API for getting business hours at a location?

Question

Are there any APIs that will provide the hours of operation for a business at a particular location? Google Places, SimpleGeo, and Yelp don\'t seem to expose it. If not, is th

Answer 1

Do you have any news on this thread?

I stumbled upon hoursmap.com trying to solve this, and even e-mailed them, but no response so far.

A scraper may be the best we can do, at least until features requiring business hours find more momentum.

As far as the need to handle siesta times, I believe you can handle this, worst case by writing something like "open between 9-12 and 14-18 on each weekday." I don't think that's a show stopper by any means.

Perhaps Yahoo! Pipes with some scraping is the way to go.

Please let us know if you've been able to make progress.