Costco Reviews Scraper

Introduction

The Costco Reviews Scraper is an Apify Actor that extracts customer reviews from Costco product pages. Provide one or more product URLs and proxy settings, and receive a structured JSON array of detailed review data.

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Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
proxyConfiguration	object	Yes	Proxy settings to avoid IP blocks and ensure reliable scraping.
└─ useApifyProxy	boolean	Yes	Whether to route requests through Apify Proxy.
└─ apifyProxyGroups	string[]	No	List of Apify Proxy groups to use (e.g., ["RESIDENTIAL"]).
urls	string[]	Yes	Array of Costco product page URLs to scrape reviews from.

Example Input

{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "urls": [
    "https://www.costco.com/collin-street-bakery-mini-pecan-cake-bundle-9-oz-per-cake.product.4000275908.html"
  ]
}

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Features

• Proxy Integration – Built‑in Apify Proxy support to bypass rate limits and geo‑restrictions.
• Batch URL Processing – Scrape reviews from multiple Costco products in a single run.
• Comprehensive Review Data – Retrieves IDs, timestamps, titles, text, ratings, feedback counts, author info, and media URLs.
• Structured JSON Output – Clean, consistent schema for easy downstream consumption.
• Robust Error Handling – Automatic retries on transient network or parsing errors.

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Output

The Actor returns a JSON array where each element represents one review:

[
  {
    "product_id": "4000275908",
    "review_id": "234625841",
    "submission_time": "2024-07-02T04:45:52.000+00:00",
    "last_modification_time": "2024-11-19T01:15:10.000+00:00",
    "moderation_status": "APPROVED",
    "is_featured": false,
    "is_syndicated": false,
    "title": "The regular fruit cake was really good.",
    "review_text": "The regular fruit cake in the cowboy tin was very good, however the one with whole pecans on top had some stale pecans on top. ...",
    "rating": 3,
    "rating_range": 5,
    "is_recommended": false,
    "helpfulness": 1,
    "total_feedback_count": 4,
    "positive_feedback_count": 4,
    "negative_feedback_count": 0,
    "author_id": "97915859-150c-4196-bace-75584b878985",
    "user_nickname": "Victoria W",
    "user_location": "Battle Ground, WA",
    "verified_purchaser": true,
    "content_locale": "en_US",
    "product_name": "Collin Street Bakery Mini Pecan Cake Bundle, 9 oz. per Cake",
    "total_comment_count": 0,
    "photo_urls": [],
    "video_urls": []
  },
  {
    "product_id": "4000275908",
    "review_id": "234618633",
    "submission_time": "2024-07-01T20:32:01.000+00:00",
    "last_modification_time": "2024-12-13T18:42:43.000+00:00",
    "moderation_status": "APPROVED",
    "is_featured": false,
    "is_syndicated": false,
    "title": "If you like sweet this is for you",
    "review_text": "It’s so sweet, not what I expect!",
    "rating": 2,
    "rating_range": 5,
    "is_recommended": false,
    "helpfulness": 0.83,
    "total_feedback_count": 6,
    "positive_feedback_count": 5,
    "negative_feedback_count": 1,
    "author_id": "322ab5de-41ac-471a-975e-5ad0806dea0e",
    "user_nickname": "Renan",
    "user_location": null,
    "verified_purchaser": true,
    "content_locale": "en_US",
    "product_name": "Collin Street Bakery Mini Pecan Cake Bundle, 9 oz. per Cake",
    "total_comment_count": 0,
    "photo_urls": [],
    "video_urls": []
  }
]

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Possible Use Cases

• Sentiment Analysis on customer feedback for product insights.
• Quality Assurance to detect common issues or praises.
• Market Research for competitive benchmarking and trend analysis.
• Customer Support Automation by flagging low‑rated reviews for follow‑up.
• Data Aggregation for dashboards, reports, or machine‑learning pipelines.

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