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OpenTable data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract restaurant profiles, dynamic table availability, menus, and verified reviews from OpenTable. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Restaurants extracted
54.2K /run
Availability checks
1.2M /day
Review records
340K /week
Active pipelines
114
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from opentable.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Restaurant Profiles objects from opentable.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

restaurant_idnameurladdressneighbourhoodcitycountrycoordinatesprice_bandcuisinetop_tagsdescriptionexecutive_chefrating_overallreview_countoperating_hoursparking_details
restaurant_profiles
● 200 OK
"restaurant_id": "r-12345",
"name": "Gordon Ramsay Steak",
"city": "Las Vegas",
"price_band": "$$$$",
"cuisine": "Steakhouse",
"rating_overall": 4.8,
"review_count": 14592
# restaurant_idnameurladdressneighbourhoodcity
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Complete list of extractable fields for Table Availability objects from opentable.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

restaurant_idscrape_timestamprequested_daterequested_timeparty_sizeavailable_slotstime_slotseating_typeexperience_nameexperience_pricebooking_urlis_waitlist
table_availability
● 200 OK
"restaurant_id": "r-12345",
"requested_date": "2026-10-15",
"party_size": 2,
"time_slot": "19:30",
"seating_type": "Standard",
"experience_name": "Tasting Menu",
"experience_price": 250.0
# restaurant_idscrape_timestamprequested_daterequested_timeparty_sizeavailable_slots
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews & Ratings objects from opentable.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idrestaurant_iddiner_namedining_daterating_overallrating_foodrating_servicerating_ambiencerating_noisereview_texttagsrecommended
reviews_& ratings
● 200 OK
"review_id": "rev-9876",
"rating_overall": 5,
"rating_food": 5,
"rating_service": 4,
"rating_noise": "Moderate",
"review_text": "Exceptional steak.",
"recommended": true
# review_idrestaurant_iddiner_namedining_daterating_overallrating_food
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Complete list of extractable fields for Menus objects from opentable.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

restaurant_idmenu_namecategoryitem_nameitem_descriptionpricecurrencydietary_tagsupdated_at
menus
● 200 OK
"restaurant_id": "r-12345",
"menu_name": "Dinner",
"category": "Mains",
"item_name": "Beef Wellington",
"price": 75.0,
"currency": "USD",
"updated_at": "2026-05-12T00:00:00Z"
# restaurant_idmenu_namecategoryitem_nameitem_descriptionprice
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from opentable.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

keywordlocationdatetimeparty_sizepositionrestaurant_idnamepromotedavailable_timesratingreview_count
search_results
● 200 OK
"keyword": "Italian",
"location": "Manhattan",
"position": 3,
"restaurant_id": "r-999",
"promoted": false,
"rating": 4.6,
"available_times": "['18:00', '18:30']"
# keywordlocationdatetimeparty_sizeposition
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Capabilities

Everything you need from OpenTable - nothing you don't

Our OpenTable scraper handles every layer of the platform: restaurant metadata, dynamic availability polling, menu structures, and verified diner reviews - with automated GraphQL interception and anti-bot circumvention built in.

Full Restaurant Metadata

Name, location, coordinates, operating hours, chef details, and parking rules extracted for every listed venue.

Dynamic Availability Grids

Extract open time slots, seating types (bar, standard, outdoor), and waitlist status for specific party sizes and dates.

Verified Diner Reviews

Overall, food, service, and ambience ratings, noise level metrics, and full text from authenticated diners.

Menu & Pricing Extraction

Menu categories, item names, descriptions, and prices across lunch, dinner, and brunch menus.

Dining Experiences

Track special ticketed events, tasting menus, and prepaid experiences with associated pricing data.

SERP & Promoted Placements

Track search result rankings, promoted restaurant flags, and category visibility for specific neighbourhoods.

Global Coverage

Extract data from OpenTable US, UK, Canada, Australia, and all supported international domains.

Geospatial & Neighbourhood Mapping

Map restaurants to specific neighbourhoods, cross-streets, and transit hubs using OpenTable location tags.

High-Frequency Polling

Run availability checks at minute-level intervals to track booking velocity and sell-out rates.

// engagement pipeline

From target locations to warehouse records

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide city URLs, neighbourhood lists, or specific restaurant IDs. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and CAPTCHA handling for opentable.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, availability-outlier detection, and sample reviews before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our OpenTable pipeline handles the hard parts

OpenTable relies on complex GraphQL queries and aggressive bot detection. Here is how we maintain stable extraction at scale.

pipeline-monitor · opentable.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
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Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation + TLS spoofing

OpenTable uses sophisticated bot protection to block automated traffic. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints, randomised request timing, and full TLS spoofing to bypass these blocks.

GraphQL interception
Direct API parsing for availability data

OpenTable renders dynamic availability via complex GraphQL network requests. Instead of parsing the DOM, our Playwright infrastructure intercepts these XHR requests to extract raw JSON, ensuring high fidelity and speed.

Dynamic availability states
High-frequency concurrent polling

Time slots vanish in milliseconds during peak booking windows. Our concurrent architecture captures availability snapshots accurately across multiple party sizes and dates without triggering rate limits.

Geofencing & Localization
Locale-specific proxy routing

Availability and pricing can change based on IP origin. We route requests through locale-specific proxy pools to ensure data matches the experience of a local diner.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health with anomaly detection

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, missing time slots, schema drift, and coverage drops - and respond before you notice.

Applications

Who uses OpenTable data - and how

Teams across industries use opentable.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Competitor Intelligence

Restaurant groups track pricing, menu changes, and review sentiment across rival venues to optimise their own operations.

02
Real Estate & Foot Traffic Proxy

Investors use booking velocity and availability density as a proxy for neighbourhood economic activity and footfall.

03
Dynamic Pricing Models

Hospitality platforms ingest availability data to optimise their own yield management systems and dynamic pricing algorithms.

04
Market Research

Analysts track cuisine trends, price band shifts, and new openings across major metropolitan areas.

05
Alternative Data for Finance

Hedge funds monitor reservation volumes at publicly traded restaurant chains to forecast quarterly earnings.

06
Lead Generation

B2B food suppliers identify highly-rated, high-volume restaurants for targeted outreach and sales campaigns.

Why DataFlirt

"OpenTable holds the real-time pulse of global dining demand, but extracting availability grids requires intercepting dynamic GraphQL queries at scale."

Most teams fail at OpenTable scraping because they rely on slow DOM parsing. We intercept the underlying GraphQL network requests, handle bot challenges via residential proxies, and map complex availability nodes into flat, warehouse-ready schemas. DataFlirt absorbs the infrastructure burden so your analysts can query the data immediately.

Technical Spec

OpenTable scraper - technical capabilities

Everything supported by our opentable.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

GraphQL response parsing
Intercept network requests to extract raw JSON availability and menu data
Supported
Real-time availability grids
Extract open slots, seating types, and waitlist status for specific parameters
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs routed by target city to avoid geofencing
Supported
Menu item extraction
Parse nested menu categories, items, and pricing structures
Supported
Verified review pagination
Extract the complete review corpus including sub-ratings (food, service, noise)
Supported
Promoted search placement
Distinguishes organic vs promoted placements in OpenTable search results
Supported
International domains
Support for opentable.co.uk, opentable.com.au, and other regional variants
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed availability or menus since last run
Supported
User reservation history
Gated data detailing past bookings for specific diners requires authentication
Partial
Private diner profiles
Accessing private points balances and dining preferences is restricted
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the OpenTable pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusAPI
GraphQL Interception Stack

Playwright handles JavaScript execution and intercepts GraphQL network requests. Scrapy parses the structured JSON responses, bypassing fragile DOM selectors entirely.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across target regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required to bypass aggressive bot mitigation.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested - schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns - Excel/Sheets compatible
XLS
Excel format for direct analyst consumption
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery - compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
REST endpoints to query extracted datasets on demand
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
Snowflake
Stage + COPY INTO workflow - incremental or full-replace
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
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Common questions.

About opentable.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping OpenTable legal?

Scraping publicly available information from OpenTable is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated restaurant metadata, availability, and reviews. We do not extract personal data, circumvent authentication walls, or violate GDPR. Clients should review OpenTable's ToS and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle OpenTable's anti-bot protection?

We use residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on human behaviour. For availability data, we intercept GraphQL requests directly. We monitor for 403/CAPTCHA rate spikes in real time and trigger pool rotation automatically.

Can you track table availability for specific dates?

Yes. We configure pipelines to poll availability grids for specific dates, times, and party sizes. This data is extracted and delivered as structured time-series records.

Do you extract menu pricing?

Yes. We extract full menu structures, including categories, item descriptions, prices, and dietary tags across lunch, dinner, and brunch menus where available.

How fresh is the availability data?

Real-time streaming pipelines achieve sub-15-minute latency for availability signals on a defined restaurant set. Full city-wide metadata refreshes at daily cadence complete within a 6-hour window.

Can you scrape international OpenTable domains?

We support opentable.com, opentable.co.uk, opentable.com.au, opentable.ca, and other regional domains from a unified schema with currency normalisation.

Do you capture promoted restaurant placements?

Yes. We track SERP positions for specific keywords and locations, distinguishing between organic results and promoted/sponsored placements.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=opentable.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off restaurant catalogue dump or a continuous availability-monitoring feed across 10,000 venues - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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