⭐ Yelp Reviews Scraper | $3/1K | Real-Time, No Login

Scrape Yelp business reviews in real-time. Get reviewer name, location, rating, review text, date, photo counts, and helpful-funny-cool reactions. No login, no API key.

✨ Key Features

• 🔄 Real-time scraping — always fresh reviews
• ⭐ Rating, date, full review text
• 👤 Reviewer name, location, friends and review count
• 📷 Number of photos in each review
• 👍 Useful / Funny / Cool reaction counts
• 🧲 Auto-deduplication across pages
• 🔒 No login, no API key

Input

{
  "businessUrls": [
    "https://www.yelp.com/biz/tartine-bakery-san-francisco"
  ],
  "maxPages": 3,
  "sortBy": "date_desc"
}

How to get a Yelp business URL

1. Open Yelp and find the business
2. Click the business card to open the page
3. Copy the URL — it looks like https://www.yelp.com/biz/tartine-bakery-san-francisco

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Description
businessUrls	string[]	✅	Yelp business page URLs
maxPages	int	❌	Pages per business, 1-5 (default: 3, ~10 reviews per page)
sortBy	string	❌	date_desc / date_asc / rating_desc / rating_asc / elites_desc (default: date_desc)
extractReviewer	bool	❌	Reviewer name (default: true)
extractReviewerLocation	bool	❌	Reviewer location (default: true)
extractReviewerStats	bool	❌	Friends + total reviews count (default: true)
extractRating	bool	❌	1-5 star rating (default: true)
extractDate	bool	❌	Review date (default: true)
extractText	bool	❌	Full review text (default: true)
extractPhotosCount	bool	❌	Number of photos attached (default: true)
extractReactions	bool	❌	Useful/Funny/Cool counts (default: true)
extractBusinessName	bool	❌	Include business slug on each row (default: true)
maxConcurrency	int	❌	Parallel page scrapes (default: 2)
timeout	int	❌	Timeout per page in seconds (default: 180)

Output

One dataset row per review:

{
  "success": true,
  "businessUrl": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/tartine-bakery-san-francisco",
  "businessSlug": "tartine-bakery-san-francisco",
  "reviewerName": "Jasmine C.",
  "reviewerLocation": "San Francisco, CA",
  "reviewerFriends": "25",
  "reviewerReviewsCount": "127",
  "rating": 5,
  "reviewDate": "05/09/2026",
  "text": "I've been coming to Tartine for years and it never disappoints...",
  "photosCount": "2",
  "usefulCount": "5",
  "funnyCount": "1",
  "coolCount": "3"
}

Use Cases

• Monitor your restaurant / shop reputation on Yelp
• Analyze competitor reviews and ratings
• Build datasets for sentiment analysis
• Track customer complaints in real time
• Gather testimonials for marketing
• Local SEO audits

Pricing

• $0.003 per review ($3 per 1,000 reviews)
• You pay only for unique reviews actually extracted
• Duplicates across pages are deduplicated and charged once

How it works

The actor fetches the Yelp business page for each URL with the chosen sort order, paginating through start=10, start=20, etc. Thunderbit's rendering engine pulls ~10 reviews per page. Duplicates (same reviewer + text) are filtered before pushing to the dataset.

Important Notes (read before running)

• Yelp limits anonymous access. Expect roughly 20-30 recent reviews per business in practice. Not 100+ like on Trustpilot.
• Deeper pagination often returns empty. maxPages: 3 is the sweet spot. Requesting 5 pages won't double the results.
• Small or new businesses may return only 3-5 reviews total.
• Reviews returned come directly from Yelp's public pages. No private / hidden reviews.
• For maximum coverage combine two runs with different sortBy values (e.g. date_desc + elites_desc) and dedupe in your pipeline.

Tips

• Use sortBy: date_desc to capture the latest customer feedback (most useful for monitoring).
• Use sortBy: rating_desc + rating_asc in separate runs to capture the most positive and most negative opinions.
• Keep maxConcurrency: 2 — Yelp is sensitive to concurrent requests.
• If you're looking for a high-volume review source with hundreds of reviews per company, consider our Trustpilot Reviews Scraper instead.