SkipTheDishes Scraper — Restaurants, Menus, Prices & Offers

Scrape SkipTheDishes, Canada's food delivery app, city by city. You get every restaurant and store in a city (open and closed), full menus with prices, item options, delivery fees for a specific address, active offers, and restaurant phone numbers, addresses and ordering hours. It also covers grocery, convenience and liquor store catalogs.

No SkipTheDishes account or login is needed. It runs on plain HTTP requests (no browser), so it's fast: Toronto's full list of ~5,000 restaurants takes under 15 seconds.

What you can scrape

Input	What you get
A city (Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal, St. John's…)	Every restaurant and store listed there, open and closed: name, cuisines, Skip score, delivery time, street and coordinates, image and offers
A province (ON, BC, QC…) or all	Every city in that province, or all ~180 SkipTheDishes cities in Canada, de-duplicated
A delivery location (43.6532, -79.3832)	Only the restaurants that deliver to that spot, with the live delivery fee (including "free over $X" tiers), order minimum, distance and delivery time for that address
Restaurant URLs	Details and menus for exactly those restaurants
A dish (butter chicken, poutine, pho)	Only the restaurants whose menu has that dish (SkipTheDishes' dish search covers restaurants open at run time)

Optional add-ons:

• Restaurant details add:
  • the full address with postal code
  • the phone number
  • a rating out of 10
  • whether it's open now, and when it next opens
  • today's ordering hours
  • the delivery-time range
  • every active offer: the free item and its order minimum, BOGO items, and "$X off orders over $Y"
• Full menus give every item with its price (CAD), description, image, availability and a popular flag. Grocery, convenience and liquor stores return their whole product catalog instead, with size, sold-by-weight and estimated-price flags. A 7-Eleven, for example, has 1,000+ products.
• Item options give each item's option groups, such as "Choose a size" or "Add toppings". Each group has its minimum and maximum picks and the price of every option.

Use cases

• Menu price monitoring. Track what restaurants and chains charge on delivery, compare prices across cities, and watch price changes over time.
• Delivery fee research. Compare delivery fees, order minimums and delivery times by neighbourhood or postal-code area.
• Restaurant lead generation. Build lists of Canadian restaurants with their phone number, street address, postal code, cuisine and rating, for POS, marketing, supplier and local-services sales.
• Market research. Measure cuisine mix, chain footprint, new openings (isNew), sponsored placements and how common deals are in any Canadian city.
• Competitor analysis. Pull every location of a chain and its menu, or find everyone who sells a dish in your area.
• Retail and liquor pricing. Get convenience, grocery and beer/wine/spirits store catalogs with prices.

Input examples

All restaurants in two cities, list only (fastest):

{ "cities": ["Toronto", "Calgary"] }

Restaurants delivering to an address, with fees, open now, with a deal:

{ "location": "43.6532, -79.3832", "includeClosed": false, "onlyWithOffers": true }

Who sells poutine in Montréal, with phone numbers and menus:

{ "cities": ["Montréal"], "dishQuery": "poutine", "includeDetails": true, "includeMenus": true }

Menus of specific restaurants as a flat item table:

{
  "restaurantUrls": ["https://www.skipthedishes.com/asian-gourmet-dundas-street-east"],
  "outputFormat": "menuItems",
  "includeModifiers": true
}

A sample of every city in Ontario:

{ "cities": ["ON"], "maxRestaurantsPerCity": 20, "restaurantTypes": ["FULL_SERVICE"] }

Output

One row per restaurant (menu nested), or one row per menu item with "outputFormat": "menuItems". All prices are in Canadian dollars. This row is shortened:

{
  "id": "bca27578-d0ce-4d02-88b3-07cdeef8e125",
  "name": "4 Brothers Pizza",
  "url": "https://www.skipthedishes.com/4-brothers-pizza-commercial-dr",
  "type": "FULL_SERVICE",
  "cuisines": ["Pizza", "American", "Canadian", "Fast Food"],
  "isOpen": true,
  "skipScore": 83,
  "rating": 8.3,
  "estimatedDeliveryMinutes": 19,
  "street": "1914 Commercial Dr",
  "city": "Vancouver",
  "province": "BC",
  "postalCode": "V5L 3Y4",
  "fullAddress": "1914 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, V5L 3Y4",
  "phone": "(604) 215-0111",
  "phoneE164": "+16042150111",
  "latitude": 49.2674196,
  "longitude": -123.0694239,
  "timeZone": "America/Vancouver",
  "etaMinMinutes": 24,
  "etaMaxMinutes": 34,
  "orderingHours": [{ "opens": "2026-09-23T17:00:07Z", "closes": "2026-09-24T06:35:07Z", "local": "Wed 10:00 – Wed 23:35" }],
  "offers": [{ "type": "bogo", "orderMinimum": null }],
  "offerDetails": {
    "bogoItems": [{ "item": "Cheesey Garlic Bread (10 pcs)", "itemPrice": 8.95 }],
    "freeItems": [],
    "flatDiscounts": []
  },
  "menuType": "menu",
  "menuItemCount": 237,
  "menu": [
    {
      "category": "Deals",
      "items": [
        { "id": "8ab48ab5-…", "name": "Deal 2 - Everyday Value Pack - Large Four-Topping Pizza", "price": 17.99,
          "description": "One order comes with a large pizza with your choice of four toppings.", "available": true, "popular": false }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-24T05:20:05.636Z"
}

In location mode, each row also carries the live delivery pricing for that address:

{ "name": "Pizza St Laurent", "deliveryFee": 3, "orderMinimum": 0,
  "deliveryFeeTiers": [{ "fee": 3, "orderMinimum": 0 }], "distanceKm": 1.08, "estimatedDeliveryMinutes": 21 }

Field notes

• type is one of:
  • FULL_SERVICE (restaurant)
  • QUICK_SERVICE (fast food)
  • GROCERY (grocery and bakery)
  • CONVENIENCE_STORE
  • ALCOHOL (liquor and beer stores)
• skipScore is SkipTheDishes' 0–100 score. rating is the same score out of 10, as shown in the app.
• deliveryFee, orderMinimum, deliveryFeeTiers and distanceKm are filled only when you give a delivery location. City-wide lists have no single address to price against.
• deliveryFeeTiers lists every fee tier. For example, [{fee: 1.79, orderMinimum: 0}, {fee: 0, orderMinimum: 20}] means $1.79 delivery, free on orders over $20.
• isOpen shows whether the restaurant is taking orders at run time. The details add-on also gives:
  • closedReason
  • opensAt, the next opening time
  • orderingHours, in UTC plus the restaurant's local time
• phone is the phone number the restaurant publishes on SkipTheDishes for allergy questions. A few restaurants don't publish one.
• popular: true marks the items SkipTheDishes lists under "Popular Items". Each item appears only once, in its real category.
• menuType is menu for restaurants and retailCatalog for grocery, convenience and liquor stores. Catalog products add size, soldBy (SOLD_BY_EACH / SOLD_BY_WEIGHT) and isPriceEstimated.
• menuTruncated / modifiersDropped appear only on the rare row that would exceed Apify's 9 MB item limit (a huge menu with every option group). Use the "One row per menu item" output to get such a menu in full.

FAQ

Do I need an account, a login or cookies? No login needed. The actor reads the same public restaurant lists, menus and store details anyone sees on SkipTheDishes without signing in. No SkipTheDishes account, cookies or API key.

Is it legal to scrape SkipTheDishes? This Actor only collects publicly available business data: restaurant and store listings, menus and prices, fees, offers, opening hours, addresses and the phone numbers restaurants publish for customers. It never collects data about people: no customer accounts, no order history, no reviews or reviewer names. Collecting publicly available data is generally legal, but you're responsible for how you use it. You must follow SkipTheDishes' terms and the privacy and anti-spam laws that apply to you (for example PIPEDA and CASL in Canada) — especially before contacting businesses with the phone numbers. If you're unsure, check with a lawyer. More on this: Is web scraping legal?

Does it access any private data? No. It never logs in and never queries customer or order data. It also never gets around SkipTheDishes' bot protection: if SkipTheDishes refuses requests, the run stops early, keeps what it saved, ends successfully and says so in the status message.

How many restaurants can I get? A city returns its entire list at once: Toronto has ~5,000, Vancouver ~2,400, Calgary ~2,600 and Winnipeg ~1,200. The lists of neighbouring cities overlap, and duplicates across cities are removed automatically.

Why are most restaurants "closed"? Restaurants are only "open" during their ordering hours. Run the scraper during lunch or dinner for more open restaurants, or turn off Include restaurants that are closed right now to keep only the open ones.

How fast is it? A city list takes 2–15 seconds. With details and full menus, it handles about 60 restaurants (20,000+ menu items) in roughly 10 seconds at the default concurrency.

Do I need a residential proxy? No. The default automatic Apify Proxy (datacenter, included in every Apify plan) works. If a request is refused, the scraper retries on a fresh IP; if SkipTheDishes keeps refusing, the run stops early with what it has.

What if my timeout is short? The run stops a little before its timeout, keeps everything it saved and ends successfully. If the timeout was too short to get anything, the status message says what to set (120 s is plenty for a city list). A short summary of every run is saved as RUN_REPORT in the run's key-value store.

What does it cost? You pay per restaurant row, per menu item and per store product delivered, plus a small fee when a run starts. A run that finds nothing saves nothing.

Is it in French? Menus come back exactly as each restaurant wrote them, so Québec restaurants are often bilingual.

What if a city isn't found? The log suggests close matches. Use a two-letter province code or all to see every city SkipTheDishes serves.

Can I get reviews? SkipTheDishes doesn't publish written reviews. The Skip score and rating are its only public rating signals, and both are included.

Tips

• Leave the add-ons off to get just the restaurant list: it's one request per city and the cheapest way to cover a region.
• Use Max restaurants per city with all or a province to get a balanced sample across Canada.
• Item options make one request per menu item, so pair them with Max menu items per restaurant.
• Schedule the actor daily or weekly to track menu prices, deals and new restaurants over time.