# Yandex Maps Reviews Scraper (`devilscrapes/yandex-maps-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Yandex Maps reviews scraper API: give it organization ids or Yandex Maps org URLs and get every review as JSON: text, star rating, date, author, likes, photos and the owner's reply. No browser, no login. Built for reputation monitoring and review analytics.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/yandex-maps-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [DevilScrapes](https://apify.com/devilscrapes) (community)
- **Categories:** Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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## Yandex Maps Reviews Scraper

**💰 $3.20 / 1 000 results**  ·  pay only for results  ·  no credit card to try

*We do the dirty work so your dataset stays clean.* 😈

Yandex Maps reviews scraper API: give it organization ids or Yandex Maps org URLs and get every review as JSON: text, star rating, date, author, likes, photos and the owner's reply. No browser, no login. Built for reputation monitoring and review analytics.

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### 🎯 What this scrapes

Yandex Maps is where Russia and the CIS read and write reviews about restaurants, clinics, hotels and shops, and it has no public reviews API. This Actor turns an organization id or a Yandex Maps org URL into a clean table of reviews: text in the language written, 1-5 star rating, date, reviewer, likes, photos and the owner's reply. Paste one organization or a hundred; set how many reviews you want per organization; get rows back.

### 🔥 What we handle for you

- 🛡️ **We rotate browser fingerprints** (curl-cffi impersonation, Firefox and Safari profiles) so Yandex sees a real-browser handshake, not Python.
- 🌐 **We pin a Russian exit and rotate it** — an Apify Proxy session per organization, and a fresh exit when a connection is dropped or challenged.
- 🔁 **We resume where we stopped** — after a dropped connection or a block we back off, open a clean session and continue from the page we reached; reviews are never charged twice.
- 🧱 **We pace requests** at least three and a half seconds apart, in order, so a long run keeps its footing.
- 🧩 **One organization failing never kills the run** — the rest still deliver, and the status message names the one that failed.
- 🧊 **We keep the dataset clean** — Pydantic-validated rows, deduplicated by review id, ISO-8601 timestamps, JSON / CSV / Excel export from the Apify Console.
- 💰 **You pay only for reviews that land.** No rows, no per-review charge (just the small start fee).

### 💡 Use cases

- **Reputation monitoring** — track new reviews and star ratings for your venues or your competitors' venues in Russia and the CIS.
- **Review analytics** — export review text and ratings for sentiment, topic and trend analysis in Russian.
- **Owner-reply audits** — see which reviews the organization answered, what it said and when.
- **Market research** — compare ratings, review volume and reviewer levels across restaurants, clinics, hotels and shops.

### ⚙️ How to use it

1. Click **Try for free** at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click **Start**. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from **Storage → Dataset** as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

### 📥 Input

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Notes |
|---|---|:--:|---|---|
| `orgs` | `array` | **yes** | \['158767885594', '243088808182'] | Yandex Maps organizations to read reviews for. Each item is a numeric organization id (158767885594) or a Yandex Maps… |
| `maxReviews` | `integer` | no | 100 | Cap on reviews per organization. Yandex serves 50 reviews per page; paging stops when the cap or the last page is… |
| `proxyConfiguration` | `object` | no | {'useApifyProxy': True, 'apifyProxyGroups': \['RESIDENTIAL'], 'apifyProxyCountry': 'RU'} | Apify Proxy configuration. Defaults to a Russian residential exit; datacenter proxies also work but are blocked more… |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "orgs": [
    "158767885594"
  ],
  "maxReviews": 60,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "RU"
  }
}
```

### 📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `reviewId` | `string` | Yandex review id, the dedupe key within an organization. |
| `orgId` | `string` | Yandex Maps organization id. |
| `orgName` | `string` | Organization name as served. |
| `orgUrl` | `string` | Yandex Maps reviews page of the organization. |
| `orgRating` | `number` | Organization average rating (2 decimals). |
| `orgReviewCount` | `integer` | Organization total review count. |
| `authorName` | `string` | Reviewer display name. |
| `authorProfileId` | `string` | Reviewer public profile id. |
| `authorLevel` | `string` | Reviewer local-expert level, as served. |
| `rating` | `integer` | Star rating given, 1-5. |
| `text` | `string` | Review text in the language written. |
| `textLanguage` | `string` | Language code of the text. |
| `publishedAt` | `string` | Last update time of the review (UTC, ISO-8601). |
| `likes` | `integer` | Likes on the review. |
| `dislikes` | `integer` | Dislikes on the review. |
| `photoUrls` | `array` | Full-size photo URLs attached to the review. |
| `videoCount` | `integer` | Videos attached to the review. |
| `pinned` | `boolean` | Whether the owner pinned the review. |
| `ownerReply` | `string` | The organization's reply text, when there is one. |
| `ownerReplyAt` | `string` | Time of the owner reply (UTC, ISO-8601). |
| `page` | `integer` | 1-based review page the row came from. |
| `position` | `integer` | 1-based position among this organization's emitted reviews. |
| `scrapedAt` | `string` | ISO-8601 UTC scrape timestamp. |

#### Example output

```json
{
  "reviewId": "ttjZUJ1s3GI3D5t_3LjXoZELSHWEIUY",
  "orgId": "158767885594",
  "orgName": "Хачапури и вино",
  "orgUrl": "https://yandex.com/maps/org/158767885594/reviews/",
  "orgRating": 4.9,
  "orgReviewCount": 2204,
  "authorName": "Дария Б.",
  "authorProfileId": "9y87jjaercr8931a400dc6qrwc",
  "authorLevel": "Знаток города 5 уровня",
  "rating": 5,
  "text": "Просто отличное заведение! Красивый интерьер, быстрое и качественное обслуживание, удобное размещение, большой выбор блюд, самое вкусное вино!!",
  "textLanguage": "ru",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-26T07:27:58.420Z",
  "likes": 3,
  "dislikes": 0,
  "photoUrls": [
    "https://avatars.mds.yandex.net/get-altay/18713884/2a0000019e632ef173f5da47e08bf0fea25a/orig"
  ],
  "videoCount": 0,
  "pinned": false,
  "ownerReply": null,
  "ownerReplyAt": null,
  "page": 1,
  "position": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-13T00:00:00Z"
}
```

### 💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

| Event | USD | What it is |
|---|---:|---|
| `actor-start` | $0.20 | One-off warm-up charge per run |
| `result-row` | $0.003 | Per unique dataset item |

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ **$3.20**. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

### 🚧 Limitations

- Reviews come in Yandex's default relevance order; `maxReviews` takes the first reviews in that order, not the newest.
- `maxReviews` is a per-organization cap of up to 10,000 reviews. Yandex serves 50 reviews per page.
- Search by keyword or city is not part of this Actor; give it organization ids or URLs. For place search see our Yandex Maps Places Scraper.
- Reviewer names are shown as Yandex shows them, often a first name and an initial.
- Reviews hidden by Yandex or removed by moderation are not returned.

### ❓ FAQ

**How much does it cost?**

$0.003 per review, which is $3.00 per 1,000 reviews, plus a one-off $0.20 start fee per run. Duplicate reviews are never charged.

**Where do I find the organization id?**

Open the place on Yandex Maps. The URL looks like `https://yandex.com/maps/org/khachapuri_i_vino/158767885594/`; the long number at the end is the id. You can also paste the whole URL into the input.

**In which language do I get the reviews?**

In the language the reviewer wrote them, with `textLanguage` telling you which. Most reviews are Russian. Machine translations are not included.

**Does it return the owner's reply?**

Yes. When the organization answered a review, `ownerReply` holds the text and `ownerReplyAt` the time; otherwise both are empty.

**Why did I get fewer reviews than maxReviews?**

The organization has fewer reviews than the cap, or Yandex stopped serving pages mid-run. The run still succeeds and the status message says what was scraped and where it stopped.

**Do I need a Yandex account or API key?**

No. The Actor reads publicly listed Yandex Maps reviews and needs no login.

### 💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an
issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab on Apify Console — we ship
fixes weekly and we read every report.

***

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Built by **[Devil Scrapes](https://apify.com/DevilScrapes)** 😈 — a small fleet of
opinionated public-data Actors. Honest pricing, real engineering, zero fine print.

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# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/yandex-maps-reviews-scraper/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `orgs` (type: `array`):

Yandex Maps organizations to read reviews for. Each item is a numeric organization id (158767885594) or a Yandex Maps org URL such as https://yandex.com/maps/org/khachapuri_i_vino/158767885594/ (the id is the long number at the end of the URL).

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

Cap on reviews per organization. Yandex serves 50 reviews per page; paging stops when the cap or the last page is reached.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy configuration. Defaults to a Russian residential exit; datacenter proxies also work but are blocked more often.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "orgs": [
    "158767885594",
    "243088808182"
  ],
  "maxReviews": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "RU"
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `datasetItems` (type: `string`):

All dataset items as JSON.

## `datasetItemsCsv` (type: `string`):

Same data exported to CSV.

## `datasetView` (type: `string`):

Open the run dataset in the Console.

# 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 = {
    "orgs": [
        "158767885594",
        "243088808182"
    ],
    "maxReviews": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "RU"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("devilscrapes/yandex-maps-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 = {
    "orgs": [
        "158767885594",
        "243088808182",
    ],
    "maxReviews": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "RU",
    },
}

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "orgs": [
    "158767885594",
    "243088808182"
  ],
  "maxReviews": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "RU"
  }
}' |
apify call devilscrapes/yandex-maps-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,devilscrapes/yandex-maps-reviews-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/1DCvuXHySJq9zzkpN/builds/ncpgAfcUifOLQQSGs/openapi.json