How to use it: 3 steps
- Make a free Apify accountApify is the cloud platform where our tools run. The free plan gives you $5 of usage every month, no credit card needed. You pay Apify, not us.
- Paste your input and press StartNo code needed: you fill in a form (the input). It already has a working example. For example:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brooklyn-chop-house-new-yorkin Restaurant URLs or IDs. Each start is one run. - Download the resultsWhen the run ends, the results are in a table (the dataset). Open Output, press Export and pick Excel or CSV. JSON and the API are there too.
This tool is an Apify Actor: a small program that runs on Apify. You can also run it on a schedule, for example every Monday. New to it? Read how it works, step by step and the 8 words you need first.
What it does
Paste OpenTable restaurant links and get their guest reviews with overall, food, service, ambience and value ratings, the dined date and the restaurant's reply, or search OpenTable restaurants by city and get cuisine, price band, rating, review count, address and phone. No login, cookies or API key.
- Reviews — you add restaurant links or IDs. For each restaurant you get one restaurant row with its details, then its reviews, newest first (or highest / lowest rated first).
- Search — you add a city or area. You get the restaurants OpenTable lists there, one row per restaurant, with details from each restaurant page.
Good for
- Restaurant owners and marketing teams who watch their own and competitors' OpenTable reviews, ratings and replies.
- Analysts who compare restaurants in a city by cuisine, price band, rating and review count.
- Scheduled monitoring: with
reviewsSincea run reads only new reviews and stops at the first older one.
Who uses it
Restaurant owners
Read what guests say about your place and how fast you reply.
Marketing agencies
Watch the reviews of clients and their nearby competitors.
Market analysts
Compare restaurants in one city by cuisine, price band and rating.
Price
Pay per event: you pay for each result the tool saves, plus a small start fee for each run. The price includes Apify platform costs. Apify bills you, not us. Prices below are for the Apify free plan.
| What you pay for | Price | When |
|---|---|---|
| Start fee | $0.011 | Charged once per run, one fee per GB of memory. This tool uses 2 GB by default, so $0.022 per run. |
| Review | $0.0008 (from $0.00068 on paid Apify plans) | One OpenTable review saved in the Dataset, with its ratings, dined date and restaurant reply. |
| Restaurant | $0.003 (from $0.0026 on paid Apify plans) | One restaurant row saved in the Dataset (search result or the restaurant whose reviews you asked for). |
| Restaurant not found | $0.0015 | A restaurant link or ID that OpenTable does not have (404). The check is saved as a not_found row. Invalid, non-OpenTable links are free. |
Examples
- One result: about $0.02.
- 1,000 results: about $0.82.
- Every day 100 results, for 30 days: about $3.06 a month.
Free to try: the Apify free plan gives you $5 of usage every month, no credit card needed. That is enough for about 6,000 results.
Prices checked on 24 October 2026. See the current price on Apify.
Questions
Does it work with OpenTable UK or Canada?
Yes. Links from OpenTable country sites work, for example opentable.co.uk or opentable.ca. Numeric restaurant IDs work too.
Can I see table availability or menus?
No. The tool gets reviews and restaurant details only. It does not read bookings, menus or review photos.
How many reviews can I get for one restaurant?
OpenTable shows up to 10,000 reviews of one restaurant in one order. That is enough for most places.
Do I need a proxy or cookies?
No. It reads public pages without login, cookies or a proxy.
Which OpenTable sites work?
Links from any OpenTable country site, for example opentable.com, opentable.co.uk or opentable.ca, and numeric restaurant IDs. Search works with the location names OpenTable knows.
Why does Search find fewer restaurants than OpenTable says?
OpenTable's list pages change and overlap while you read them. For big cities the Actor may get fewer unique restaurants than the total OpenTable shows; it says so in a warning. Search a smaller area for a fuller list.
How fresh is the data?
Every row is read live during the run; fetchedAt shows when. Ratings on restaurant rows are OpenTable's averages of recent reviews.
Details
Step by step on Apify
- Open the Input tab.
- Keep What to scrape (
mode) as Reviews of restaurant URLs. - In Restaurant URLs or IDs (
restaurantUrls) keep the example link or paste your own, e.g.https://www.opentable.com/r/brooklyn-chop-house-new-york. - Keep Max reviews per restaurant (
maxReviewsPerRestaurant) at the prefilled 20. - Click Start.
- Open the Output tab, view Reviews, and check
rating,textanddinedAt.
Use cases
| Task | Input | You get | Key fields | Next step |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read guest feedback for a restaurant | restaurantUrls, maxReviewsPerRestaurant | review | rating, ratingFood, ratingService, text, dinedAt | Export CSV or Excel |
| Check how a restaurant answers reviews | restaurantUrls, sortReviewsBy: "lowest" | review | rating, restaurantReply, restaurantReplyAt | Spreadsheet or BI tool |
| Get new reviews every week | restaurantUrls, reviewsSince: "7 days" | review | reviewId, submittedAt, rating, text | Apify schedule + API |
| Build a restaurant list for a city | mode: "search", location | restaurant | name, cuisine, priceBand, rating, reviewCount, phone | CRM or map |
Tips for better results
- Use the date filter on a weekly schedule to get only new reviews.
- For a big city, search smaller areas to get a fuller restaurant list.
- Choose lowest rated first to find problems quickly.
Limits and good to know
- No reservations, table availability, menus or review photos (only
photoCount) - Only public data. The Actor does not log in and does not return private diner data
- OpenTable shows at most 10,000 reviews of one restaurant in one order. For more, run again with another
sortReviewsBy - One run opens at most 40 OpenTable pages, because OpenTable blocks more. In Reviews mode that is 40 restaurants per run (reviews themselves do not count). In Search mode with details, about 38 restaurants get full details; the rest come with search-list data only
- Search returns at most 1,000 restaurants per run (the
maxItemsmaximum). OpenTable may list fewer unique restaurants for a big city - If OpenTable refuses every address the Actor tries in about two minutes, the run fails with a clear message; it does not return an empty result as success. Residential use per run is capped; past the cap the run goes on from its own address
For developers
Sample result
One result from a real test run, in JSON. Real values change from run to run. In Excel or CSV each field is a column.
{
"type": "review",
"restaurantId": 1017331,
"restaurantName": "Brooklyn Chop House - Downtown",
"restaurantUrl": "https://www.opentable.com/r/brooklyn-chop-house-new-york",
"reviewId": "OT-1017331-261886-120047159362",
"rating": 5,
"ratingFood": 5,
"ratingService": 5,
"ratingAmbience": 4,
"ratingValue": 4,
"noise": "ENERGETIC",
"text": "loved the ambiance. Alex, our waiter, was FABULOUS! My filet was cooked to perfection…",
"dinedAt": "2026-09-30T18:30:00-04:00",
"submittedAt": "2026-10-01T21:53:34Z",
"reviewerName": "Diner1",
"reviewerMetro": "County Durham",
"reviewerReviewCount": 8,
"reviewerIsVip": false,
"helpfulUp": 0,
"helpfulDown": 0,
"restaurantReply": null,
"restaurantReplyAt": null,
"verified": true,
"fromPreviousConcept": false,
"photoCount": 0,
"source": "opentable",
"fetchedAt": "2026-10-14T15:29:52.739Z"
}Use it from code
Actor ID: cliqtomedia/opentable-reviews-scraper. You need your Apify API token from Apify Console → Settings → API & Integrations.
from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("cliqtomedia/opentable-reviews-scraper").call(run_input={
"mode": "reviews",
"restaurantUrls": [
"https://www.opentable.com/r/brooklyn-chop-house-new-york"
]
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
print(item)curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cliqtomedia~opentable-reviews-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"mode": "reviews", "restaurantUrls": ["https://www.opentable.com/r/brooklyn-chop-house-new-york"]}'# pip install langchain-apify
# set APIFY_TOKEN in your environment
from langchain_apify import ApifyActorsTool
tool = ApifyActorsTool("cliqtomedia/opentable-reviews-scraper")
result = tool.invoke({"run_input": {"mode": "reviews", "restaurantUrls": ["https://www.opentable.com/r/brooklyn-chop-house-new-york"]}})
print(result)The cURL call waits for the results, up to 300 seconds. For longer runs, start a run (/runs) and get the results with a webhook or by checking the run. Apify API docs. LlamaIndex, MCP for AI agents and the JavaScript client: AI agents & MCP.
Data fields (40)
| Field | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
type | string | review: one guest review (Reviews mode). restaurant: one restaurant (Search mode), or a restaurant input that could not be read (Reviews mode, status not_found or error). |
status | string | Restaurant rows only. complete: read; partial: search listing data only because the restaurant page could not be read (see error); not_found: OpenTable has no such restaurant; error: invalid input or unreadable page. not_found rows cost the lower Restaurant not found price; error rows are free. |
restaurantId | integer | OpenTable restaurant ID. |
name | string | Restaurant name. |
url | string | Restaurant page on OpenTable. |
cuisine | string | Primary cuisine. |
cuisines | array | All cuisines listed on the restaurant page. |
priceBand | string | Price per person as OpenTable shows it, e.g. "$31 to $50". |
priceLevel | integer | Price level 1 (cheapest) to 4. |
currencySymbol | string | Currency symbol of the price band. |
rating | number | Overall rating 1–5 (on reviews: the diner's overall rating; on restaurants: OpenTable's average based on recent reviews). |
ratingFood | number | Food rating 1–5. |
ratingService | number | Service rating 1–5. |
ratingAmbience | number | Ambience rating 1–5. |
ratingValue | number | Value rating 1–5. |
ratingNoise | number | Restaurants: average noise level 1 (quiet) to 3 (energetic). |
ratingCount | integer | Restaurants: number of recent reviews the ratings are based on. |
ratingDistribution | object | Restaurants: number of recent reviews with 1–5 stars. |
reviewCount | integer | Restaurants: all-time number of written reviews on OpenTable. |
address | string | Full address. |
street | string | Street address. |
city | string | City. |
state | string | State or region. |
postalCode | string | Postal code. |
country | string | Country. |
countryCode | string | Country code, e.g. US, GB. |
neighborhood | string | Neighborhood. |
metro | string | OpenTable metro area. |
latitude | number | Latitude. |
longitude | number | Longitude. |
phone | string | Phone number. |
website | string | Restaurant website. |
diningStyle | string | Dining style, e.g. Casual Dining. |
dressCode | string | Dress code. |
executiveChef | string | Executive chef. |
hours | string | Opening hours as text. |
paymentOptions | array | Accepted payment methods. |
description | string | Restaurant description. |
reviewSummary | string | OpenTable's summary of recent reviews. |
awards | array | OpenTable awards. |
Input settings (8)
The main fields of the input form. With the API you send them as JSON.
| Setting | Name in the API | Type | Example value |
|---|---|---|---|
| What to scrape | mode | string | "reviews" |
| Restaurant URLs or IDs | restaurantUrls | array | ["https://www.opentable.com/r/brooklyn-chop-house-new-york"] |
| Location | location | string | |
| Max reviews per restaurant | maxReviewsPerRestaurant | integer | 20 |
| Max results | maxItems | integer | |
| Review order | sortReviewsBy | string | "newest" |
| Only reviews since | reviewsSince | string | |
| Include restaurant details | includeRestaurantDetails | boolean | true |
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