# /hotpepper/restaurants/search

`POST /api/hotpepper/restaurants/search`

Price: 10 credits

Search Hot Pepper Gourmet (ホットペッパーグルメ) restaurants within a prefecture by keyword and/or genre with optional filters: budget range (dinner or lunch), usage scene, amenity features (こだわり), smoking policy, online/instant reservation, points, takeout, smart payment and coupons. Returns restaurant cards with name, image, genre, area, catch copy, keywords, access, dinner/lunch budgets and coupon titles.

## How to use it

Search Hot Pepper Gourmet (ホットペッパーグルメ) restaurants. Always provide area (Japanese prefecture) and at least one of keyword or genre. Optional: budget_min/budget_max (JPY per person, budget_for_lunch to target lunch), scene, features (こだわり list), smoking, net_reserve, instant_reserve, point_earn/point_use/point_plus, takeout, smart_pay, covid_info, has_coupon. Use keyword to narrow by sub-area, station or dish. Each result has id ('J003433499'), url, name, image, genre, area, catch_copy, keywords, access, budget_dinner/budget_lunch and coupons.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `area` (string, required) — Prefecture to scope the search (one of: "hokkaido", "aomori", "iwate", "miyagi", "akita", "yamagata", "fukushima", "tokyo", "kanagawa", "saitama", "chiba", "ibaraki", "tochigi", "gunma", "niigata", "toyama", "ishikawa", "fukui", "yamanashi", "nagano", "gifu", "shizuoka", "aichi", "mie", "shiga", "kyoto", "osaka", "hyogo", "nara", "wakayama", "tottori", "shimane", "okayama", "hiroshima", "yamaguchi", "tokushima", "kagawa", "ehime", "kochi", "fukuoka", "saga", "nagasaki", "kumamoto", "oita", "miyazaki", "kagoshima", "okinawa")
- `keyword` (string, nullable) — Free-text keyword — narrows by sub-area, station, shop name or dish (e.g. '渋谷', '新宿駅', '刺身') (examples: "個室", "焼肉", "渋谷", "刺身")
- `genre` (string, nullable) — Restaurant genre filter (one of: "izakaya", "dining_bar", "creative_cuisine", "japanese", "western", "italian_french", "chinese", "yakiniku", "asian_ethnic", "world_cuisine", "karaoke_party", "bar", "ramen", "cafe_sweets", "other_gourmet", "okonomiyaki", "korean")
- `budget_min` (integer, nullable) — Minimum per-person budget (JPY) (min: 0)
- `budget_max` (integer, nullable) — Maximum per-person budget (JPY) (min: 0)
- `budget_for_lunch` (boolean) — Apply the budget filter to lunch instead of dinner (default: false)
- `scene` (string, nullable) — Usage scene filter (one of: "date", "friends", "family", "business_dining", "solo", "large_banquet", "company_banquet", "anniversary", "group_date")
- `features` (array) — Amenity/feature filters (こだわり) (default: []; one of: "course", "all_you_can_drink", "all_you_can_eat", "private_room", "horigotatsu", "tatami", "cocktails", "shochu", "sake", "wine", "card_ok", "charter", "parking", "barrier_free", "night_view", "live_show", "karaoke", "band", "tv_projector", "lunch", "open_after_23", "food_after_23", "english_menu", "pets_ok", "kids_ok", "wifi", "counter", "sofa", "terrace", "celebration", "e_money", "sunday_open")
- `smoking` (string, nullable) — Smoking policy filter (one of: "non_smoking", "separated", "smoking_ok")
- `net_reserve` (boolean) — Only restaurants with online reservation (default: false)
- `instant_reserve` (boolean) — Only restaurants with instant online reservation (default: false)
- `point_earn` (boolean) — Only restaurants where points can be earned (default: false)
- `point_use` (boolean) — Only restaurants where points can be spent (default: false)
- `point_plus` (boolean) — Only restaurants in the bonus-point (point plus) program (default: false)
- `takeout` (boolean) — Only restaurants offering takeout (default: false)
- `smart_pay` (boolean) — Only restaurants accepting smart (online) payment (default: false)
- `covid_info` (boolean) — Only restaurants publishing infection-control information (default: false)
- `has_coupon` (boolean) — Only restaurants with coupons (default: false)
- `count` (integer, required) — Max number of results to return (min: 1)

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "HotpepperSearchCard")
- `id` (string, required)
- `url` (string, required)
- `name` (string, nullable)
- `image` (string, nullable)
- `genre` (string, nullable)
- `area` (string, nullable)
- `catch_copy` (string, nullable)
- `keywords` (string, nullable)
- `access` (string, nullable)
- `budget_dinner` (string, nullable)
- `budget_lunch` (string, nullable)
- `coupons` (array) (default: [])

## 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.