DoorDash Scraper - turning a delivery listing into structured rows
DoorDash is one of the largest food delivery marketplaces in the United States, and for a great many restaurants it is now the shop window that matters most. Its listing page answers a specific question - which restaurants will deliver to this address - and answers it with a wall of cards, each carrying a name, a star rating, a review count, an estimated delivery window, a delivery fee and a distance. That design is right for a hungry person choosing dinner. It is wrong for anyone asking a question about the market rather than about one meal: how many competitors reach this postcode, how they are rated against each other, what the going delivery charge is on this street, which restaurants appeared this month and which quietly stopped. The DoorDash Scraper answers those by turning the listing into a table: one row per restaurant, nine columns, exported as CSV, JSON or Excel.
The single most important thing to understand about this data is that a DoorDash listing is generated for one delivery address. That is not a detail - it is the whole frame. Distance is measured from that address. The delivery window is quoted for that journey. The fee varies by merchant and by how far the restaurant is from where you asked it to deliver. Even the membership of the list is address-dependent: move a few miles and restaurants drop out while others appear. The export therefore has an implicit column that is not in the file, and the discipline that makes this data trustworthy is putting it back - one address per file, or the address stored alongside the run. Merge two addresses without that marker and you have a table in which the same column means different things on different rows, with nothing in the data to warn you.
Two further properties are worth planning for. The store rating is a Lifetime Rating on a 1–5 scale, and DoorDash states plainly that the exact calculation is not disclosed and that it weights recent feedback; it is not the arithmetic mean of the reviews counted beside it, and it will not reconcile with them. Use the review count as a confidence weight and a sample size rather than as the denominator of an average you can rebuild. And the delivery fee is the figure quoted to a visitor without a subscription: DashPass members pay no delivery fee on eligible orders meeting a subtotal minimum, and those minimums themselves vary by store, city and time of day. Both numbers are real and useful. Both describe a specific viewer in a specific place at a specific moment, and saying which is the difference between an analysis that holds up and one that quietly does not.
One honest note about the evidence behind this page. Every claim above is either the export's declared schema - the nine column names, identical on both of our local runs - or a documented property of DoorDash itself, taken from DoorDash's own help centre and merchant material. There are no scrape results here, because we have none: both of our runs were made against a placeholder URL rather than a real DoorDash listing and returned nothing, and the service is recorded internally as needing a residential proxy. So this page quotes no restaurant counts, no ratings, no fees and no delivery times, and none will be added unless a real export backs them. What the page does describe - what each column is for, and what DoorDash puts in that position - is accurate. Start free: your first 500 rows cost nothing and need no credit card.