Software Advice Scraper

Scrape Software Advice (Gartner) for software reviews, ratings, and product listings. Software Advice shares the same trusted review database as Capterra — giving you access to millions of verified software reviews.

Perfect for SaaS competitive analysis, market research, and lead generation.

✨ Features

• ⚡ 26 data fields per review — the most comprehensive Software Advice scraper on Apify
• 📊 5 ratings per review — overall, ease-of-use, customer support, value for money, functionality
• 💬 Pros & Cons — full-text pros and cons for every review
• 🏢 Reviewer details — industry, company size, verified status, frequency of use
• 🏷️ Category scraping — discover software products by category with ratings
• 📄 Automatic pagination — follows pages until maxItems reached
• 🔄 Same data as Capterra — Gartner's shared review database

🚀 Usage

Reviews Mode

Extract detailed user reviews for a specific software product:

Input:

{
    "mode": "reviews",
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/notion-profile/reviews/" }
    ],
    "maxItems": 100
}

Output (per review):

{
    "productName": "Notion",
    "category": "BusinessApplication",
    "overallProductRating": 4.7,
    "totalReviews": 2699,
    "title": "The best tool to organize your knowledge base",
    "prosText": "The great flexibility in organizing the contents and move things around...",
    "consText": "Storing large documents is not ideal because you don't see previews...",
    "generalComments": "I've put all my business knowledge base there...",
    "rating": 5,
    "easeOfUseRating": 5,
    "customerSupportRating": 5,
    "valueForMoneyRating": 5,
    "functionalityRating": 5,
    "reviewerName": "Anonymous",
    "reviewerIndustry": "Information Technology and Services",
    "companySize": "Self-Employed",
    "isVerified": true,
    "frequencyOfUse": "Daily",
    "timeUsed": "1-2 years",
    "reasonsForChoosing": null,
    "reasonsForSwitching": null,
    "reviewerIncentive": "NominalGift",
    "vendorReply": null,
    "reviewDate": "2019-12-04T14:59:10Z",
    "reviewId": "Capterra___1879819",
    "url": "https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/notion-profile/reviews/"
}

Category Mode

Discover software products in a category:

Input:

{
    "mode": "category",
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.softwareadvice.com/crm/" }
    ],
    "maxItems": 50
}

Output (per product):

{
    "productName": "Zoho CRM",
    "overallRating": 4.3,
    "reviewCount": 6960,
    "description": "Zoho CRM is a cloud-based CRM...",
    "productUrl": "https://www.softwareadvice.com/crm/zoho-crm-profile/",
    "reviewsUrl": "https://www.softwareadvice.com/crm/zoho-crm-profile/reviews/",
    "hasFreeTrial": true,
    "hasFreeVersion": true
}

📋 Output Fields (Reviews Mode)

Field	Description	Example
productName	Software name	"Notion"
category	Application category	"BusinessApplication"
overallProductRating	Product average (1-5)	4.7
totalReviews	Total review count	2699
title	Review headline	"Best tool for knowledge base"
prosText	What the user liked	Full text
consText	What the user disliked	Full text
generalComments	Additional comments	Full text
rating	Overall star rating (1-5)	5
easeOfUseRating	Ease of use (1-5)	5
customerSupportRating	Support quality (1-5)	4
valueForMoneyRating	Value for money (1-5)	5
functionalityRating	Functionality (1-5)	5
reviewerName	Reviewer's name	"John D."
reviewerIndustry	Reviewer's industry	"E-Learning"
companySize	Company size	"11-50 employees"
isVerified	Validated review	true
frequencyOfUse	How often used	"Daily"
timeUsed	Duration of use	"More than 2 years"
reasonsForChoosing	Why they chose this software	Text or null
reasonsForSwitching	Why they switched from another	Text or null
reviewerIncentive	Incentive for reviewing	"NominalGift" or null
vendorReply	Vendor's response to review	Text or null
reviewDate	ISO 8601 review date	"2026-03-01T18:14:14Z"
reviewId	Unique review identifier	"Capterra___7104865"
url	Source page URL	Full URL

Note: Fields return null when data is not available — never empty strings.

📂 Finding Software URLs

Browse categories at https://www.softwareadvice.com/{category}/:

• /crm/ — CRM Software
• /project-management/ — Project Management
• /hr/ — HR Software
• /accounting/ — Accounting Software
• /marketing-automation/ — Marketing Automation
• /help-desk/ — Help Desk Software
• /email-marketing/ — Email Marketing

💰 Cost Estimation

Reviews mode extracts 25 reviews per page. The scraper is extremely fast (~14 seconds per 100 reviews).

Reviews	Pages	Estimated Cost
100	4	~$0.01
500	20	~$0.04
2,500	100	~$0.15