Yandex Maps Reviews Scraper API

Paste a Yandex Maps organisation link and the reviews come back as rows: star rating, the full text, who wrote it and their Yandex level, the date, likes, photos, and the owner's reply where there is one. The place itself rides on every row too, so name, address, category, overall rating and total review count are already there.

The ceiling first. Yandex serves the first 600 reviews of an organisation and no more. That is Yandex's own limit, not a setting here, so a place with 4,000 reviews gives you 600. They arrive in Yandex's own relevance order, which puts newer and longer reviews first, and Yandex ignores any attempt to reorder them, so the five filters below run here rather than being sent to Yandex.

Input	Yandex Maps organisation links, ids, or search terms plus a city
Output	One row per review, with the place's name, address, category and rating on every row
Ceiling	600 reviews per organisation, Yandex's own limit
Account needed	None, and no Yandex API key
Price	$0.30 per 1,000 reviews, flat on every plan. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 16,000

🔍 What Yandex Maps Reviews Scraper does

There are two ways to name the places. Paste links, which can be the organisation page (https://yandex.ru/maps/org/niki_dent/55558183898/), its reviews tab, the bare numeric id 55558183898, or a Yandex Maps search link, which is expanded into the organisations it lists. Or skip links and search: put a name or a category into Search terms, add a City, and each term contributes a few organisations whose reviews are then read.

The filters run on the reviews after they arrive, because Yandex ignores filter parameters on this page. Anything a filter removes is dropped before it reaches your dataset and is not billed, so setting Maximum star rating to 2 to pull complaints only costs you the complaints, not the praise you threw away.

📋 What data you get from each Yandex Maps review

What you get	Field
Yandex's own stable id for the review	reviewId
Stars, the text verbatim, its language, and whether there is any text	rating, text, textLanguage, hasText
When it was published or last edited	publishedAt, publishedAtTimestamp
Who wrote it, their Yandex level, avatar and profile	authorName, authorId, authorLevel, authorAvatarUrl, authorProfileUrl
How other users voted on it	likes, dislikes
The owner's reply and when it went up	businessReplyText, businessReplyAt, hasBusinessReply
Photos and videos attached	photoUrls, photoCount, videoCount
Whether Yandex pinned it, and its place in the list	isPinned, position
The place card, repeated on every row	organizationId, organizationName, organizationAddress, organizationCategory, organizationRating, organizationReviewCount, organizationUrl, organizationReviewsUrl

▶️ How to scrape Yandex Maps reviews

1. Open Yandex Maps Reviews Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Paste organisation links into Yandex Maps organisation URLs, one per line. Or leave that empty, open Find organisations by search, and type a term plus a city.
3. Set Maximum reviews per organisation. Start at 20 to see what the rows look like.
4. Open Filters if you only want a star range, written reviews, replied-to reviews, or reviews after a date.
5. Click Start, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape Yandex Maps reviews?

$0.30 per 1,000 reviews. Flat on every Apify plan, with no volume tiers. On the free plan, the $5 Apify gives you each month covers about 16,000 reviews.

One billed row per review delivered. The sample row is not billed, diagnostic rows are not billed, an organisation with no reviews produces no billed rows, and anything your filters remove is dropped before the dataset and never billed.

📥 What you give it

{
  "startUrls": ["https://yandex.ru/maps/org/niki_dent/55558183898/"],
  "maxReviewsPerOrganization": 100,
  "maxItems": 500,
  "maxRating": 3,
  "onlyWithText": true,
  "newerThan": "2026-01-01"
}

Field	Default	What it is
startUrls	none, the box starts at one example clinic	Organisation page links, reviews-tab links, bare numeric ids, or a Yandex Maps search link.
maxReviewsPerOrganization	100	Reviews per organisation, 1 to 600.
maxItems	500	Hard cap across every organisation in the run, up to 50,000. Use it as the budget stop.
searchQueries	none	Optional. Find organisations by name or category instead of pasting links, like стоматология or Osteria Mario.
city	none	City for those search terms. English, Russian or the local spelling all work: Moscow, Москва, Almaty, Istanbul. So does its geo id, the number in a Yandex Maps link of the city (213 is Moscow).
maxOrganizationsPerQuery	3	How many organisations each search term contributes, 1 to 50.
minRating, maxRating	none	Under Filters. Keep only reviews in a star range. Set maxRating to 2 or 3 for complaints only.
onlyWithText	off	Skip star-only ratings that carry no written review.
onlyWithBusinessReply	off	Keep only reviews the organisation replied to.
newerThan	none	An ISO date like 2026-01-01. Only reviews at or after it. Something that is not a date, like 2 weeks, is refused before anything is read.
language	automatic	Under Advanced. The language for the place name, address and category. Review text always stays in the language it was written in.
proxyConfiguration	leave it alone	Optional. Only if you want the run to go out through a particular network of your own.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a run on 3 October 2026, with the review and the reply cut short:

{
  "reviewId": "Do3qkCnDnsomk9XhYPTBpIvACtyWNTrH",
  "organizationId": "55558183898",
  "organizationName": "Стоматология на Никитской",
  "organizationAddress": "Москва, Малая Никитская улица, 33",
  "organizationCategory": "Стоматологическая клиника",
  "organizationRating": 5,
  "organizationReviewCount": 82,
  "organizationUrl": "https://yandex.com/maps/org/niki_dent/55558183898/",
  "organizationReviewsUrl": "https://yandex.com/maps/org/niki_dent/55558183898/reviews/",
  "rating": 5,
  "text": "Невероятная клиника, стоматология!! Супер! Врачи настоящие профессионалы!! Очень повезло!...",
  "textLanguage": "ru",
  "hasText": true,
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-14T11:42:41.208Z",
  "publishedAtTimestamp": 1778758961208,
  "authorName": "Сергей К.",
  "authorId": "4w09jt6vf7pee5dq7h36j8aczr",
  "authorLevel": "Знаток города 7 уровня",
  "authorAvatarUrl": "https://avatars.mds.yandex.net/get-yapic/47747/0h-2/islands-200",
  "authorProfileUrl": "https://yandex.com/maps/user/4w09jt6vf7pee5dq7h36j8aczr",
  "likes": 0,
  "dislikes": 0,
  "businessReplyText": "Благодарим вас за такой подробный и эмоциональный отзыв...",
  "businessReplyAt": "2026-05-15T17:39:02.331Z",
  "hasBusinessReply": true,
  "photoUrls": ["https://avatars.mds.yandex.net/get-altay/20218502/2a0000019e26c1d1820a..."],
  "photoCount": 1,
  "videoCount": 0,
  "isPinned": false,
  "position": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-03T00:33:25.243Z"
}

Field	How to read it
reviewId	Yandex's own stable id. The right key for deduping across runs.
text, hasText	The review verbatim, in whatever language it was written. hasText is false on star-only ratings.
publishedAt	Yandex's timestamp for the review. It moves when the reviewer edits, so an edited old review reads as recent.
authorLevel	Yandex's own badge text, like Знаток города 7 уровня.
businessReplyText, businessReplyAt	The owner's reply and when it was posted. When there is no reply, hasBusinessReply is false.
isPinned	Whether Yandex pinned this review to the top of the place's list.

🧾 Reading the output

Row	How to spot it	Billed
A review	It has a reviewId	yes
The sample row	_sample: true	no
A diagnostic	It carries an errorCode	no

There is no charged field on these rows. Filter on reviewId being present.

Code	What it means
NO_REVIEWS	That organisation has none.
BAD_URL	Not a Yandex Maps organisation link or a usable id. A bare id needs at least six digits.
CITY_NOT_FOUND	The city could not be placed: Yandex did not know it, matched only businesses with that name, or has no such geo id. Nothing was searched.
BAD_INPUT	newerThan is not a date. Nothing was read.
NO_ORGANIZATIONS	A search term matched no organisations in that city.
SEARCH_FAILED	That search could not be run.
NOT_FOUND	Yandex has no such organisation.
CAPTCHA	Yandex did not serve that page on this run. Worth another run.
NO_REVIEW_BLOCK, NO_STATE	The page loaded but the reviews were not in it.
FETCH_FAILED, HTTP_ERROR	Yandex was unreachable or answered badly.

If your filters remove every review for an organisation, you get zero rows for it and no diagnostic. That is a filter doing its job, not a failure.

💡 What people use it for

• Reputation monitoring for your own locations, on a schedule, with newerThan set to the last run and reviewId for deduping.
• Checking how responsive a business is, using hasBusinessReply and the gap between publishedAt and businessReplyAt.
• Surveying a category across a city, by searching стоматология in Moscow and reading every organisation's reviews in one run.
• Feeding review text into a translation or sentiment step of your own, with textLanguage already filled in.

From a category to its complaints, in three steps:

1. Run Yandex Maps Scraper on стоматология in Moscow and copy the url column.
2. Paste those links into startUrls here, with maxRating at 2 and onlyWithText on.
3. Group the rows by organizationName and read the complaint that keeps coming back.

🚧 What it does not do

• 600 reviews per organisation is the hard ceiling. Yandex stops serving past that point, so a place with thousands gives you the first 600 in its own order.
• You cannot reorder them. Yandex ignores sort parameters on this page, so newest-first is not available.
• No reviewer contact details. Name, level, avatar and profile link are what Yandex publishes.
• publishedAt follows Yandex's own timestamp, which moves when a review is edited. An edited old review can look recent and will pass newerThan.
• Nothing is translated. language changes the place name, address and category only.
• A city name has to be a place to Yandex. One it only matches to businesses is refused rather than searched somewhere else: Springfield came back as shops in Belgrade. A geo id always works.
• A big run can come back short without saying so. When a later page of an organisation's reviews does not load, that organisation simply returns fewer rows and no diagnostic row marks the gap. Only delivered reviews are billed.
• Rows are a snapshot. Ratings, reply text and review counts all move.
• It is not an official Yandex tool. Dami's Studio is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Yandex, or by any other company named on this page.

🧭 Which Yandex scraper do you need?

If you want	Use
Businesses on Yandex Maps, with phones, hours and coordinates	Yandex Maps Scraper
Reviews for a place on Yandex Maps	This one
Yandex search results by keyword and region	Yandex Search Engine Scraper
Products and prices on Yandex Market	Yandex Market Scraper
Reviews of a place on 2GIS	2GIS Reviews Scraper
Reviews of a place on Google Maps	Google Maps Reviews Scraper

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Yandex API key to scrape Yandex Maps reviews?

No. Nothing to apply for and no quota to watch.

Can I get more than 600 reviews for one place?

No. Yandex stops serving them past 600, whatever you set.

Can I get the newest reviews only?

Set newerThan to a date. You cannot ask Yandex to sort by date, so the run reads its relevance order and keeps what matches.

Which countries does this cover?

Wherever Yandex Maps has an organisation directory, which includes Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey and the wider CIS.

Can I call it from code or connect it to an AI assistant?

Yes. The API tab has ready-made code for Python, JavaScript and the command line. For Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client, connect https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/yandex-maps-reviews-scraper. Either way the run happens on your Apify account at the same price.

Is scraping Yandex Maps reviews legal?

These are public reviews. They carry personal data, which GDPR and similar laws cover, so have a reason for collecting it. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the organisation link or the search term and city you used, plus the run ID. The errorCode on the diagnostic row usually names the problem on its own.