Yelp Reviews Scraper

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

Why use this scraper?

• Rating, full text, author profile, photos, reactions, owner replies, and previous review history
• Pass Yelp business URLs, aliases (e.g. gary-danko-san-francisco), or encrypted business IDs (e.g. WavvLdfdP6g8aZTtbBQHTw)
• 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"
  ]
}

Scrape by encrypted business ID

{
  "businesses": ["WavvLdfdP6g8aZTtbBQHTw"]
}

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, aliases, or encrypted business IDs
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"
}