Indeed Company Reviews Spider

Introduction

The Indeed Company Reviews Spider is an Apify Actor designed to scrape employee reviews from company pages on Indeed.com. It extracts detailed review information including job title, normalized job title, location, ratings, review text, pros, cons, employment status, review dates, and individual review identifiers.

This Actor is useful for businesses, researchers, recruiters, and analysts who need structured employee feedback and company-review data from Indeed.

Features

• Comprehensive Review Extraction: Scrapes employee review details including job title, location, ratings, review text, pros, cons, and employment status.

• Normalized Job Titles: Provides both the original job title and a normalized job title for easier analysis and categorization.

• Detailed Rating Data: Extracts overall ratings as well as ratings for compensation, culture, job security, management, and work-life balance.

• Review Metadata: Includes review IDs, encrypted review IDs, review URLs, submission dates, review types, and indexability information.

• Country Identification: Extracts the country associated with the review.

• Configurable Item Limit: Allows you to control the maximum number of reviews returned.

• Residential Proxy Support: Supports Apify Residential proxies for reliable access to Indeed.

• Structured Output: Returns clean JSON objects that can be easily integrated into databases, spreadsheets, analytics pipelines, or other applications.

• Apify Integration: Runs directly on the Apify platform with built-in monitoring and dataset export capabilities.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
CompanyUrls	array	Yes	A list of Indeed company URLs to scrape reviews from.	["https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Dairy-Farmers-of-America,-Inc."]
itemLimit	integer	No	Maximum number of reviews to extract.	2
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Proxy configuration used when accessing Indeed.	{"useApifyProxy": true}
useApifyProxy	boolean	No	Enables the Apify Proxy.	true
apifyProxyGroups	array	No	Apify Proxy groups to use. Residential proxy is recommended.	["RESIDENTIAL"]

Example Usage

Input JSON

{
  "CompanyUrls": [
    "https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Dairy-Farmers-of-America,-Inc."
  ],
  "itemLimit": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}

Output Format

The Actor returns a JSON array where each object represents one Indeed employee review.

Example Output

[
  {
    "job_title": "Picking",
    "norm_job_title": "Order Picker",
    "location": "Newark, NJ",
    "country": "US",
    "submission_date": "August 19, 2026",
    "overall_rating": 3,
    "helpful": 0,
    "unhelpful": 0,
    "current_employee": true,
    "review_uid": "1k0e4tj3dkgqd800",
    "encrypted_review_id": "ee8ad21311fc849f",
    "review_url": "/cmp/Dairy-Farmers-of-America,-Inc./reviews/5-hours-for-working?id=ee8ad21311fc849f",
    "sharing_link": "https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Dairy-Farmers-of-America,-Inc./reviews/5-hours-for-working?id=ee8ad21311fc849f",
    "review_type": "LIST",
    "indexable": false,
    "title_text": "5 hours for working ",
    "review_text": "The reason why am coming to support the farm work is to help the company in a prefect way not in bad attitude.\nI promise not to have any thing wrong with my employers I will always be happy with them to support the job ",
    "language_tag": "",
    "pros": "Good attitude",
    "cons": "Work hard",
    "compensation_and_benefits_rating": 2,
    "compensation_and_benefits_type": "Compensation/Benefits",
    "culture_and_values_rating": 3,
    "culture_and_values_type": "Job Culture",
    "job_security_advancement_rating": 3,
    "job_security_advancement_type": "Job Security/Advancement",
    "management_rating": 3,
    "management_type": "Management",
    "work_life_balance_rating": 2,
    "work_life_balance_type": "Job Work/Life Balance",
    "input_source_key": "start_url:https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Dairy-Farmers-of-America,-Inc./reviews",
    "actor_id": null,
    "run_id": null
  }
]

Output Fields

Field	Type	Description
job_title	string	Original job title provided by the reviewer.
norm_job_title	string	Normalized version of the job title.
location	string	Location associated with the review.
country	string	Country code associated with the review.
submission_date	string	Date when the review was submitted.
overall_rating	integer	Overall rating given by the reviewer.
helpful	integer	Number of helpful votes received by the review.
unhelpful	integer	Number of unhelpful votes received by the review.
current_employee	boolean	Indicates whether the reviewer is currently employed by the company.
review_uid	string	Unique identifier associated with the review.
encrypted_review_id	string	Encrypted Indeed review identifier.
review_url	string	Relative URL of the review on Indeed.
sharing_link	string	Full URL that can be used to access the review.
review_type	string	Type of review returned by Indeed.
indexable	boolean	Indicates whether the review is indexable.
title_text	string	Title of the employee review.
review_text	string	Full text of the employee review.
language_tag	string	Language tag associated with the review.
pros	string	Positive aspects mentioned by the reviewer.
cons	string	Negative aspects mentioned by the reviewer.
compensation_and_benefits_rating	integer	Rating for compensation and benefits.
compensation_and_benefits_type	string	Rating category name for compensation and benefits.
culture_and_values_rating	integer	Rating for culture and values.
culture_and_values_type	string	Rating category name for job culture.
job_security_advancement_rating	integer	Rating for job security and advancement.
job_security_advancement_type	string	Rating category name for job security and advancement.
management_rating	integer	Rating for management.
management_type	string	Rating category name for management.
work_life_balance_rating	integer	Rating for work-life balance.
work_life_balance_type	string	Rating category name for work-life balance.
input_source_key	string	Identifies the source URL used to retrieve the reviews.
actor_id	string/null	Apify Actor ID when available.
run_id	string/null	Apify run ID when available.

Rating Fields

The Actor extracts multiple rating categories from each review:

• Overall Rating
• Compensation & Benefits
• Culture & Values
• Job Security & Advancement
• Management
• Work-Life Balance

Ratings are returned as numeric values. A value of 0 indicates that a particular rating was not provided in the review.

Use Cases

Company Research

Analyze employee sentiment and experiences across different companies.

Competitive Intelligence

Compare employee satisfaction, management ratings, compensation, and workplace culture between competitors.

Recruitment Research

Understand how employees perceive a company before making hiring or recruitment decisions.

Employer Branding

Identify recurring positive and negative themes in employee feedback.

Workforce Analytics

Analyze job-specific employee satisfaction and identify trends across roles and locations.

Academic Research

Collect structured employee-review data for research into workplace culture, compensation, job satisfaction, and employment trends.

Historical Review Monitoring

Track changes in employee sentiment and company ratings over time.

Proxy Configuration

Indeed may require residential IP addresses for reliable scraping. The Actor supports Apify Residential proxies through the proxyConfiguration parameter.

Example:

{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}

Using the Residential proxy group can improve reliability when accessing Indeed pages at scale.

Installation and Usage

1. Search for Indeed Company Reviews Spider in the Apify Store.
2. Click Try for free or Run.
3. Enter one or more Indeed company URLs.
4. Set the desired itemLimit.
5. Configure the Apify Residential proxy if required.
6. Click Start.
7. Monitor the Actor run from the Apify console.
8. Export the results in JSON, CSV, Excel, or another supported format.

Example Company URL

https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Dairy-Farmers-of-America,-Inc.

The Actor automatically uses the company's Indeed review section as the source for extracting employee reviews.

Example Minimal Input

{
  "CompanyUrls": [
    "https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Dairy-Farmers-of-America,-Inc."
  ],
  "itemLimit": 2
}

Example Input with Residential Proxy

{
  "CompanyUrls": [
    "https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Dairy-Farmers-of-America,-Inc."
  ],
  "itemLimit": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}

Support

For custom output formats, feature requests, or bug reports, please contact:

• Email: support@getdataforme.com
• Subject: custom support
• Contact form: https://getdataforme.com/contact/

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