# /grubhub/restaurants/search

`POST /api/grubhub/restaurants/search`

Price: 20 credits

Find Grubhub (grubhub.com) restaurants delivering to or available for pickup at a location (latitude/longitude) with optional filters: free-text keyword, fulfillment method, sort order, cuisines, price tier, rating, delivery time, offers, lowest fees, Grubhub+, open now, new, national brands, alcohol, order tracking and shared cart. Returns cards with name, rating, price tier, delivery fee, minimum, delivery time, distance and image.

## How to use it

Find Grubhub (grubhub.com) restaurants near a location. Provide latitude and longitude (of the delivery address) and count. Optional: keyword (free-text restaurant or dish name), order_method (delivery/pickup), sort (recommended/distance/fastest/rating/price_low/price_high), cuisines (one or more, they stack), price_max (1-4 dollar tier), top_rated (4 stars and up), under_30_min, offers, free_delivery, grubhub_plus, open_now, new_only, national_brands, alcohol, order_tracking, shared_cart. Each result has id, name, url, brand_name, chain_name, image, cuisines, rating, rating_count, price_rating, coupon_count, delivery_fee, delivery_minimum, delivery_time (+min/max minutes), distance (miles), open, delivery, pickup and is_new. Use the restaurant id with the restaurants endpoint for the full menu.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `latitude` (number, required) — Delivery location latitude (min: -90; max: 90)
- `longitude` (number, required) — Delivery location longitude (min: -180; max: 180)
- `count` (integer, required) — Max number of restaurants to return (min: 1)
- `keyword` (string, nullable) — Free-text search keyword (restaurant or dish name)
- `order_method` (string) — Fulfillment method (default: "delivery"; one of: "delivery", "pickup")
- `sort` (string) — Sort order (default: "recommended"; one of: "recommended", "distance", "fastest", "rating", "price_low", "price_high")
- `cuisines` (array) — Filter by cuisine (multiple cuisines stack) (default: []; one of: "Alcohol", "American", "Asian", "BBQ", "Bagels", "Bakery", "Bodegas", "Bubble Tea", "Burgers", "Chicken", "Chinese", "Coffee", "Dessert", "Fast Food", "Gluten-Free", "Hawaiian", "Healthy", "Indian", "Italian", "Japanese", "Kids Menu", "Korean", "Local Gems", "Mediterranean", "Mexican", "Noodles", "Pizza", "Sandwiches", "Seafood", "Shakes", "Smoothies", "Soup", "Steak", "Sushi", "Thai", "Vegan", "Vegetarian", "Vietnamese")
- `price_max` (integer, nullable) — Only restaurants at or below this dollar price tier (1-4) (min: 1; max: 4)
- `top_rated` (boolean) — Only restaurants rated 4 stars and up (default: false)
- `under_30_min` (boolean) — Only restaurants delivering in 30 minutes or less (default: false)
- `offers` (boolean) — Only restaurants with offers (default: false)
- `free_delivery` (boolean) — Only restaurants with the lowest delivery fees (default: false)
- `grubhub_plus` (boolean) — Only Grubhub+ eligible restaurants (default: false)
- `open_now` (boolean) — Only restaurants open now (default: false)
- `new_only` (boolean) — Only restaurants new to Grubhub (default: false)
- `national_brands` (boolean) — Only national brand / chain restaurants (default: false)
- `alcohol` (boolean) — Only alcohol stores (default: false)
- `order_tracking` (boolean) — Only restaurants with order tracking (default: false)
- `shared_cart` (boolean) — Only restaurants supporting group / shared carts (default: false)

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "GrubhubSearchRestaurant")
- `id` (string, required)
- `name` (string, nullable)
- `url` (string, nullable)
- `alias` (string, nullable)
- `brand_name` (string, nullable)
- `chain_name` (string, nullable)
- `image` (string, nullable)
- `cuisines` (array) (default: [])
- `rating` (number, nullable)
- `rating_count` (integer, nullable)
- `price_rating` (integer, nullable)
- `coupon_count` (integer) (default: 0)
- `delivery_fee` (number, nullable)
- `delivery_minimum` (number, nullable)
- `delivery_time` (integer, nullable)
- `delivery_time_min` (integer, nullable)
- `delivery_time_max` (integer, nullable)
- `distance` (number, nullable)
- `open` (boolean) (default: false)
- `delivery` (boolean) (default: false)
- `pickup` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_new` (boolean) (default: false)

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

The request body did not validate

What to do: Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.

- `detail` (array)
  - `loc` (array, required)
  - `msg` (string, required)
  - `type` (string, required)
  - `input` (any)
  - `ctx` (object)

### 408

The request ran past its time limit

What to do: Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.

### 412

The entity was not found, or a precondition failed

What to do: Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.

### 429

Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted

What to do: When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.

### 500

Something broke on our side

What to do: Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.

### 529

Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded

What to do: Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

## Response envelope

Success: Array of objects (may be empty if no results)

Error: Error may coexist with partial results if it occurs mid-execution. Check X-Error header and status code.

Every response carries these headers:

- `X-Error` — Error message text (present only on error)
- `X-Request-ID` — Unique request identifier
- `X-Execution-Time` — Execution time in seconds
- `X-Result-Count` — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
- `X-Total-Available-Results` — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
- `X-Warning` — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
- `X-Retry-After` — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.