# OpenMenu, free, GET /api/v2/location.php: Local business search API

> Find restaurants, menus, and menu items by location and query.

OpenMenu's Local business search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. OpenMenu's docs list 5 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates.
We haven't run OpenMenu through [our Local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 239 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.365 per 1,000 places or less.
[SerpData's $200 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpdata/200-pack-growth-post-google-maps-search-places/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.0004. SerpData charges for each page of results. We count 200 places on each page to get the $0.0004 price.
[LocationIQ](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/100-monthly/llms.txt), [ScrapeField](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/39-pack/llms.txt) and [TomTom](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-grow-tier-1-get-search-2-poisearch-query-ext/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openmenu/free-get-api-v2-location-php
- [Local business search API: the 19 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.openmenu.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://www.openmenu.com/api/v2/location.php`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.openmenu.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.openmenu.com/api/docs/location.php?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: OpenMenu (https://www.openmenu.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 63%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: search · restaurant · deals · ingredients

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find restaurants, menus, and menu items by location and query.

## Data

- Keep data: Caching is only allowed with expressed written permission from OpenMenu. If caching is allowed your API page on OpenMenu will explicitly say that caching is allowed. Without this notice caching is not allowed.
- Use data: Subject to these Terms, Open Menu, LLC may offer to provide certain services, solely for your own personal, non-commercial use. You shall not store any significant portion of any content [...] retrieved by you thorugh the API or directly through an OpenMenu URL in any form [...]. Copying or storing of any Content for other than personal, non-commercial use is expressly prohibited without prior written permission from Open Menu, LLC or from the copyright holder identified in such Content's copyright notice. [...] Any Content obtained through the API, or provided by OpenMenu.com, may not be used to offer or promote services that are damaging to, disparaging of, or otherwise detrimental to OpenMenu, OpenMenu.com, Open Menu LLC or its licensors, licensees, affiliates, registrars and partners. Content obtained through the API or connected directly to through the restaurant's OpenMenu URL may be accessed, used and stored locally ("cached" or "caching" - only as outlined in section 3.2.1 on caching) for personal, commercial or non-profit use. Any Content obtained through the API or connected directly to through a restaurant's OpenMenu URL may not be redistributed, to include but not limited to an API or data dumps or public URL in any format except rendered for customers, without expressed written permission from Open Menu, LLC. [...] Your use of the API must not: circumvent or modify any Keys or other security mechanism employed by OpenMenu.com, Open Menu, LLC or the API, use the Content in an API, or similar delivery method or technology, in a way that competes with and/or negates this API, circumvent, or restrict in any way, the ability of Open Menu, LLC to monitor, track, store, and/or analyze your usage of this API, use the Content in a way that violates this Agreement or our standard Terms of Service, use our Content with, in or in connection with your Application that falsely expresses or implies that such content is sponsored or endorsed by Open Menu, LLC, modify, change or alter the Content prior to display in a way as to give the impression that the altered Content was obtained from OpenMenu.com or this API, redistribute in any way or form the content received via the updates API call, place the Content on a site promoting illegal activity, have an application which uses the OpenMenu trademark or infringes on any/all OpenMenu trademarks. Use of the word/phrase/term OpenMenu is prohibited, 

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits a month
- Enough for: 100 pages a month
- Expires: at the end of the calendar month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 100
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of postal_code or city, country. Optional: s, offset, state
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v2/location.php

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up and confirms an email address

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

place ID, name, description, address, address line 2, city, state, postal code, country, latitude, longitude, category, website, mobile phone, Facebook URL, Twitter URL, deal count, date updated

## OpenMenu's plans (5)

- [OpenMenu, free, GET /api/v2/location.php](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openmenu/free-get-api-v2-location-php/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [OpenMenu, $40 pack, Purchased credits, GET /api/v2/location.php](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openmenu/40-pack-purchased-credits-get-api-v2-location-php/llms.txt): 63% complete
- [OpenMenu, $39 monthly, Starter, GET /api/v2/location.php](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openmenu/39-monthly-starter-get-api-v2-location-php/llms.txt): 63% complete
- [OpenMenu, $99 monthly, Growth, GET /api/v2/location.php](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openmenu/99-monthly-growth-get-api-v2-location-php/llms.txt): 63% complete
- [OpenMenu, contact us, Enterprise, GET /api/v2/location.php](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openmenu/contact-us-enterprise-get-api-v2-location-php/llms.txt): 63% complete

## OpenMenu's calls (2)

- `GET /api/v2/location.php`: [OpenMenu, free, GET /api/v2/location.php](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openmenu/free-get-api-v2-location-php/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/v2/search.php`: [OpenMenu, free, GET /api/v2/search.php](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openmenu/free-get-api-v2-search-php/llms.txt)

## OpenMenu's APIs (1)

- [OpenMenu: Local business search API pricing, 5 plans, GET /api/v2/location.php](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openmenu/free-get-api-v2-location-php/llms.txt)

## OpenMenu: Local business search API alternatives

- [LocationIQ, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [ScrapeField, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours
- [TomTom, free, GET /search/2/categorySearch/{query}.{ext}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/free-get-search-2-categorysearch-query-ext/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Azure Maps, free, Gen2 Free, GET /search/poi/{format}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/azure-maps/free-gen2-free-get-search-poi-format/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

- https://www.openmenu.com/api/docs/authentication.php?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.openmenu.com/api/docs/location.php?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.openmenu.com/api/docs/pagination.php?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.openmenu.com/api/docs/rate-limiting.php?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.openmenu.com/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.openmenu.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.openmenu.com/signup.php?at=developer&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.openmenu.com/tos-api.php?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing