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RUN . 42 active pipelines . timeout.com live

Time Out data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract venue directories, event calendars, critical reviews, and local guides from Time Out. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Venues extracted
142K /run
Events tracked
89K /week
Reviews captured
312K /run
Active pipelines
42
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from timeout.com

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Venues & Restaurants objects from timeout.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

venue_idnamecategorysubcategorycityneighborhoodaddresslatitudelongitudecritic_ratinguser_ratingprice_tieropening_hourscontact_phonewebsite_urltimeout_url
venues_& restaurants
● 200 OK
"venue_id": "v-849201",
"name": "Dishoom",
"category": "Restaurants",
"neighborhood": "Covent Garden",
"city": "London",
"critic_rating": 4.0,
"price_tier": 2,
"latitude": 51.5126
# venue_idnamecategorysubcategorycityneighborhood
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Complete list of extractable fields for Events & Things to Do objects from timeout.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

event_idtitleevent_typevenue_namevenue_idstart_dateend_datetime_detailsprice_stringticket_urlcritic_ratingdescriptionimage_urlis_editors_pickcity
events_& things to do
● 200 OK
"event_id": "e-99214",
"title": "Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms",
"event_type": "Art",
"venue_name": "Tate Modern",
"start_date": "2026-05-18",
"price_string": "From 10 GBP",
"is_editors_pick": true,
"critic_rating": 5.0
# event_idtitleevent_typevenue_namevenue_idstart_date
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews & Ratings objects from timeout.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idtarget_idtarget_typeauthor_nameauthor_typeratingpublish_datetitlebody_textprosconsverdict
reviews_& ratings
● 200 OK
"review_id": "r-55123",
"target_id": "v-849201",
"target_type": "venue",
"author_type": "critic",
"rating": 4.0,
"publish_date": "2025-11-12",
"body_text": "A masterclass in Bombay comfort food.",
"verdict": "Highly recommended for group dining."
# review_idtarget_idtarget_typeauthor_nameauthor_typerating
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Complete list of extractable fields for City Guides objects from timeout.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

guide_idtitlecityauthorpublish_datelast_updatedcategoryintro_textfeatured_venuesfeatured_eventsurl
city_guides
● 200 OK
"guide_id": "g-1029",
"title": "The 50 best restaurants in London",
"city": "London",
"category": "Food & Drink",
"publish_date": "2026-01-10",
"featured_venues": "['v-849201', 'v-11234']",
"url": "https://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/best-restaurants-in-london"
# guide_idtitlecityauthorpublish_datelast_updated
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Complete list of extractable fields for Ticket Offers objects from timeout.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

offer_idevent_idtitleprovideroriginal_pricediscounted_pricecurrencydiscount_percentageavailability_statusvalid_untilbooking_url
ticket_offers
● 200 OK
"offer_id": "o-4821",
"event_id": "e-99214",
"provider": "Time Out Offers",
"discounted_price": 15.0,
"original_price": 25.0,
"currency": "GBP",
"discount_percentage": 40,
"availability_status": "Available"
# offer_idevent_idtitleprovideroriginal_pricediscounted_price
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Capabilities

Extract the cultural pulse of 333 cities

Our Time Out scraper normalises complex location data, nested event schedules, and critical reviews across all regional subdomains into a single predictable schema.

Venue Directory Extraction

Capture restaurant, bar, club, and attraction listings with precise geolocation, opening hours, and contact metadata.

Event Schedule Tracking

Extract start dates, end dates, recurring schedules, and venue associations for art exhibitions, gigs, and theatre shows.

Critic & User Reviews

Separate Time Out editorial reviews from user-generated ratings, capturing full text, star ratings, and publication dates.

Neighborhood Mapping

Map venues and events to specific city zones and neighborhoods using Time Out's internal taxonomy.

Ticket Pricing Signals

Monitor ticket prices, discount offers, and booking links for featured events and exclusive Time Out offers.

Editors Picks & Rankings

Identify highly curated lists like 'Top 50 Restaurants' or 'Best Things to Do This Weekend' to highlight premium inventory.

Global Subdomain Support

Scrape timeout.com/london, timeout.com/newyork, timeout.com/tokyo, and all other regional variants through one pipeline.

Weekly Event Refreshes

Keep event calendars accurate with weekly or daily delta crawls that identify new announcements and cancelled shows.

Category & Tag Normalisation

Standardise inconsistent tags across different cities into a clean, queryable category tree.

// engagement pipeline

From city list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target cities, categories, or specific guide URLs. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers, regional proxies, and pagination handling for timeout.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and location accuracy verification 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 Time Out pipeline handles the hard parts

Time Out uses heavy frontend caching, dynamic location routing, and varied page structures across cities. Here is how we extract clean data.

pipeline-monitor · timeout.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Location Routing
Bypassing forced geographic redirects

Time Out aggressively redirects users based on IP geolocation. We utilise region-specific proxy pools and strict cookie management to scrape New York data from London servers without triggering redirect loops.

Dynamic Calendars
Hydrating JavaScript event grids

Event dates and ticket availabilities are often loaded via client-side JavaScript. We execute full Playwright sessions to render these dynamic components before extracting the schedule data.

Schema Variations
Normalising inconsistent city templates

Older city guides on Time Out often use legacy DOM structures compared to flagship cities. Our selector chains handle multiple layout variations, ensuring a consistent output schema regardless of the city.

Pagination Limits
Extracting deep category archives

Time Out limits standard pagination on large categories. We map category sitemaps and utilise targeted search queries to extract the full venue directory, bypassing frontend display limits.

Data Freshness
Delta crawls for ephemeral events

Events expire rapidly. We maintain a hash index of active events and run high-frequency delta crawls to update statuses, add new announcements, and flag past events without re-scraping the entire city.

Applications

Who uses Time Out data and how

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

01
Travel Aggregators

Incorporate expert venue reviews and event schedules into travel booking platforms to enrich the user experience.

02
Local SEO & Reputation Management

Agencies monitor Time Out critic reviews and rankings to track client visibility in competitive urban markets.

03
Event Ticketing Competitors

Ticketing platforms track Time Out exclusive offers and featured events to analyse market pricing and demand.

04
AI Recommendation Engines

Machine learning teams use curated venue lists and editorial text to train hyper-local recommendation models.

05
Hospitality Market Research

Restaurant groups analyse neighborhood density, price tiers, and critic ratings to identify expansion opportunities.

06
Urban Planning & Real Estate

Firms correlate cultural density and event frequency with property values to assess neighborhood gentrification trends.

Why DataFlirt

"Time Out maps the cultural heartbeat of 333 cities globally, providing the most curated dataset of urban experiences and venues available."

Extracting this requires navigating complex geo-fenced routing, heavily nested event calendars, and inconsistent venue schemas across different regional subdomains. DataFlirt normalises these variations into a predictable, queryable schema so your team can focus on building products rather than fixing broken parsers.

Technical Spec

Time Out scraper technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Playwright sessions for dynamic event calendars and map widgets
Supported
Geo-targeted proxies
Region-specific IPs to bypass forced location redirects
Supported
Global city coverage
Extraction across all 333 Time Out city subdomains
Supported
Review separation
Distinct fields for Time Out editorial reviews versus user ratings
Supported
Event date parsing
Normalisation of text strings like 'Every Tuesday' into structured dates
Supported
Coordinate extraction
Latitude and longitude capture from embedded map data
Supported
Historical events
Archived event data past the current date
Supported
User account saved lists
Extraction of private 'My Time Out' saved venues or itineraries
Partial
Private event booking details
Checkout flow details requiring user authentication
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Time Out pipeline

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

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusAPIXLS
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across global regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.

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
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
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 directly
XLS
Formatted spreadsheets for non-technical teams
PostgreSQL
Direct database inserts with conflict resolution
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Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Time Out legal?

Scraping publicly available venue information, event schedules, and reviews from Time Out is generally permissible under applicable laws. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated data. We do not extract personal user data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should review Time Out ToS and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle Time Out location redirects?

Time Out redirects users based on IP geolocation. We use region-specific proxy pools and strict cookie management to ensure our crawlers access the exact city subdomain required, preventing redirect loops and inaccurate data.

Can you extract data from all 333 cities?

Yes. Our pipeline supports all global subdomains. We normalise the data into a single schema, accounting for regional layout variations and language differences where necessary.

How fresh is the event data?

For active event calendars, we configure delta crawls that run daily or weekly to capture new announcements, update availability, and flag expired events. Full venue directory refreshes typically run monthly.

Do you capture both critic and user reviews?

Yes. We separate Time Out editorial reviews (including star ratings and full text) from aggregated user ratings, ensuring you can distinguish expert opinions from general public sentiment.

How do you handle complex event dates like 'Every Thursday'?

Our extraction pipeline includes custom parsing logic to normalise recurring text strings into structured date formats and boolean flags, making the data immediately queryable in your warehouse.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 500 venues or events for a specific city as part of the pre-engagement scoping process so you can validate schema fit and data quality.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=timeout.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 venue directory extract or a continuous event-monitoring feed across 50 cities, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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