Yelp Reviews Scraper

Scrape all reviews for any Yelp business. Full review text, ratings, author profiles, photos, reactions, owner replies. Accepts business URLs or aliases.

Why use this scraper?

• Rating, full text, author profile, photos, reactions, owner replies, and previous review history
• Pass Yelp business URLs or just the alias (e.g. gary-danko-san-francisco)
• Sort by date, rating, or elite status; filter by star rating
• Fetch reviews in any language Yelp supports
• Retries 503s with exponential backoff and rotates Apify proxy sessions on block

Use cases

• Track reviews for your business or competitors over time
• Feed structured review text into sentiment / NLP pipelines
• Compare ratings and review volume across businesses for market research
• Build databases of businesses with their review profiles

How to use

Scrape reviews for a single business

{
  "businesses": ["https://www.yelp.com/biz/gary-danko-san-francisco"]
}

Scrape multiple businesses by alias

{
  "businesses": [
    "gary-danko-san-francisco",
    "house-of-prime-rib-san-francisco"
  ]
}

Get newest reviews only

{
  "businesses": ["gary-danko-san-francisco"],
  "sortBy": "DATE_DESC",
  "maxReviewsPerBusiness": 100
}

Filter by rating

{
  "businesses": ["gary-danko-san-francisco"],
  "ratings": [1, 2],
  "sortBy": "DATE_DESC"
}

Scrape reviews in another language

{
  "businesses": ["gary-danko-san-francisco"],
  "languageCode": "zh"
}

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
businesses	string[]	(required)	Yelp business URLs or aliases
sortBy	select	DATE_DESC	DATE_DESC, DATE_ASC, RATING_DESC, RATING_ASC, ELITES_DESC
ratings	number[]	[1,2,3,4,5]	Only include reviews with these star ratings (1-5)
maxReviewsPerBusiness	number	20	Maximum reviews per business. Set to 0 for no limit (all reviews).
languageCode	string	en	Language code for reviews (e.g. en, zh, de)

Output

Each review contains the following structured fields:

Review details

{
  "id": "abc123",
  "businessAlias": "gary-danko-san-francisco",
  "businessName": "Gary Danko",
  "businessEncId": "WavvLdfdP6g8aZTtbBQHTw",
  "rating": 5,
  "text": "An absolutely wonderful dining experience...",
  "language": "en",
  "createdAt": "2026-03-30T21:18:35Z"
}

Author profile

{
  "author": {
    "id": "author1",
    "displayName": "Lin F.",
    "displayLocation": "Murrieta, CA",
    "reviewCount": 100,
    "friendCount": 50,
    "photoCount": 200,
    "eliteYear": "26",
    "profilePhotoUrl": "https://..."
  }
}

Feedback & Reactions

{
  "feedback": {
    "usefulCount": 3,
    "funnyCount": 1,
    "coolCount": 2
  },
  "reactions": [
    { "type": "HELPFUL", "count": 5 },
    { "type": "THANKS", "count": 2 }
  ]
}

Photos

{
  "photos": [
    {
      "id": "photo1",
      "url": "https://...",
      "caption": "Delicious steak",
      "helpfulCount": 1
    }
  ]
}

Owner reply & history

{
  "ownerReply": "Thank you for visiting!",
  "previousReviewIds": ["prev1"]
}

Tags

{
  "tags": {
    "checkInCount": 2,
    "isFirstReviewer": false,
    "hasPaidThroughYelp": true
  },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-04-04T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Output formats

Download your data as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or access it via the Apify API.

Limitations

• Yelp may change their internal GraphQL API without notice, which could temporarily break the scraper.
• Reviews are paginated at 49 per request. Large businesses with thousands of reviews will take proportionally longer.
• Proxy rotation via Apify Proxy is recommended to avoid rate limiting.