OpenTable API

The OpenTable API for restaurant search and private dining.

Q: Is the OpenTable API free?

You get 100 free requests on signup, every endpoint included, no credit card. After that it is flat monthly plans starting at $49. One request equals one credit, with no per-endpoint multipliers.

Pull restaurants by location, cuisine, price band, rating, address, and private dining venues from OpenTable as clean JSON.

REQUEST GET

USE CASE Search OpenTable restaurants near coordinates for a date, time, and party size.

curl "https://api.stayapi.com/v1/opentable/search" \
  -G \
  -H "x-api-key: $STAYAPI_KEY" \
  -d "latitude=34.0634" \
  -d "longitude=-118.2806" \
  -d "date=2026-06-23" \
  -d "time=19:00" \
  -d "party_size=2" \
  -d "prices=[2, 3]"

USE CASE Find OpenTable venues that offer private dining near coordinates, filtered by capacity.

curl "https://api.stayapi.com/v1/opentable/private-dining" \
  -G \
  -H "x-api-key: $STAYAPI_KEY" \
  -d "latitude=32.8959" \
  -d "longitude=-97.0671" \
  -d "min_capacity=100" \
  -d "with_facets=true"

RESPONSE 200 OK

2.41s

{
  "success": true,
  "total": 250,
  "restaurants": [
    {
      "id": 67720,
      "name": "Perch LA",
      "url": "https://www.opentable.com/perch",
      "primary_cuisine": "French American",
      "dining_style": "Casual Elegant",
      "price_band": {
        "id": 3,
        "name": "$31 to $50",
        "currency_symbol": "$"
      },
      "rating": 4.5,
      "review_count": 12360,
      "neighborhood": "Downtown",
      "phone": "(213) 802-1770",
      "has_private_dining": true
    }
  ]
}

{
  "success": true,
  "total": 117,
  "server_total": 178,
  "restaurants": [
    {
      "id": 1331095,
      "name": "Soy Cowboy",
      "primary_cuisine": "Pan-Asian",
      "price_band": {
        "id": 3,
        "name": "$31 to $50",
        "currency_symbol": "$"
      },
      "rating": 4.6,
      "neighborhood": "Arlington",
      "is_instant_bookable": true,
      "space_count": 4,
      "private_dining": {
        "contact": "The Sales Event Manager",
        "phone": "(713) 804-3317",
        "email": "events@example.com",
        "largest_capacity": 200
      }
    }
  ]
}

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Overview

What the OpenTable API gives you.

OpenTable has no public data API for the restaurant listings and private dining venues that product and research teams actually need. The usual answer is a scraping stack: headless browsers, rotating proxies, a GraphQL gateway to reverse, and a parser that breaks every time the page changes.

StayAPI is that layer, run for you. You send coordinates with a reservation date, time, and party size, and get structured JSON back: restaurant name, cuisine, price band, guest rating, photos, structured address, phone, and feature flags. Ask for private dining and you also get the event contact, largest space capacity, and instant book flag. The same data, the same shape, on every call.

One key, restaurant data.

x-api-key in, JSON out. Restaurant search and private dining behind one base URL. No SDK to install.

We run the hard part.

Fetching, parsing, proxy rotation, and source uptime are ours. You consume normalized dining JSON and never touch the OpenTable GraphQL gateway.

Real-time, not cached.

Every call hits OpenTable live, so cuisine, ratings, and private dining contacts are current to the request, not a stale nightly snapshot.

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Endpoints

Every OpenTable endpoint, one base URL.

Each returns normalized JSON in the same shape. Click any endpoint for parameters, an example response, and a live playground.

GET Restaurant search /v1/opentable/search Find restaurants near coordinates for a date, time, and party size, with cuisine, price band, rating, address, and feature flags. GET Private dining /v1/opentable/private-dining Find venues that offer private dining near coordinates, with event contact, largest space capacity, and an instant book flag.

Browse the full OpenTable docs

Use cases

What teams build on the OpenTable API.

The same endpoints, pointed at different jobs. These are the ones we see most.

Restaurant discovery and search apps.

Power a dining search experience with live OpenTable restaurants by location and date: cuisine, price band, rating, neighborhood, and photos in one response.

Private dining and events sourcing.

Surface venues that host private events near a place, ranked by largest space capacity, with the event contact name, phone, and email ready to reach out.

Dining market and competitor analysis.

Benchmark a restaurant against nearby venues on rating, review count, price band, and recent reservation volume using the same fields for every listing.

AI concierge and dining agents.

Feed structured OpenTable restaurant and private dining data into an LLM tool call so your agent recommends from live listings, not stale embeddings.

Pricing

100 free requests on signup.
Pick a plan when you need more.

Flat monthly plans, every endpoint included on every plan. 1 request = 1 credit. No per-endpoint multipliers, no surprise overages.

01 Free

Wire it up. See the schema.

$0 to start

100 free requests on signup
Every endpoint included
No credit card required
Same schema as paid

Start free

02 Basic

Kick the tires in production.

$49 per month

1,500 requests / month
Every endpoint included
Per-endpoint usage dashboard
Email support

Start Basic

What people ask about the OpenTable API.

Don't see your question? Email us at info@stayapi.com.

Does OpenTable have a public API?

OpenTable runs partner and affiliate programs for restaurants and connectivity, but there is no open public API for pulling restaurant listings, cuisine, ratings, or private dining venues. StayAPI gives you that data over plain REST with a key you get in 30 seconds.

How do I search OpenTable restaurants?

Call /v1/opentable/search with a latitude, longitude, date, and time. You get matching restaurants with cuisine, price band, rating, address, phone, photos, and feature flags as JSON. See the restaurant search endpoint docs.

Can I get private dining options via API?

Yes. /v1/opentable/private-dining returns venues that host private events near your coordinates, each with the event contact name, phone, email, largest space capacity, and an instant book flag. Filter by min_capacity to match your party. See the private dining endpoint docs.

Is the OpenTable API free?

You get 100 free requests on signup, every endpoint included, no credit card. After that it is flat monthly plans starting at $49. One request equals one credit, with no per-endpoint multipliers.

Two ways to start.

Both end with live OpenTable data in your stack. The fast path is on the left.

01 · the fast path

Try it free

100 free requests after sign up. Fastest way to see if the schema fits.