Yandex Maps Reviews Scraper

Extract Yandex Maps reviews with English translation and sentiment analysis. $25 per 1,000 reviews.

Yandex Maps is the dominant mapping platform across Russia and CIS — the equivalent of Google Maps for over 100 million users. Every business listing accumulates reviews that directly influence purchasing decisions. There is no official Yandex API for review data. This scraper is the only maintained solution that delivers translated, sentiment-scored review data ready for analysis.

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What you get

For every review scraped, you receive:

• Original Russian text — complete, untruncated review content
• English translation — automatic RU→EN translation, already-English text is detected and skipped
• Sentiment analysis — positive / neutral / negative label, a continuous score from -1.0 to 1.0, and the specific keywords that drove the classification
• Star rating — 1–5 stars per review
• Review date — parsed to ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD)
• Reviewer profile — name and link to their Yandex profile
• Photos — count and direct URLs of all photos attached to the review
• Business reply — owner response text when present
• Reaction counts — helpful, unhelpful, and funny counts per review
• Business metadata — name, address, phone, website, working hours, overall rating, and total review count

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Key features

Automatic RU→EN translation

Every review is translated from Russian to English using the Google Translate API with LRU caching for efficiency. Your team works directly with the English output — no manual translation step required.

Sentiment scoring

Each review receives a sentiment label (positive / neutral / negative), a continuous score from -1.0 to 1.0, and a list of the keywords that influenced the score. The score combines the star rating (primary signal) with a bilingual keyword scan of the review text.

Search-based discovery

Provide search queries instead of URLs — for example "coffee shop Almaty center" — and the scraper finds matching businesses and collects their reviews automatically. Useful for competitor research and market mapping without knowing exact listing URLs in advance.

Date and rating filters

Filter reviews by date range (dateFrom / dateTo) and minimum star rating (minRating). Run scheduled incremental scrapes to capture only new reviews since your last run. Billing applies only to reviews that pass all filters.

Sort order

Request reviews sorted by newest first (by_time), lowest rating first (by_rating_asc), or highest rating first (by_rating_desc).

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Why Yandex data is valuable

Yandex controls the dominant share of search and maps traffic across Russia and CIS markets. A business's Yandex Maps rating directly influences local visibility and foot traffic — in the same way Google Maps reviews drive decisions in Western markets. Yet the entire review corpus is in Russian, making it operationally inaccessible to most English-speaking teams without translation infrastructure.

This scraper delivers that data in English, structured, and sentiment-scored — ready to drop into your analytics pipeline, BI tool, or spreadsheet.

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Use cases

Market research and competitive analysis Pull reviews for any set of businesses in a city or category. Compare sentiment scores, identify recurring complaints, and benchmark ratings across competitors — without reading Russian.

Reputation monitoring Track your own listings across multiple locations without logging into Yandex Business per branch. Set up scheduled runs with dateFrom filtering to capture only reviews posted since the last run.

NLP dataset creation Yandex Maps reviews are Russian-language ground truth: star ratings provide reliable sentiment labels. Export textOriginal + rating + sentimentScore to build or validate Russian-language NLP models.

Lead generation and B2B prospecting Use businessPhone, businessWebsite, businessAddress, and category context to build targeted lists of businesses by region and vertical.

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Input options

Parameter	Type	Description
businessUrls	array	Direct Yandex Maps listing URLs to scrape
searchQueries	array	Search terms — scraper finds matching businesses automatically
maxReviewsPerBusiness	number	Maximum reviews to collect per business (default: 100)
translateToEnglish	boolean	Enable RU→EN translation (default: true)
analyzeSentiment	boolean	Enable sentiment scoring (default: true)
sortBy	string	by_time · by_rating_asc · by_rating_desc
minRating	number	Minimum star rating to include (1–5, default: 0 = all)
dateFrom	string	Include reviews on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD)
dateTo	string	Include reviews on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD)

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Output schema

Field	Type	Description
reviewId	string	Unique review identifier
businessName	string	Business display name
businessUrl	string	Scraped Yandex Maps URL
businessAddress	string	Full formatted address
businessPhone	string	Business phone number
businessWebsite	string	Business website URL
businessHoursRaw	string	Working hours text
businessRatingOverall	number	Overall average rating (e.g. 4.7)
businessTotalReviews	number	Total review count for the business
rating	number	Review star rating (1–5)
textOriginal	string	Original Russian review text
textEnglish	string	English translation
reviewDate	string	ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD)
sentiment	string	positive, neutral, or negative
sentimentScore	number	Score from -1.0 (most negative) to 1.0 (most positive)
sentimentKeywords	array	Keywords that drove the score (negative ones prefixed with -)
reviewerName	string	Reviewer display name
reviewerUrl	string	Link to reviewer's Yandex profile
hasPhotos	boolean	Whether the review includes photos
reviewPhotosCount	number	Number of photos attached
photoUrls	array	Direct URLs of review photos
reactionCounts	object	{helpful: N, unhelpful: N, funny: N}
businessReply	string	Business owner response text
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of when the review was scraped

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Quick start examples

Scrape a business by URL

{
  "businessUrls": [
    "https://yandex.ru/maps/org/your_business/1234567890/reviews/"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerBusiness": 100,
  "translateToEnglish": true,
  "analyzeSentiment": true,
  "sortBy": "by_time"
}

Find businesses by search query

{
  "searchQueries": [
    "coffee shop Almaty center",
    "sushi restaurant Baku"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerBusiness": 50,
  "translateToEnglish": true,
  "analyzeSentiment": true
}

Incremental update — last 30 days only

{
  "businessUrls": [
    "https://yandex.ru/maps/org/your_business/1234567890/reviews/"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerBusiness": 500,
  "translateToEnglish": true,
  "analyzeSentiment": true,
  "sortBy": "by_time",
  "dateFrom": "2026-04-15",
  "dateTo": "2026-05-15"
}

Negative reviews only

{
  "businessUrls": [
    "https://yandex.ru/maps/org/your_business/1234567890/reviews/"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerBusiness": 200,
  "translateToEnglish": true,
  "analyzeSentiment": true,
  "sortBy": "by_rating_asc",
  "minRating": 0
}

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Pricing

$25 per 1,000 reviews — pay only for reviews that pass your filters. No monthly minimums, no setup fees.

Volume	Cost
100 reviews	$2.50
1,000 reviews	$25.00
10,000 reviews	$250.00
100,000 reviews	$2,500.00

Filtered-out reviews (by date or rating) are not charged.

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Competitor comparison

Feature	This scraper	zen-studio actor	DIY / open-source
RU→EN translation	Yes	No	No
Sentiment score + keywords	Yes	No	No
Date filtering	Yes	No	No
Rating filter	Yes	No	No
Sort order control	Yes	No	No
Search-based discovery	Yes	No	No
Business phone / website / hours	Yes	Partial	No
Business overall rating + review count	Yes	Partial	No
Reaction counts	Yes	No	No
No infrastructure required	Yes	Yes	No
Actively maintained	Yes	Intermittent	No

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Notes

• Yandex Maps displays up to approximately 600 reviews per listing regardless of scraping method — this is a platform constraint, not a scraper limitation.
• Translation and sentiment analysis can be disabled independently to reduce cost or processing time.
• Scheduled runs with dateFrom filtering are the recommended approach for ongoing monitoring workflows.