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RUN : 84 active pipelines : seamless.com live

Seamless data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract restaurant profiles, menu items, delivery fees, and user ratings from Seamless. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Restaurants extracted
114K /day
Menu items
4.2M /24h
Review records
312K /run
Active pipelines
84
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from seamless.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 seamless.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

restaurant_idnameurlcuisine_tagsaddresslatitudelongituderatingreview_countdelivery_feedelivery_time_mindelivery_time_maxpickup_availableoperating_hoursis_ghost_kitchenscraped_at
restaurant_profiles
● 200 OK
"restaurant_id": "314982",
"name": "Joe's Pizza",
"cuisine_tags": "['Pizza', 'Italian']",
"rating": 4.7,
"review_count": 2401,
"delivery_fee": 2.99,
"pickup_available": true,
"is_ghost_kitchen": false
# restaurant_idnameurlcuisine_tagsaddresslatitude
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Complete list of extractable fields for Menu Items objects from seamless.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

item_idrestaurant_idcategorynamedescriptionpricecurrencypopular_badgedietary_tagscalorie_countcustomisation_optionsimage_urlout_of_stockscraped_at
menu_items
● 200 OK
"item_id": "mi_849201",
"restaurant_id": "314982",
"category": "Specialty Pies",
"name": "Pepperoni Slice",
"price": 4.5,
"currency": "USD",
"popular_badge": true,
"dietary_tags": "['Contains Dairy', 'Contains Gluten']"
# item_idrestaurant_idcategorynamedescriptionprice
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Complete list of extractable fields for Delivery & Fees objects from seamless.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

restaurant_idtarget_zipcodebase_delivery_feeservice_fee_pctsmall_order_feeminimum_order_valuefree_delivery_thresholdgh_plus_eligibleestimated_tax_pctsurge_pricing_activescraped_at
delivery_& fees
● 200 OK
"restaurant_id": "314982",
"target_zipcode": "10014",
"base_delivery_fee": 2.99,
"service_fee_pct": 10.0,
"small_order_fee": 2.0,
"minimum_order_value": 10.0,
"gh_plus_eligible": true,
"surge_pricing_active": false
# restaurant_idtarget_zipcodebase_delivery_feeservice_fee_pctsmall_order_feeminimum_order_value
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews & Ratings objects from seamless.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idrestaurant_idauthor_namestar_ratingreview_textreview_dateorder_detailsmerchant_responseresponse_datehelpful_votesscraped_at
reviews_& ratings
● 200 OK
"review_id": "rev_918237",
"restaurant_id": "314982",
"star_rating": 5,
"review_text": "Best slice in the village. Arrived hot.",
"review_date": "2026-03-14",
"merchant_response": "Thanks for the love!",
"helpful_votes": 12,
"scraped_at": "2026-05-12T10:00:00Z"
# review_idrestaurant_idauthor_namestar_ratingreview_textreview_date
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from seamless.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

search_termlocation_latlocation_lngpositionrestaurant_idnamesponsored_badgedelivery_time_estdelivery_feeratingpromo_textscraped_at
search_results
● 200 OK
"search_term": "pizza",
"position": 3,
"restaurant_id": "314982",
"name": "Joe's Pizza",
"sponsored_badge": false,
"delivery_time_est": "25-35 min",
"promo_text": "$5 off your order of $20+",
"scraped_at": "2026-05-12T10:05:00Z"
# search_termlocation_latlocation_lngpositionrestaurant_idname
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Seamless, nothing you do not

Our Seamless scraper manages complex location spoofing, dynamic menu rendering, and fee calculation logic. We handle the session cookies and coordinate mapping to deliver accurate local data.

Precise Geolocation Spoofing

Seamless displays different restaurants and fees based on exact coordinates. We inject precise lat/long payloads into session cookies to extract hyper-local data.

Deep Menu Extraction

Capture categories, item names, descriptions, dietary tags, calorie counts, and complex nested customisation options across thousands of menus.

Dynamic Fee Tracking

Extract base delivery fees, service percentages, small order penalties, and minimum cart values specific to the target delivery zone.

Ghost Kitchen Identification

Cross-reference addresses and operational data to identify virtual brands and ghost kitchens operating out of shared facilities.

Review and Sentiment Mining

Extract full review text, star ratings, order context, and merchant responses to track customer satisfaction at the store level.

SERP and Sponsored Placements

Track organic versus sponsored ranking for specific cuisine searches across different postcodes and times of day.

Operating Hours and Status

Monitor store open/close status, scheduled operating hours, and temporary closures in real time.

Promotions and Discounts

Capture active promotional banners, threshold discounts, and loyalty program eligibility for competitive analysis.

Scheduled Cadence

Run extractions at specific times of day to capture lunch or dinner rush pricing dynamics and delivery time fluctuations.

// engagement pipeline

From target coordinates to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target postcodes, specific restaurant URLs, or cuisine keywords. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy and Playwright crawlers, location spoofing, session management, and proxy rotation for seamless.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, location accuracy verification, and sample menus before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

How our Seamless pipeline handles the hard parts

Food delivery platforms rely on strict location tracking and dynamic pricing. Here is how we stay resilient and why teams choose managed infrastructure.

pipeline-monitor · seamless.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
Location walls
Session cookie coordinate injection

Seamless heavily restricts data without a valid delivery address. Our crawlers programmatically inject precise latitude and longitude coordinates into the session state, allowing us to map local restaurant availability exactly as a user in that postcode would see it.

Dynamic rendering
Playwright execution for menu hydration

Restaurant menus and customisation options load dynamically via complex API calls. We run full Playwright browser sessions to trigger lazy-loading and capture nested modifier groups that headless HTTP clients fail to extract.

Rate limiting
Residential proxy rotation

Scraping thousands of menus triggers aggressive IP bans. We distribute requests across residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and randomised request timing to bypass perimeter defences.

Data standardisation
Normalised menu schemas

Restaurants format menus inconsistently. Our pipeline applies post-extraction normalisation to standardise dietary tags, price formats, and category names, ensuring clean data enters your warehouse.

Monitoring
24/7 pipeline health tracking

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, missing delivery fees, and coverage drops, responding before you notice any data gaps.

Applications

Who uses Seamless data and how

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

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Competitive Pricing Analysis

Restaurant groups monitor competitor menu prices, promotional offers, and delivery fees to optimise their own pricing strategies.

02
Market Expansion Planning

Ghost kitchen operators analyse cuisine saturation and review counts by postcode to identify underserved delivery zones.

03
Menu Optimisation

Food brands track popular badges, dietary trends, and modifier structures to engineer higher-converting menus.

04
Delivery Fee Tracking

Aggregators and analysts track dynamic service fees and minimum order values across different platforms to compare unit economics.

05
Sentiment Analysis

Franchise operators monitor store-level reviews and ratings to enforce quality control and operational standards across locations.

06
Alternative Data for Investors

Private equity firms track restaurant churn, review velocity, and promotional frequency to evaluate the health of food delivery markets.

Why DataFlirt

"Seamless holds the operational footprint of thousands of restaurants and ghost kitchens, but accessing that menu data requires bypassing strict location walls."

Most engineering teams underestimate the complexity of scraping food delivery platforms. Extracting accurate pricing requires managing session cookies for precise lat/long coordinates, rendering heavy JavaScript, and bypassing location-based rate limits. DataFlirt handles this infrastructure so you can focus on analysis.

Technical Spec

Seamless scraper technical capabilities

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

Coordinate injection
Programmatic lat/long session spoofing for precise local data
Supported
JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for dynamic menu hydration
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs from US pools rotated per request
Supported
Modifier group extraction
Nested customisation options and add-on pricing
Supported
Ghost kitchen detection
Address cross-referencing to flag virtual brands
Supported
Change detection
Hash-based diff to only emit records with changed prices or fees
Supported
User order history
Requires authenticated user credentials and violates privacy policies
Partial
Saved payment methods
Gated financial data behind strict authentication walls
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Seamless pipeline

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

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy and Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration and deduplication. Playwright manages JavaScript rendering, location cookie injection, and interaction flows for complex menus.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across US regions. Rotation happens per request with sticky sessions to maintain location state during menu extraction.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling for time-sensitive meal rush extractions. All state is 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 structures for complex menus
CSV
Flat file with typed columns for simple restaurant lists
XLS
Excel compatible files for operations teams
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 price monitoring
API
REST endpoints to query extracted menu states
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Seamless legal?

Scraping publicly available information from seamless.com is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated restaurant, menu, and pricing data. We do not extract personal user data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should review terms of service and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle location-based pricing?

We use precise latitude and longitude injection within our browser sessions. You provide the target postcodes or coordinates, and our crawlers simulate users in those exact locations to capture accurate delivery fees and local menu pricing.

Can you extract nested menu options and modifiers?

Yes. Our Playwright integration renders the full menu interface, allowing us to extract complex modifier groups, required add-ons, and conditional pricing logic that standard HTTP scrapers miss.

How fresh is the data?

We can schedule pipelines to run at specific times, such as immediately before the lunch or dinner rush, to capture dynamic delivery times and surge fees. Full market refreshes typically complete within a 4 to 8 hour window.

Can you identify ghost kitchens?

Yes. By cross-referencing restaurant addresses and operational data across the platform, we can flag multiple virtual brands operating from a single physical kitchen location.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our minimum engagements typically start at a defined list of 500 to 5,000 restaurants or specific postcodes with weekly delivery. Contact us with your target volume for a precise quote.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=seamless.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 menu dump for a single city or continuous price tracking across 50,000 restaurants, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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