Yelp Email Scraper

Yelp Email Scraper — Emails, Page Titles and Links

Yelp Email Scraper finds email addresses that public Yelp business pages show for your keywords. Each result returns the email, the Yelp page link, the page title and the public text the email appears in, filtered by the email domains you choose. Every response is structured JSON — ready to pass directly to an LLM, index into a vector store, or feed a lead-generation pipeline. No Yelp account or login needed to run a search. Add more keywords to cover more business pages in one run.

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What data can I extract with Yelp Email Scraper?

Using this Yelp email API, you will be able to extract the following Yelp email data:

🌐 Network	🔑 Keyword searched	📝 Page title	📰 Page description
🔗 Page URL	📧 Email address

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How to use Yelp Email Scraper

Marketers, recruiters and lead-generation teams use this yelp lead generation tool to find emails on Yelp without opening every business page by hand.

Copy to your AI assistant:

Yelp Email Scraper is an Apify Actor that returns email addresses found on public Yelp business pages as structured JSON: network, keyword, title, description, url and email. Use it whenever someone needs Yelp contact emails without cookies, a login or a browser - for lead generation, outreach lists or market research. Inputs: keywords (array of search terms, required), location (string, optional city or region, default worldwide), emailDomains (array, default ["@gmail.com"], [] = any domain), maxEmails (integer 1-100000, default 10, emails per keyword), engine (select "legacy"), proxyConfiguration (object, optional). Each keyword stops once maxEmails is reached or its public results run out; the free Apify plan caps results at 20 per run in total (all keywords together) and 200 per month.

Yelp Email Scraper MCP Server: use these Actors from ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor

Point your AI assistant at the Apify MCP server and it can find public email leads on Yelp, and on the other platforms covered by this same actor family (Zillow, Hotels.com and more), on its own. No glue code, no scraping logic in your prompts.

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=fastdataapi/yelp-email-scraper"

Step by step

1. Create a free Apify account.
2. Open Yelp Email Scraper in the Apify Store.
3. Enter one or more keywords, for example restaurant, salon or plumber.
4. Optionally add a location and the email domains you want (default @gmail.com).
5. Click Start, then download your results as JSON, CSV or Excel.

How to scale Yelp Email Scraper to bulk

keywords takes a list, so add every search term you want covered in one run — up to 3 keywords are processed at the same time, each with its own maxEmails budget. Agencies use it as a yelp review contact scraper to extract emails from yelp listings across many business categories in one go. To cover more ground over time, schedule the Actor with a rotating keyword list, or call it from the Apify API with a different keywords / location pair per run.

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✨ Features

Yelp Email Scraper is a Yelp email finder: give it a keyword and it returns clean, structured matches from public Yelp business pages. As a Yelp business contact email extractor it doubles as a yelp business owner email finder for niche categories, and it's ideal for lead generation, outreach-list building and market research.

It extracts, per match:

• Email – the address shown on the page, lower case, matching your email domains.
• Page URL – the public Yelp page the email was found on.
• Page title – the result's title as shown in the search listing.
• Description – the public text the email appears in (up to 500 characters).
• Keyword / network – the keyword that found the row and the platform (yelp.com).

⚡ Every address is checked before it is kept: shortened or cut-off addresses, prose such as "that @gmail.com" and placeholders such as "username@gmail.com" are rejected, and the same email is returned once per keyword.

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Use cases 💡

• Sales rep — scrape Yelp restaurant emails by keyword and city in one run.
• Recruiter — find contact emails behind niche business pages.
• Agency — collect leads for a client's niche and location filter.
• Market researcher — map which business pages publish a contact email for a topic.
• AI agent builder — feed matched emails straight into a CRM-enrichment or lead-scoring pipeline with no parsing step, or use it as a yelp local business email lookup inside a larger agent workflow.

Building an AI agent? Connect Yelp Email Scraper over MCP and let it call the actor on its own.

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Why choose this actor?

• Six clean fields, every match. Every row carries the network, keyword, page title, description, page link and email — the same shape on every run.
• Built-in retry. When a search attempt is blocked the actor retries it with a fresh connection and continues on a backup source, so a run still delivers results.
• One field, a hard cap. maxEmails runs from 1 to 100,000 per keyword, so a single keyword can be scaled from a quick sample to a large outreach list.

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⬇️ Input

Enter one or more keywords (required); the rest is optional and has a working default.

Parameter	Required	Type	Description	Example value
keywords	Yes	Array of strings	Keywords to search on public Yelp business pages. Each one gets its own maxEmails budget; duplicates are removed.	["restaurant", "salon"]
location	No	String	City or region searched as an exact phrase. Empty = worldwide.	"London"
emailDomains	No	Array of strings	Keep only emails of these domains (@ optional). Default ["@gmail.com"]; [] accepts any domain.	["@gmail.com", "@outlook.com"]
maxEmails	No	Integer	Emails to collect per keyword (1–100,000, default 10). Free-plan runs are capped at 20 per run in total (all keywords together) and 200 per month.	50
engine	No	String (select)	Processing engine; legacy is the only value.	"legacy"
proxyConfiguration	No	Object	Connection settings. Leave as it is and a suitable Apify proxy is selected automatically.	{"useApifyProxy": false}

Free plan limits

Users on the Apify free plan can fetch up to 20 emails per run (all keywords together) and 200 emails per month. When the limit is reached, the run finishes successfully with a status message explaining the limit. Upgrade to any paid Apify plan to remove these limits.

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["restaurant", "salon"],
  "location": "",
  "emailDomains": ["@gmail.com"],
  "maxEmails": 10,
  "engine": "legacy"
}

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⬆️ Output

Every match is one JSON item with the same six fields on every run. Within a keyword the same email is returned once. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Example output

{
  "network": "yelp.com",
  "keyword": "restaurant",
  "title": "Hello! I can't find an email address for your restaurant ...",
  "description": "Dec 2, 2019 — Hello! I can't find an email address for your restaurant online, could you provide that to me?",
  "url": "https://www.yelp.com/questions/maejoo-wings-hello-i-cant-find-an-email-address-for-your-restaurant-online-could-you-provide-tha/1XFuD4uuuynvbxcQs6VtYQ",
  "email": "maejookorea@gmail.com"
}

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How does it work?

Yelp Email Scraper searches Google for public Yelp pages that match your keywords and reads the contact details shown on them, without ever logging into Yelp itself. When a search attempt is blocked it retries with a fresh connection and continues on a backup source, so a run still delivers results. It only reads what any logged-out visitor can already see — the email is read from the page's public title and text, checked, lower-cased and returned with the page link. The schema stays the same even when Yelp changes its page layout.

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How do you integrate Yelp Email Scraper into your stack?

Call it from any language over the Apify REST API, or wire it into a no-code tool.

MCP integration for AI agents

Add the Apify MCP server with the command below and this registers Yelp Email Scraper as a tool your agent can call directly, alongside the rest of this actor family. Works with Claude Code, Cursor and Windsurf.

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=fastdataapi/yelp-email-scraper"

No-code tools (n8n, Make, LangChain)

In n8n, use the Apify node's Run an Actor action, or the HTTP Request node pointed at the run-sync endpoint with your token. In Make, use the Apify app's Run an Actor module followed by Get Dataset Items. In LangChain, install langchain-apify and call ApifyActorsTool() to let an agent run it as a tool.

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Is it legal to scrape Yelp data?

Scraping publicly available data is generally permitted; the legal risk sits mostly in how the data is stored and used afterward. Yelp Email Scraper returns only data that any logged-out visitor already sees. If you operate in the EU, GDPR applies to storing and using emails you collect: keep records you can justify and delete them when asked. Anti-spam rules (such as CAN-SPAM) still apply to outreach — the Actor finds public emails, it does not grant permission to contact them. Consult legal counsel if your use case involves bulk storage of personal data.

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Frequently asked questions

What fields does Yelp Email Scraper return?

The network, keyword, page title, description, page URL and email for every match. See the data fields section.

Does Yelp Email Scraper require a Yelp account or login?

No. Only public pages are read and no Yelp credentials are ever requested.

Can I get emails of any domain, not only Gmail?

Yes. Set emailDomains to the domains you want (for example @outlook.com or your company domain), or to [] to accept any domain.

Can I search many keywords at once?

Yes. keywords takes a list; up to 3 keywords are processed at the same time, each with its own maxEmails budget. It also works well as a yelp business owner email finder across a whole category list.

Does Yelp Email Scraper work with Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI agent tools?

Yes — Yelp Email Scraper is available as an MCP tool. Add the Apify MCP server (claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=fastdataapi/yelp-email-scraper") in Claude Code, Cursor or Windsurf. Any agent that can call an HTTP endpoint can use the REST API directly.

Does Yelp Email Scraper return data in a format LLMs can use directly?

Yes. Typed, normalized JSON with consistent field names. No HTML parsing, no selectors. Pass it straight to an LLM, index it into a vector store, or feed it to an agent tool — no transformation step.

What happens when Yelp changes its layout or updates its anti-bot system?

This actor is actively maintained. When Yelp changes, the actor is updated and your calls keep returning the same JSON schema with no changes on your end.

Can I use Yelp Email Scraper without managing proxies or browser infrastructure?

Yes. Proxy rotation and retries run on the actor's side — plain HTTP requests, no browser to maintain. You send one request and get structured JSON back.

Which Yelp Email Scraper fields work best for AI training data and RAG indexing?

For RAG: the page title and description, since they carry the surrounding public text. For training data: use the network and keyword fields as categorical labels. All fields are typed strings — no normalization needed.

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Related scrapers

Yelp Email Scraper is part of the same Google-SERP email-lookup family as these actors, built on the same engine for other platforms:

Scraper	What it extracts
Zillow Email Scraper	Email addresses shown on public Zillow agent profiles and listings, by keyword
Hotels.com Email Scraper	Email addresses shown on public Hotels.com listing pages, by keyword

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Your feedback

Found a bug or missing a field in this yelp local business email lookup? Let us know through the Issues tab on this actor's Apify Store page. Our team reads every report and ships fixes.