ChowNow Scraper

Extract local restaurant ordering pages, menu items, and direct-order pricing from ChowNow.

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target
chownow.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/chownow.com/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/chownow.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://chownow.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "restaurant_name": "string",
    "menu_items": "string",
    "price": "string",
    "category": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "hours": "string",
    "location": "string",
    "order_type": "string"
  }
}

# ChowNow Scraper

**Restaurant name**: string
**Menu items**: string
**Price**: string
**Category**: string
**Description**: string
**Hours**: string
**Location**: string
**Order type**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from chownow.com with a single POST. Call it with no selectors and the model names the fields, or pass your own CSS to skip the AI.

chownow-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://ordering.chownow.com/order/restaurant-name/locations");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://ordering.chownow.com/order/restaurant-name/locations");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const items = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".menu-item-card").forEach(el => {
    const name = el.querySelector(".menu-item-name")?.textContent?.trim();
    const price = el.querySelector(".menu-item-price")?.textContent?.trim();
    const desc = el.querySelector(".menu-item-description")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (name) items.push({ name, price, description: desc?.slice(0, 150) });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: items.length, items: items.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/chownow.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/chownow.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={},
)
print(resp.json())

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/chownow.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({}),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);