Cheapest iFood Scraper

Scrape iFood — Brazil's #1 food & grocery delivery — at the lowest price per result on the Apify Store. Search restaurants and stores near any address, then pull full menus (dish names, descriptions and prices) plus ratings, delivery fee/time, category and images.

Fast, cheap, and light. Pay per result, no start fee, no subscription.

Why this one

• Cheapest on the Store. Full menu at $0.0029/restaurant (27% under the cheapest competitor, 8.6× under the category leader). Listing/discovery at $0.0009/restaurant — a mode most rivals don't sell separately. See ./PRICING.md.
• No residential proxy needed. The default Apify proxy works, which keeps the price this low.
• Everything in BRL, normalized. Delivery fees and menu prices come back as consistent Reais.
• Self-monitored. Every run reports upstream health to a private tracker, so schema drift on iFood's side is caught early.

Modes

Set mode in the input:

search — find restaurants/stores near a location

Give a term (what to look for, e.g. "pizza", "hamburguer", "restaurante") and a location — either an address (geocoded for you) or explicit latitude/longitude.

{
  "mode": "search",
  "term": "pizza",
  "address": "Avenida Paulista 1000, São Paulo",
  "searchSize": 50
}

Returns one item per merchant: merchantId, name, slug, type, mainCategory, userRating, distanceKm, deliveryFee (R$), deliveryTimeMinMinutes/MaxMinutes, available, imageUrl, url. Charges search-merchant per merchant.

merchant — full detail + menu for specific restaurants

Give merchantUrls: iFood restaurant URLs, identifier=<uuid> action strings, or bare merchant UUIDs (any mix). A location (address or latitude/longitude) is still required — iFood catalogs are location-scoped.

{
  "mode": "merchant",
  "merchantUrls": [
    "https://www.ifood.com.br/delivery/sao-paulo-sp/.../1d743d52-3fa4-43df-b9a4-de1260417b71",
    "1d743d52-3fa4-43df-b9a4-de1260417b71"
  ],
  "latitude": -23.5614117,
  "longitude": -46.6558999
}

Returns one item per merchant with metadata (rating, price range, category, features, payment methods, logo/images, URL) plus the full menu: categories, each with items carrying itemId, name, description, price (R$), minPrice, hasOptions, available, imageUrl. Charges merchant-detail per merchant.

selftest — health check

Runs a fixed geocode/search/merchant/catalog probe set and reports endpoint health. No charge.

Input reference

Field	Type	Applies to	Notes
mode	string	all	search | merchant | selftest (required)
term	string	search	search query
address	string	search, merchant	geocoded to lat/lon if coords not given
latitude / longitude	number	search, merchant	explicit location (skips geocode)
merchantUrls	array	merchant	URLs, action strings, or bare UUIDs
searchSize	integer	search	merchants per search (default 50, up to 100)
maxItems	integer	all	cap on total results
proxyConfiguration	object	all	defaults to the Apify proxy — no residential needed

Location

A location is always required. Provide it the easy way (address, geocoded via iFood's own geocoder) or the precise way (latitude/longitude). Coordinates take precedence when both are given. Menus and search results are location-scoped, exactly as on ifood.com.br.

Proxy

The default Apify proxy works — no residential proxy required. Override via proxyConfiguration only if you need a specific proxy.

Notes

• Prices and delivery fees are in BRL. iFood returns delivery fee in cents; we normalize to Reais so every monetary field is consistent.
• Not affiliated with iFood. Scrapes only publicly visible catalog data.

See ./PRICING.md for the full price/margin breakdown.