GrabFood Merchant Intelligence

Extract GrabFood merchant intelligence — ratings, vote counts, full menus with prices, opening hours, cuisines, and promos — via Grab's guest API. Batch merchant IDs or search by keyword/location.

Perfect for: F&B competitive monitoring, menu tracking, market research, franchise expansion analysis, and AI-ready merchant datasets across Southeast Asia.

Features

• Batch merchant detail — fetch full intelligence for up to hundreds of merchant IDs in one run
• Keyword search — find merchants by keyword near any location (KL, SG, Bangkok, Manila, Jakarta...)
• Full menu extraction — categories, items, prices, descriptions, images
• Rating + vote counts — track rating trends over time
• Opening hours, cuisines, promos, chain/branch info
• Streaming output — rows appear in the dataset as they're fetched (no all-or-nothing runs)
• Pay-per-event — you're charged only for merchants actually delivered

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
mode	string	yes	merchant_ids or search
merchant_ids	array	for merchant_ids mode	GrabFood merchant IDs (e.g. 1-CY5FNLDUNXDKCE)
keyword	string	for search mode	e.g. pizza, subway, nasi lemak
latlng	string	for search mode	lat,lng (e.g. 3.1390,101.6869 for KL)
country_code	string	no	MY (default), SG, TH, PH, VN, ID, KH, MM
max_merchants	integer	no	Max results in search mode (default 50)
include_menu	boolean	no	Include full menu in detail (default true)
session_cookie	string	recommended	Grab session cookie from a logged-in food.grab.com session (see below)
web_app_version	string	no	x-grab-web-app-version header (defaults to a known-good value)

Session cookie (recommended)

Grab's guest API requires an authenticated session. Provide a cookie string from a logged-in browser session:

1. Open food.grab.com and log in
2. Open DevTools (F12) → Application → Cookies → https://food.grab.com
3. Copy the values of passenger_authn_token and grabid-openid-authn-ck
4. Paste as: passenger_authn_token=<value>; grabid-openid-authn-ck=<value>

Cookies expire — refresh them periodically. Without a valid cookie, the API returns 401.

Output

Each merchant is one dataset row:

{
  "merchant_id": "1-CY5FNLDUNXDKCE",
  "name": "Subway - Axiata Arena Bukit Jalil",
  "cuisine": ["Western", "Sandwich", "Wrap"],
  "rating": 4.5,
  "vote_count": 2365,
  "opening_hours": { "open": true, "displayedHours": "00:00-01:40 09:30-23:59" },
  "address": { ... },
  "menu": [
    {
      "category": "For You",
      "items": [
        { "name": "6-Inch Roasted Chicken", "price": 16.98, "price_display": "RM16.98" }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "source": "merchant_detail"
}

Search mode returns lightweight rows (no menu). A final summary row reports counts and the run URL.

Pricing

• $4.00 / 1,000 merchants (pay-per-event, charged per merchant delivered)
• Platform usage (compute) billed separately by Apify

Notes

• Unofficial — not affiliated with Grab. Use responsibly and respect Grab's terms of service.
• The guest API is rate-limited; the actor uses bounded concurrency (5 workers) to stay safe.
• If you see 401s, refresh your session cookie.