# Just Eat UK Restaurants by Postcode - Ratings, Fees, ETAs (`superslowsloth/just-eat-restaurants`) Actor

Every Just Eat UK restaurant that delivers to a postcode as one flat row: rating and review count, cuisines, address and lat/lng, open now, delivery fee ladder, minimum order, delivery ETA and menu URL. Filter by cuisine, open now and minimum rating.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/superslowsloth/just-eat-restaurants.md
- **Developed by:** [Superslow Sloth](https://apify.com/superslowsloth) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, E-commerce, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.40 / 1,000 restaurant scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Just Eat UK Restaurants Scraper - Ratings, Fees & ETAs by Postcode

Every Just Eat UK restaurant that delivers to (or is collectable near) a postcode,
as flat, typed dataset rows: star rating and review count, cuisines, address with
latitude/longitude, open-now flags, the delivery fee ladder, minimum order, delivery
time range, distance and the menu URL. Filter by cuisine, open now and minimum rating.

### What you are paying for, honestly

The data comes from the discovery endpoint behind justeat.co.uk's own restaurant
search (`uk.api.just-eat.io`). It needs no login or API key, and anyone who finds it
can read the same JSON. What this actor adds:

- **One row per restaurant, flat.** Fees arrive in pence inside a separate block keyed
  by id, ratings as nested objects, cuisines as objects, coordinates as GeoJSON
  `[lng, lat]`. Here they are joined and named columns, fees in pounds.
- **Many postcodes in one run, on a schedule.** Run a list of postcodes daily and
  send the dataset to Sheets, a webhook, S3 or your warehouse.
- **Filters** by cuisine, open now and minimum rating, applied before the row cap.
- **The refusal handling.** Just Eat sits behind Cloudflare. Refused (HTTP 403) and
  timed-out requests are retried from a fresh proxy address.

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| `postcodes` | array | `LS1 6AN` | UK postcodes, or outcodes such as `LS1` for a wider area. Spaces and case do not matter. Required. |
| `maxItems` | integer | `100` | Most rows **per postcode**, after the filters, in Just Eat's listing order. Each row is billed, so this is a spending cap. |
| `cuisine` | string | - | Keep restaurants with a cuisine whose label or slug contains this text (`pizza`, `indian`, `fish-and-chips`). |
| `openNowOnly` | boolean | `false` | Keep only restaurants open for delivery or collection at run time. |
| `minRating` | number | - | Keep only restaurants rated at least this many stars (0-5). Unrated restaurants are dropped when set. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | proxy | Apify datacenter | Measured 2026-10-07: the Apify platform address and datacenter proxy get 200; a home address in Japan gets Cloudflare 403. |

Just Eat returns a postcode's **whole** restaurant list in one response (2,528
restaurants, 2 MB, for LS1 6AN), so `maxItems` limits rows and cost, not download size.
An outcode returns more (2,827 for `LS1`).

### Output

One row per restaurant **per searched postcode**. The same restaurant found from two
postcodes is two rows, because fee, minimum order, ETA, distance and open-for-delivery
all depend on where you search from.

```
restaurant_id, name, unique_name, url           identifiers; url is the menu page
search_postcode, search_area, position           what was searched; position = Just Eat's listing order
rating, rating_count                             stars (null if none shown) and number of ratings
cuisines, cuisine_slugs                          ["Indian","Curry"] / ["indian","curry"]
address_line, city, postcode, latitude, longitude, distance_meters
is_open_now, is_open_now_delivery, is_open_now_collection
is_delivery, is_collection, is_temporarily_offline, is_new, is_premier, is_promoted
delivery_cost, minimum_order                     GBP
delivery_fee_bands                               [{"minimum_order": 15, "fee": 2.5}, {"minimum_order": 99, "fee": 0}]
delivery_eta_min_minutes, delivery_eta_max_minutes, delivery_eta_approx_minutes
collection_eta_minutes
opening_time_local, delivery_opening_time_local  UK local time, no offset, as sent
logo_url, deals, tags
```

Dataset views: **Restaurants** and **Delivery fees and times**.

#### Null means "not given", never zero

- `rating` is **null when Just Eat reports 0 stars.** It writes 0 for restaurants nobody
  has rated and also for some that have ratings but show no stars (measured: ratings
  counts of 1 to 96 with 0 stars). No restaurant is rated zero stars, so 0 is a gap.
  `rating_count` is left as sent.
- On a **collection-only** restaurant Just Eat sends delivery cost 0 and minimum order 0.
  Those are fillers, not "free delivery", so `delivery_cost`, `minimum_order` and the
  delivery ETA are null and `delivery_fee_bands` is empty. On a restaurant that does
  deliver, 0 is real (a free tier, or no minimum).
- `delivery_cost` is the cheapest band on the fee ladder (measured equal to it on 196
  of 196 restaurants that publish one); `delivery_fee_bands` is the whole ladder.
- `deals` is passed through as sent. It was an empty list on every one of 2,059
  restaurants read on 2026-10-07, so this actor cannot yet tell you what a deal looks like.
- `tags` includes Just Eat's internal flags (for example `exclude-from-order-action`).
- A postcode Just Eat does not know, or one with nothing delivering, returns no rows and
  is named in the run log.

### Pricing

Pay per event: a small **actor start** fee plus one **restaurant scraped** event per
row. Set `maxItems` to cap spend.

### Limits

- UK only. Postcodes outside the UK, or malformed, are refused before any request.
- A snapshot: open-now flags, ETAs and fees change through the day.
- Not affiliated with Just Eat Takeaway.com.

# Actor input Schema

## `postcodes` (type: `array`):

UK postcodes to search, such as LS1 6AN or EC1A 1BB. A district alone (an outcode such as LS1) also works and returns a wider area. Spaces and case do not matter. A code Just Eat does not know is reported in the log and costs nothing but the actor start fee.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Most rows to return for each postcode, after the filters below, in the order Just Eat lists them. Each row is one billable event, so this is also a spending cap. Just Eat sends a postcode's whole restaurant list in one response (2,500+ for central Leeds), so a low cap does not make the run faster, only cheaper.

## `cuisine` (type: `string`):

Optional. Keep only restaurants with a cuisine whose name or slug contains this text, case-insensitive: pizza, indian, fish-and-chips, burgers. Matches Just Eat's own cuisine labels, not the restaurant's name.

## `openNowOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Off by default. When on, keep only restaurants that are open for delivery or for collection at the moment of the run.

## `minRating` (type: `number`):

Optional, 0 to 5. Keep only restaurants rated at least this many stars. Restaurants with no star rating (new, or rated by too few people to show stars) are dropped when this is set.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify datacenter proxy by default, which Just Eat's API answered from the platform on 2026-10-07. Just Eat sits behind Cloudflare, which refuses some addresses (a home connection in Japan got HTTP 403 on every request). A refused or timed-out request is retried from a fresh exit address.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "postcodes": [
    "LS1 6AN"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "openNowOnly": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `restaurants` (type: `string`):

No description

## `delivery` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "postcodes": [
        "LS1 6AN"
    ],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("superslowsloth/just-eat-restaurants").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "postcodes": ["LS1 6AN"],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("superslowsloth/just-eat-restaurants").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "postcodes": [
    "LS1 6AN"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call superslowsloth/just-eat-restaurants --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,superslowsloth/just-eat-restaurants"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/OcPKlxJO1f6mpWVVp/builds/1h14B9mr7mPdlSfDV/openapi.json