Local.com Real-Time Data

Live review intelligence from Local.com — expert product reviews, category top picks with scores, and in-depth buying guides, delivered as structured JSON the second each record is collected.

Free trial: free Apify plans get 2 results per run. Upgrade to a paid plan for unlimited exports.

Who this is for

• Affiliate marketers & publishers tracking which products top each Local.com category
• Competitor researchers watching rival rankings, scores, and review coverage
• Agencies & brands monitoring their own products' review presence and summaries
• Content teams finding content gaps across software, finance, health, and lifestyle topics
• AI-agent builders feeding fresh, structured review data into chatbots and copilots

Use cases: affiliate shortlist building, leaderboard tracking over time, review-coverage audits, buying-guide research, pros/cons harvesting, content-gap analysis.

Features

Feature	What you get
🔍 Category Search (default on)	Keyword search across expert reviews and buying guides. Fast cards: title, page type, category, excerpt. Optional Enrich with full review details merges the full summary, section outline, dates, and image into the same row (detailsFetched: true).
🏆 Category Details	Top-pick leaderboard per category URL: product name, tagline, score out of 10, score label, vendor link, image.
⭐ Reviews	Full in-depth expert review per review URL: summary, section outline, publish/update dates, image, content snippet.
🔗 Scrape By URL	Any Local.com category, review, guide, or search URL — page type auto-detected.

Every discovered item is always saved — enriching never drops rows and never creates duplicates.

Input reference

Field	Type	Default	Notes
country	select	US	Market region (US, CA, UK, AU).
enableCategorySearch	checkbox	true	Primary discovery feature.
searchKeywords	string list	["payroll software", "seo tools", "antivirus"]	Required when search is on.
searchMaxResults	number	10	Max results per keyword (1–100).
searchFetchFullDetails	checkbox	false	Enrich each search row in place. Adds a little extra time per record.
enableCategoryDetails	checkbox	false	Requires categoryUrls.
categoryUrls	string list	[]	e.g. https://www.local.com/payroll-software.
enableReviews	checkbox	false	Requires reviewUrls.
reviewUrls	string list	[]	e.g. https://www.local.com/payroll-software/reviews/gusto.
enableScrapeByUrl	checkbox	false	Requires scrapeUrls (Local.com URLs only).
scrapeUrls	string list	[]	Any Local.com page.
webhookUrl / webhookFormat	text / select	"" / json	Extra real-time push per record; json or slack.
proxyConfiguration	proxy	Residential US	Residential recommended at scale.

Empty input still runs a useful demo: Category Search over three sample keywords, 10 results each.

Output reference

One dataset row per item (featureType: category_search, category_details, review, scrape_by_url).

• Search rows: keyword, title, page_url, page_type (review/guide), category, product_name, excerpt, image_url, sections, published_at, updated_at, position, detailsFetched.
• Category rows: category, product_name, tagline, score (0–10), score_label, vendor_url, image_url, position.
• Review rows: category, product_name, title, excerpt, sections, published_at, updated_at, image_url, content_snippet.
• URL rows: pageType, title, product_name, data (structured payload).

OUTPUT views: allResults, overview, search, details, reviews, scrape_by_url.

Webhooks

Set webhookUrl to POST every record in real time as JSON (webhookFormat: json), or as a Slack-friendly message (slack). Best-effort delivery — a failed webhook never stops the run or the dataset write.

MCP / AI-agent usage

Pair with the Apify MCP server: your agent can start runs and query the dataset with natural language.

Example prompt for your agent:

“Using the Local.com Real-Time Data actor, search Local.com for 'payroll software', enrich the top results, and tell me which products are reviewed and what each review covers.”

FAQ

• Which connection should I use? Residential US works best. The default is already set — just click Start.
• How fresh is the data? Every run collects live data at runtime; each row carries a scrapedAt timestamp.
• What does the free trial include? 2 results per run on free Apify plans. Paid plans are uncapped.
• Does enriching filter anything out? No. Every discovered result is saved; enrichment only adds fields to the same row.
• Do webhooks replace the dataset? No — the dataset is always written. Webhooks are an additional real-time copy.