Sonic API endpoint
Use Crawlora's Sonic Drive-In Location Suggest API to extract supported public Sonic data as structured JSON. This page includes request parameters, cURL examples, response schema, error behavior, credit cost, and a Playground link for testing before integration.
/sonic/location-suggestCompletes a partial address, place, city, state or ZIP into ranked matches, each already carrying the latitude and longitude that GET /sonic/nearby takes -- so a caller can run a Sonic restaurant search from free text instead of coordinates. Each suggestion's layer describes its granularity and is one of `address`, `locality`, `state`, `postalCode` or `place`, and confidence is one of `exact`, `interpolated` or `fallback`. Results are restricted to one country (default US). A query that matches nothing returns an empty suggestions array with count 0, not an error. Developers commonly use this endpoint for data enrichment, monitoring, research dashboards, internal automation, and agent-native workflows that need repeatable structured public web data. Authentication uses the documented Crawlora headers, and usage is metered with the credit cost shown on this page.
Request parameters are generated from the active endpoint catalog. Required values must be sent before Crawlora can call the upstream public web data source.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | Yes | Partial address, place, city, state or ZIP to complete | ||
| limit | integer | No | 5 | Maximum suggestions, 1-25. Defaults to 5. Upstream may return fewer. | |
| country | string | No | US | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code to restrict results to. Defaults to US. | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/sonic/location-suggest?query=coffee&limit=10&country=us" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.
Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Daily cap | Rate limit | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2,000 | 500 daily credits | 5/min | No overage |
| Starter | $9/mo | 20,000 | 5,000 daily credits | 15/min | $0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Growth | $29/mo | 100,000 | 25,000 daily credits | 45/min | $0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Pro | $79/mo | 400,000 | No daily cap | 120/min | $0.30/1,000 overage credits |
| Business | $199/mo | 1,200,000 | No daily cap | 300/min | $0.20/1,000 overage credits |
| Enterprise | $499/mo | 5,000,000 | No daily cap | 1,000/min | $0.12/1,000 overage credits |
This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.
Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.
| Status | Common failure case |
|---|---|
| 400 | Invalid input or missing required parameter |
| 429 | Plan or endpoint rate limit exceeded |
| 500 | Internal execution error |
| 502 | Upstream platform failed, returned unusable HTML, or served a challenge page that could not be resolved |
When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Too Many Requests | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"query": "2540 dell range",
"country": "US",
"limit": 5,
"count": 1,
"suggestions": [
{
"layer": "address",
"formatted_address": "2540 Dell Range Blvd, Cheyenne, WY 82009 US",
"label": "2540 Dell Range Blvd",
"number": "2540",
"street": "Dell Range Blvd",
"city": "Cheyenne",
"county": "Laramie",
"state": "Wyoming",
"state_code": "WY",
"postal_code": "82009",
"country": "United States",
"country_code": "US",
"latitude": 41.160549,
"longitude": -104.777671,
"confidence": "exact"
}
],
"source_url": "https://api.radar.io/v1/search/autocomplete?...",
"fetched_at": "2026-09-05T12:00:00Z"
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/sonic.locationSuggestResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | Code is the HTTP status code or a custom code used to indicate the result of the request @example 200 | |||
| data | sonic.LocationSuggestResponse | No | ||||
| data.count | integer | No | 5 | |||
| data.country | string | No | US | |||
| data.fetched_at | string | No | ||||
| data.limit | integer | No | 5 | |||
| data.query | string | No | cheyenne wy | |||
| data.source_url | string | No | ||||
| data.suggestions | array | No | ||||
| data.suggestions[].city | string | No | Cheyenne | |||
| data.suggestions[].confidence | string | No | exact | Confidence is the geocoder's own match confidence: "exact", "interpolated", or "fallback". | ||
| data.suggestions[].country | string | No | United States | |||
| data.suggestions[].country_code | string | No | US | |||
| data.suggestions[].county | string | No | Laramie | |||
| data.suggestions[].formatted_address | string | No | 2540 Dell Range Blvd, Cheyenne, WY 82009 US | |||
| data.suggestions[].label | string | No | 2540 Dell Range Blvd | |||
| data.suggestions[].latitude | number | No | 41.160549 | |||
| data.suggestions[].layer | string | No | address | Layer is the match's granularity: "address", "locality", "state", "postalCode", or "place". | ||
| data.suggestions[].longitude | number | No | -104.777671 | |||
| data.suggestions[].number | string | No | 2540 | |||
| data.suggestions[].postal_code | string | No | 82009 | |||
| data.suggestions[].state | string | No | Wyoming | |||
| data.suggestions[].state_code | string | No | WY | |||
| data.suggestions[].street | string | No | Dell Range Blvd | |||
| msg | unknown | No | Msg is the message that describes the result of the request @example "Request successful" |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/sonic/location-suggest?query=coffee&limit=10&country=us" \
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