| name | easy-co-il-lookup |
| description | Look up an Israeli business on easy.co.il (the Israeli business directory, דפי עסקים) for opening hours, phone and address. Often carries the merchant's own Hebrew hours text with Shabbat-relative wording intact, which Google strips. Requires a real browser — the site is behind a Cloudflare JavaScript challenge. Use when Google has no entry, the entry looks stale, or you need the original Hebrew phrasing. |
easy.co.il lookup
easy.co.il is a long-running Israeli business directory. Its value here is
that listings frequently carry the merchant's own Hebrew hours text, with
the Shabbat-relative phrasing preserved — e.g. ו' 08:00 עד כניסת השבת,
מוצ"ש שעה לאחר צאת השבת. Google normalises that away into clock times, losing
the rule. Recovering the rule is the whole point of this plugin, so easy.co.il
is worth the extra effort even though it is harder to fetch.
This site cannot be scraped with requests
Verified 2026-07-30: easy.co.il sits behind a Cloudflare JavaScript
challenge. Plain HTTP clients get HTTP 403 with a Just a moment...
interstitial containing __cf_chl / challenge-platform markers. robots.txt
itself 302-redirects. Curl, requests, and header-spoofing all fail — the
challenge requires JS execution and cookies.
There is deliberately no script in this skill. Use a browser.
How to fetch
In preference order:
- A Playwright / headless-browser MCP server, if one is configured —
browser_navigate then browser_snapshot. Unattended and does not disturb
the user's own browser. Best option when available.
- A geo-egress MCP tool (
fetch_markdown or similar) — try it; some
clear the challenge where a plain HTTP client does not. Cheaper than driving
a browser when it works.
claude-in-chrome (navigate + get_page_text) — drives the user's own
visible Chrome with a real profile, so it clears the challenge reliably. It
takes over the user's browser window, so prefer routes 1–2 for unattended
work and say what you are doing before using it.
Do not fall back to curl; it will only ever return the challenge page.
Navigating the site
- Search:
https://www.easy.co.il/search/results?q=<business>&location=<city>
(URL-encode the Hebrew).
- Results link to per-business pages; open the best match.
- The hours block is labelled שעות פתיחה. Capture it verbatim in Hebrew
before translating — the exact wording is what you model.
What to extract
| Field | Hebrew label |
|---|
| Opening hours | שעות פתיחה |
| Address | כתובת |
| Phone | טלפון |
| Category | תחום / קטגוריה |
Phrasings you are looking for
These are the ones Google cannot express. Hand them to hours-rules-authoring:
| Hebrew | Meaning |
|---|
| כניסת השבת | candle lighting |
| צאת השבת / מוצ"ש | havdalah / Saturday night |
| ערב שבת / יום ו' | Friday, erev shabbat |
| ערב חג | erev yom tov |
| חול המועד | chol hamoed |
| עד שעה לפני כניסת השבת | until 1h before candle lighting |
| שעה לאחר צאת השבת | 1h after havdalah |
| סגור בשבת | closed on Shabbat |
| פתוח בשבת | open on Shabbat |
Reliability
easy.co.il listings are merchant-submitted and often years out of date —
more so than Google, which at least gets crowd corrections and "updated by
owner" signals. Its advantage is the phrasing, not the currency. Use it to
learn the rule; use Google to sanity-check the clock times; tell the user when
the two disagree rather than silently picking one.
