Capterra Reviews Scraper

Searches Capterra.com for a software category or product name and returns the products listed on the search results page: product name, Capterra URL, and the rating and review count shown on the result card when they are present. It is meant for market research, competitor lists and quick category snapshots. It does not download individual review texts.

Features

• Runs a Capterra search for any free-text query (category or product name)
• Extracts every product link on the first search results page
• Best-effort rating and review count parsed from the result card (may be null when Capterra changes its markup)
• maxItems caps how many products are pushed to the dataset
• Deduplicates products by URL within the run
• Loads the page in a headless browser through a residential proxy layer (US)

Input

Field	Type	Required / default	Description
query	string	required, default project management	Product category or software name to search on Capterra
maxItems	integer	default 10	Maximum number of products to return

Example input:

{
  "query": "project management",
  "maxItems": 10
}

Output

One dataset item per product found on the search results page:

• title - product name as shown in the result link
• url - Capterra product page URL (/software/<name>/p/<id>)
• rating - star rating parsed from the card, or null
• reviewCount - number of reviews parsed from the card, or null
• source - always Capterra

If no product is found, the run pushes a single item with a warning field instead.

{
  "title": "Asana",
  "url": "https://www.capterra.com/software/asana/p/123456/",
  "rating": 4.5,
  "reviewCount": 12000,
  "source": "Capterra"
}

Pricing

Pay per event. The Actor charges the apify-default-dataset-item event ("Review Scraped") at $0.006 per product item pushed to the dataset. Warning items are not charged. There is no separate Actor start fee.

Usage

From the Apify console, open the Actor, fill in query and maxItems, and click Start. Results appear in the default dataset.

Via API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/gio21~capterra-reviews-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "project management", "maxItems": 10}'

Limitations

• Only the first search results page is scraped, there is no pagination, so runs return roughly 10 to 30 products at most
• Individual reviews, reviewer names, pros and cons and review dates are not extracted
• rating and reviewCount depend on CSS class names on the results page and can come back null
• Capterra uses bot protection; if the page is blocked or renders no product links, the run returns a single warning item
• Each run opens a headless browser and waits for the page to settle, so expect around 10 to 30 seconds per run

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Capterra or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.