OpenTable API
Restaurant discovery and reservation API providing real-time availability and booking for 55,000+ restaurants globally via OpenTable's reservation network.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
HTTPS enforced; OAuth 2.0 for user actions; PCI-DSS compliance for payment handling on reservation deposits
⚡ Reliability
Best When
An agent needs to make real restaurant reservations — not just recommend — with real-time availability checking as part of a concierge or travel workflow.
Avoid When
You only need restaurant discovery/recommendations without transactional booking, or your target restaurants are independent and unlikely to be on OpenTable.
Use Cases
- • Searching for restaurants with real-time table availability for a given party size and time
- • Booking restaurant reservations on behalf of users in a concierge agent
- • Surfacing restaurant details, cuisine types, and neighborhood within travel apps
- • Canceling or modifying existing reservations programmatically
- • Building dining recommendation flows for travel and lifestyle platforms
Not For
- • Accessing Yelp-style user reviews or photos (OpenTable reviews are limited)
- • Menu data or pricing information
- • Delivery or takeout ordering
- • Restaurants not listed on the OpenTable network
Interface
Authentication
Affiliate/partner API access requires application approval. OAuth 2.0 used for user-level reservation actions. Read-only discovery endpoints use API key auth.
Pricing
Access requires affiliate program approval. Revenue model is per-cover fee on completed reservations. No self-serve sandbox — must apply to developer program.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ Developer program application required — no instant sandbox access
- ⚠ Availability is real-time; slots can disappear between search and booking — handle race conditions
- ⚠ Reservation creation is not idempotent — agents must avoid retrying on ambiguous failures
- ⚠ Documentation quality is below average; many edge cases undocumented
- ⚠ Partner approval process can take weeks — plan for long onboarding lead time
- ⚠ ToS restricts certain display formats and requires OpenTable branding on booking UI
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-07.