# /justeat/restaurants/search

`POST /api/justeat/restaurants/search`

Price: 20 credits

Find Just Eat (just-eat.co.uk) restaurants and stores delivering to (or collectable from) a UK postcode, with optional filters: service type, cuisines/categories, open now, free delivery, deals, new and minimum rating. Returns cards with name, rating, review count, distance, delivery ETA and cost, cuisines, deals and image.

## How to use it

Find Just Eat (just-eat.co.uk) restaurants and grocery stores serving a UK postcode. Provide postcode and count. Optional: service_type (delivery/collection), cuisines (one or more category slugs, they all must match), open_now, free_delivery, has_deals, new_only, min_rating (0-5), sort (recommended/rating/distance/delivery_cost/fastest). Each result has id, name, alias, menu_url, image, address, rating, review_count, cuisines, distance_meters, eta_minutes, delivery_cost, minimum_delivery_value, is_delivery, is_collection, is_open_now_delivery, next_opening_at, deals and flags. Use a result's alias with the restaurants endpoint to get the full menu.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `postcode` (string, required) — UK delivery postcode (examples: "EC1A 1BB", "SW1A1AA"; minLength: 1)
- `count` (integer, required) — Max number of restaurants to return (min: 1)
- `service_type` (string) — Delivery or collection (default: "delivery"; one of: "delivery", "collection")
- `cuisines` (array) — Filter by cuisine/category (a restaurant must match all selected) (default: []; one of: "deals", "stampcard-restaurants", "halal", "burgers", "chicken", "breakfast", "groceries", "pizza", "indian", "italian", "coffee", "alcohol", "lunch", "asian", "american", "freebies", "kebabs", "sandwiches", "japanese", "chinese", "desserts", "sushi", "curry", "healthy", "convenience", "thai", "pasta", "mediterranean", "turkish", "greek", "mexican", "cafe", "lebanese", "grill", "shops", "korean", "bubble-tea", "noodles", "caribbean", "vietnamese", "fish-and-chips", "middle-eastern", "pharmacy", "burritos", "african", "health-and-beauty", "streetfood", "wraps", "bagels", "bakery", "british", "cakes", "european", "salads", "ethiopian", "bangladeshi", "brunch", "poke", "dinner", "icecream", "malaysian", "smoothies", "electronics", "italianpizza", "jamaican", "peri-peri", "pies", "southamerican", "biryani", "doughnuts", "milkshakes", "nepalese", "pakistani", "seafood", "drinks", "fusion", "hot-dogs", "oriental", "pubfood", "english", "south-indian", "tapas", "waffles", "afghanistani", "authentic-pizza", "bbq", "brazilian-food", "cantonese", "indo-chinese-fusion", "steak", "dim-sum", "glutenfree", "gourmet", "jerk", "pan-asian", "persian", "spanish", "eastern-european", "fastfood", "filipino", "frozenyogurt", "Moroccan", "nigerian", "portuguese", "venezuelan", "argentinian", "crepes", "english-breakfast", "flowers", "french", "ghanaian", "indonesian", "iranian", "latinamerican", "pancakes", "sichuan", "sri-lankan", "allnightalcohol", "beauty", "business-lunch", "columbian", "deli", "german", "gifts", "gourmetburgers", "iraqi", "kurdish", "peruvian", "polish", "roast-dinners", "singapore", "southafrican", "specialty", "syrian", "taiwanese", "ukrainian", "west-african", "meal_deal", "local-legends", "arabic", "baguettes", "balti", "carvery", "continental", "cuban", "egyptian", "georgian", "household", "hungarian", "paninis", "parmesans", "pet-supplies", "picknmix", "punjabi", "romanian", "rotisserie", "scottish", "smoke-house", "soup", "southindian", "subways", "supermarkets", "sweets", "tex-mex", "8off", "favouritespersonalised", "new")
- `open_now` (boolean) — Only restaurants open now for the chosen service type (default: false)
- `free_delivery` (boolean) — Only restaurants with free delivery (default: false)
- `has_deals` (boolean) — Only restaurants with active deals/offers (default: false)
- `new_only` (boolean) — Only newly added restaurants (default: false)
- `min_rating` (number, nullable) — Only restaurants with at least this average rating (min: 0; max: 5)
- `sort` (string) — Result ordering (default: "recommended"; one of: "recommended", "rating", "distance", "delivery_cost", "fastest")

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "JusteatSearchRestaurant")
- `id` (string, required)
- `name` (string, nullable)
- `alias` (string, nullable)
- `menu_url` (string, nullable)
- `image` (string, nullable)
- `address` (object, nullable)
  - `@type` (string) (default: "JusteatAddress")
  - `street` (string, nullable)
  - `city` (string, nullable)
  - `postcode` (string, nullable)
  - `latitude` (number, nullable)
  - `longitude` (number, nullable)
  - `country` (string, nullable)
- `rating` (number, nullable)
- `review_count` (integer, nullable)
- `cuisines` (array) (default: [])
- `distance_meters` (number, nullable)
- `eta_minutes` (number, nullable)
- `eta_lower` (number, nullable)
- `eta_upper` (number, nullable)
- `delivery_cost` (number, nullable)
- `minimum_delivery_value` (number, nullable)
- `is_delivery` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_collection` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_open_now_delivery` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_open_now_collection` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_open_now_preorder` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_temporarily_offline` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_new` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_premier` (boolean) (default: false)
- `next_opening_at` (string, nullable)
- `deals` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "JusteatDeal")
  - `description` (string, nullable)
  - `offer_type` (string, nullable)

## 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.