $$$$
• Pagination — Automatically pages through all results up to your limit

Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
searchQueries	string[]	City names or locations to search	["San Francisco"]
maxListings	integer	Max restaurants per search location	100
scrapeDetails	boolean	Visit individual pages for full reviews, phone, website, coordinates	false
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings	Apify Residential

Example Input

{
    "searchQueries": ["New York", "Los Angeles", "London"],
    "maxListings": 50,
    "scrapeDetails": true
}

Output

Each result contains:

Field	Description
name	Restaurant name
type	vegan, vegetarian, or veg-friendly
venueCategory	Restaurant, Food Truck, Bakery, Juice Bar, etc.
address	Street address
city	City name
country	Country name
postalCode	Postal/ZIP code
latitude	GPS latitude (detail mode only)
longitude	GPS longitude (detail mode only)
rating	Star rating (0-5)
ratingCount	Number of reviews
reviews	Array of review objects with author, rating, text (detail mode only)
description	Restaurant description (detail mode only)
website	Restaurant website URL (detail mode only)
phone	Phone number (detail mode only)
priceRange	Price indicator ($, $$, $$$, or descriptive like "Moderate")
imageUrl	Restaurant photo URL
url	HappyCow listing URL
searchQuery	The search query that found this result
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp

Example Output

{
    "venueId": "133328",
    "name": "Next Level Burger - Potrero Hill",
    "type": "vegan",
    "venueCategory": "Restaurant",
    "address": "450 Rhode Island St",
    "city": "San Francisco",
    "country": "USA",
    "postalCode": "94107",
    "latitude": 37.7642,
    "longitude": -122.4028,
    "rating": 4.5,
    "ratingCount": 106,
    "priceRange": "$$",
    "imageUrl": "https://images.happycow.net/venues/500/13/33/hcmp133328_2231265.jpeg",
    "url": "https://www.happycow.net/reviews/next-level-burger-san-francisco-133328",
    "searchQuery": "San Francisco",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-26T07:00:00.000Z"
}

Modes

Quick mode (default)

Set scrapeDetails: false for fast scraping. Gets name, type, rating, review count, address, price range, and image from search results. Does not include phone, website, coordinates, description, or individual reviews.

Detail mode

Set scrapeDetails: true to visit each restaurant's individual page. This adds phone numbers, website URLs, precise GPS coordinates, full descriptions, price range text, and individual review text with author names and ratings. Slower but provides complete data.

Cost

• Quick mode: ~$0.25 per 1,000 restaurants (very fast, minimal requests)
• Detail mode: ~$2.50 per 1,000 restaurants (one additional request per restaurant)

Tips

• Start with a small maxListings (10-20) to test your query
• Use detail mode only when you need phone/website/coordinates/reviews
• Each location searches a 15-mile radius by default
• The scraper automatically handles pagination across multiple result pages