PeerSpot Scraper

Scrape PeerSpot — the largest B2B technology review platform — for crowdsourced category rankings, single-product review summaries, and head-to-head product comparisons. No login, no API key, no cookies required.

What this actor does

• Browse a category — get the full crowdsourced ranking for any of PeerSpot's 700+ software categories (CRM, ERP, Endpoint Protection, Firewalls, Cloud Security, Business Intelligence, and hundreds more), each with rating, review count, and engagement stats.
• Fetch a single product — pull a product's rating, review count, vendor, category ranking, recommend-percentage, and AI-summarized pros/cons.
• Compare two products — fetch both products' review summaries side by side, plus the rating gap and (when available) a link to PeerSpot's own comparison page.
• Sort ranked lists by PeerSpot's crowdsourced rank, by rating, or by review count.
• Empty fields are always omitted — every record only contains data PeerSpot actually published.

Output fields

Category browse mode (mode=byCategory)

Field	Description
rank	Position in PeerSpot's crowdsourced ranking (or re-ordered per sortBy)
productName, productSlug, productUrl	Product identity
rating	Average rating (0–10 scale used on category pages)
reviewCount	Number of verified reviews
wordsPerReview	Average review length
views	Page view count
categoryComparisons	Number of times this product appears in comparison searches
description	Short AI-generated summary of typical use cases
logoUrl	Vendor logo
category, categorySlug	The category being browsed

Single-product mode (mode=byProduct)

Field	Description
productName, productSlug, productUrl	Product identity
vendor	Publisher / vendor name
description	Product summary
rating, reviewCount, ratingScale	e.g. 4.2 reviews on a 1-5 scale
primaryCategory, primaryCategorySlug	Main PeerSpot category
recommendPercent	% of reviewers willing to recommend (sentiment-derived)
rankingSummary	Free-text ranking sentence (e.g. "X is first in Y, Z...") — only present when the product currently holds a top rank
pros	AI-summarized "Valuable Features"
cons	AI-summarized "Room for Improvement"
roiSummary	AI-summarized return-on-investment takeaways from reviewer feedback
pricingSummary	AI-summarized pricing/cost takeaways, including real price-range quotes when reviewers mention them
useCasesSummary	AI-summarized "Popular Use Cases"
serviceSupportSummary	AI-summarized vendor service & support quality feedback
mindsharePercent, mindshareCategory	PeerSpot's crowdsourced "mindshare" (relative engagement share) within its primary category, and the category it's measured against
companySizeBreakdown	Reviewer count broken down by company size (Small Business / Midsize Enterprise / Large Enterprise)
logoUrl	Vendor logo

roiSummary, pricingSummary, useCasesSummary, serviceSupportSummary, mindsharePercent/mindshareCategory, and companySizeBreakdown are only present when PeerSpot has published enough reviews to generate that section — low-review products may omit some of these.

Comparison mode (mode=compare)

Field	Description
productA, productB	Full single-product records (see above) for each side
ratingDifference	productA.rating - productB.rating, when both have a rating
moreReviewedProduct	Name of whichever product has more reviews
comparisonUrl	PeerSpot's own /products/comparisons/a_vs_b page, when it exists
comparisonSummary	PeerSpot's own AI-generated "Comparison Buyer's Guide" — features, room for improvement, deployment/support, and pricing/ROI compared side by side. Only present when PeerSpot has published a comparison page for this exact pair

All records include recordType and scrapedAt.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	byCategory	byCategory / byProduct / compare
categorySlug	select	crm	PeerSpot category (mode=byCategory) — 700+ curated options
sortBy	select	rank	rank / rating / reviews (mode=byCategory)
productSlug	string	microsoft-dynamics-crm	Product slug or full URL (mode=byProduct)
productSlugA	string	microsoft-dynamics-crm	First product (mode=compare)
productSlugB	string	salesforce-sales-cloud	Second product (mode=compare)
maxItems	int	50	Hard cap on emitted records (1–500, mode=byCategory)
minRating	number	—	Only return products rated at or above this value, 0–10 scale (mode=byCategory). Products with no published rating are excluded when set
minReviews	int	—	Only return products with at least this many reviews (mode=byCategory). Products with no published review count are excluded when set
proxyConfiguration	proxy	AUTO	Only engaged automatically on 403/429; not required for normal use

Example: browse the CRM category sorted by rating

{
  "mode": "byCategory",
  "categorySlug": "crm",
  "sortBy": "rating",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: browse top-rated, well-reviewed CRM products only

{
  "mode": "byCategory",
  "categorySlug": "crm",
  "sortBy": "rating",
  "minRating": 8,
  "minReviews": 20,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: fetch a single product

{
  "mode": "byProduct",
  "productSlug": "microsoft-dynamics-crm"
}

Example: compare two products

{
  "mode": "compare",
  "productSlugA": "microsoft-dynamics-crm",
  "productSlugB": "salesforce-sales-cloud"
}

Use cases

• Vendor research — pull the top-ranked products in any software category before a buying decision.
• Competitive intelligence — track how your product's rating, review count, and rank move over time.
• Sales enablement — generate battlecards from head-to-head product comparisons.
• Market mapping — enumerate every vendor across a technology category (endpoint security, cloud storage, BI tools, etc.).
• Content research — source real user pros/cons for buyer's-guide articles.

FAQ

Do I need to log in or provide an API key? No. All three modes work against PeerSpot's public pages.

How many categories are supported? 700+, extracted directly from PeerSpot's own category index and kept as a dropdown so you never have to guess a slug.

How many products does a category return? Whatever PeerSpot's ranked list contains — anywhere from a handful to 60+ depending on category size. The actor returns the full ranked list up to maxItems.

Why do some ranked products have no rating field? PeerSpot omits the rating stat for products with too few reviews to compute one; the actor never fabricates a value, so the field is simply absent.

What does rankingSummary mean? PeerSpot displays a badge sentence (e.g. "X is first in Category Y") only for products that currently hold a top rank in at least one category. Most products won't have this field.

Is a comparison page always available? No — PeerSpot only publishes comparison pages for product pairs users have actually searched for. When one doesn't exist, comparisonUrl is simply omitted; the two products' individual data is still returned in full.

How fresh is the data? PeerSpot recomputes rankings and stats monthly from ongoing user reviews; ratings and review counts reflect the live page at scrape time.

Does this include pricing data? PeerSpot doesn't publish a structured price list, but most well-reviewed products have a pricingSummary — an AI-generated summary of what reviewers say about cost and pricing model, including real quoted price ranges when reviewers mention them.

What is mindsharePercent? PeerSpot's own crowdsourced measure of how much reviewer/visitor engagement a product captures relative to its competitors in the same category, expressed as a percentage. Only published for products with enough category-level engagement data.

Can I filter out low-rated or barely-reviewed products? Yes — use minRating and/or minReviews on mode=byCategory. Both are applied after PeerSpot's own ranking is fetched, so rank still reflects the product's true position even when the list is filtered.