# Petco Product Reviews Scraper (`captivated_mix/petco-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Every Petco review, no CAPTCHA, no scrolling: just a product URL and a dataset.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/captivated\_mix/petco-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Dee Bugger](https://apify.com/captivated_mix) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, AI, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Petco Product Reviews Scraper

Extract every customer review for any Petco.com product — star rating,
review text, reviewer name, date, verified-purchase status, helpful votes,
and photos — just by pasting the product URL.

### Why use this Actor

- **Fast and reliable.** Reviews are pulled straight from Petco's review
  data provider, not scraped off rendered HTML — so there's nothing
  fragile parsing the page layout.
- **Complete pagination.** Every review is fetched automatically, however
  many pages that takes — no manual "load more" clicking.
- **Clean, structured output.** One row per review, ready to export to
  CSV/Excel, load into a spreadsheet, or feed into your own analytics or
  sentiment-analysis pipeline.

### Use cases

- **Brand & competitor monitoring** — track what customers say about your
  pet food/product line vs. competitors on Petco.
- **Product research** — pull all reviews for a product before launch
  decisions, reformulations, or marketing claims.
- **Customer sentiment analysis** — feed review text into an LLM or NLP
  pipeline to surface recurring complaints or praise.
- **Review monitoring over time** — schedule this Actor to run periodically
  and track rating trends or new negative reviews as they appear.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `productUrls` | array of strings | One or more Petco product page URLs, e.g. `https://www.petco.com/product/...` |
| `maxReviews` | integer | Max reviews to collect per product (default 200). Set high to fetch everything a product has. |
| `scrapeDoToken` | string (secret) | A [scrape.do](https://scrape.do) API token, required to resolve a Petco product URL. Free tier available. |

Example input:

```json
{
    "productUrls": ["https://www.petco.com/product/purina-pro-plan-savor-shredded-blend-beef-and-rice-formula-adult-dry-dog-food-47-lbs-2986213"],
    "maxReviews": 500,
    "scrapeDoToken": "your-token-here"
}
```

### Output

One dataset item per review:

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `productUrl` | The input product URL |
| `productId` | Petco/Bazaarvoice's internal product id |
| `productName` | Product title |
| `reviewId` | Internal review id |
| `username` | Reviewer's displayed name |
| `title` | Review title |
| `text` | Review body |
| `rating` | Star rating, 1–5 |
| `submittedAt` | Review submission date |
| `helpfulVotes` | Number of "helpful" votes the review received |
| `verifiedPurchase` | `true` if marked a verified purchase |
| `photoUrls` | List of any photo URLs attached to the review |

Download results as JSON, CSV, or Excel directly from the Apify Console, or
pull them via the Apify API into your own systems.

### Setup note

This Actor needs your own free [scrape.do](https://scrape.do) API token to
resolve a Petco product URL (Petco's pages sit behind bot protection).
Sign up, copy your token, and paste it into the `scrapeDoToken` input field.

### Pricing

Pay only for what you use — priced per 1,000 reviews extracted. No
subscription required.

# Actor input Schema

## `productUrls` (type: `array`):

One or more Petco product page URLs to scrape reviews from.

## `maxReviews` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of reviews to collect per product URL. Leave empty to fetch all available reviews.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Order to request reviews in.

## `scrapeDoToken` (type: `string`):

Required to resolve a Petco product URL into its Bazaarvoice product id (Petco's HTML pages are DataDome-protected). Get a token at scrape.do.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "productUrls": [
    "https://www.petco.com/product/purina-pro-plan-savor-shredded-blend-beef-and-rice-formula-adult-dry-dog-food-47-lbs-2986213"
  ],
  "maxReviews": 200,
  "sortBy": "newest"
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "productUrls": [
        "https://www.petco.com/product/purina-pro-plan-savor-shredded-blend-beef-and-rice-formula-adult-dry-dog-food-47-lbs-2986213"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("captivated_mix/petco-reviews-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "productUrls": ["https://www.petco.com/product/purina-pro-plan-savor-shredded-blend-beef-and-rice-formula-adult-dry-dog-food-47-lbs-2986213"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("captivated_mix/petco-reviews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "productUrls": [
    "https://www.petco.com/product/purina-pro-plan-savor-shredded-blend-beef-and-rice-formula-adult-dry-dog-food-47-lbs-2986213"
  ]
}' |
apify call captivated_mix/petco-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=captivated_mix/petco-reviews-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/FMhhobyYSOiGhkDnd/builds/K2zX0g4vCl31SMlxA/openapi.json