# Zoover Reviews Scraper — filters, awards & rich hotel stats (`korado_labs/zoover-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Scrape guest reviews from Zoover.nl and Zoover.be hotels: text, scores, category ratings, hotelier replies, photos. Filter by travel party, score, language or date — pay only for matching reviews. Rich hotel summary with awards and rating distributions.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/korado\_labs/zoover-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Korado Labs](https://apify.com/korado_labs) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel, E-commerce, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 50.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 review scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 🏨 Zoover Reviews Scraper — filters, awards & rich hotel stats

Scrape **real guest reviews from Zoover** — one of Europe's largest independent travel review platforms — into a clean, structured dataset. Works with **Zoover.nl and Zoover.be** hotel pages.

You get the full review content (title, text, overall score, per-category scores, travel date, travel party, reviewer name & verification, likes, traveler photos, hotelier replies) **plus a rich hotel summary** with aggregated category ratings, Zoover award history, star rating, rating distribution, and contact details.

### 💡 Why this scraper

| | This Actor | Typical alternatives |
|---|---|---|
| Review fields | Full superset incl. replies, photos (public HTTPS URLs), update timestamps | Core fields only |
| **Built-in filters** | Travel party, min/max score, language, photos-only, reply-only — **you only pay for reviews that match** | Scrape everything, filter later, pay for everything |
| Hotel summary | Aggregated category scores, **Zoover awards per year**, star rating, **rating & travel-party distributions**, location hierarchy, contact info | Basic metadata |
| Domains | zoover.nl + zoover.be | zoover.nl |
| Actor start fee | **$0** | $0.002 |
| Price per review | $0.005 | $0.005 |

### 🛠 How to use

1. Paste one or more Zoover hotel URLs into **Hotel URLs**, e.g.
   `https://www.zoover.nl/a/128192/side-mare-resort-spa`
2. Optionally set **Max reviews per hotel**, a **Cutoff date** for incremental scrapes, and any filters.
3. Run, then export as JSON, CSV, Excel or via API.

Leaving the input empty runs a small demo (10 reviews of a sample hotel) so you can inspect the output format for a few cents.

### 📥 Input example

```json
{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.zoover.nl/a/128192/side-mare-resort-spa" }],
    "maxReviewsPerHotel": 50,
    "cutoffDate": "2025-01-01",
    "travelParties": ["COUPLE", "FRIENDS"],
    "minScore": 8,
    "languages": ["nl"],
    "alwaysReturnSummary": true
}
```

### 📤 Output

> **Resilience note:** reviews and summaries always come from Zoover's own APIs (with automatic zoover.nl ⇄ zoover.be mirror failover). Page-level enrichment fields (`awards`, `starRating`, `giataId`, `categoryScores`, `contact`) are best-effort: if Zoover shields its hotel pages, they may be `null` while all reviews still deliver in full.

Two record types (`recordType` field): `review` and `summary`.

#### Review record

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `reviewId` / `reviewHeliosId` | Stable Zoover review ID |
| `reviewDate` / `reviewUpdatedDate` | Posted / last updated (ISO 8601) |
| `travelDate` | Date of the stay |
| `reviewScore` | Overall score 1–10 |
| `reviewTitle`, `reviewText`, `reviewTextLength` | Full review content |
| `reviewLanguage` | e.g. `nl`, `de`, `en` |
| `userName`, `userVerified`, `traveledWith`, `likes` | Reviewer details |
| `scoreDetails` | Per-category scores (childFriendly, hygiene, location, priceQuality, room, service, …) — every category Zoover returns is passed through |
| `reply`, `repliesRaw` | Hotelier reply (mapped + raw) |
| `images` | Traveler photos as public HTTPS URLs |
| `hotelName`, `hotelUrl`, `hotelHeliosId`, `hotelId` | Hotel context on every row — convenient for multi-hotel runs |

#### Summary record (`hotelSummary`)

Aggregated rating & review count, per-category score averages, star rating, **Zoover awards by year**, rating distribution (how many 10s, 9s, …), travel-party distribution, country/region/city, contact info, GIATA ID, and how many reviews this run scraped vs. the total on Zoover.

### 💰 Pricing example

No actor start fee. You pay **$0.005 per review** and **$0.002 per hotel summary** — only for delivered rows.

- 100 reviews + 1 summary = **$0.502**
- Daily incremental check of 10 hotels with `cutoffDate` (say 12 new reviews + 10 summaries) = **$0.08**

### 🔁 Incremental scraping

Set `cutoffDate` to the date of your last run: the Actor stops paginating as soon as it reaches older reviews, so incremental runs are fast and cheap. `reviewId` is stable, so deduplication downstream is trivial.

### ⚠️ Notes

- Scores use Zoover's 1–10 scale.
- `cutoffDate` is interpreted as a local date in the Europe/Berlin timezone (Zoover does not expose timezones).
- The Actor only accesses publicly available data.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Zoover hotel detail page URLs (zoover.nl or zoover.be), e.g. `https://www.zoover.nl/a/128192/side-mare-resort-spa`. If left empty, a demo hotel is scraped with 10 reviews so you can see the output format.

## `maxReviewsPerHotel` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of reviews to return per hotel (after filters). Only returned reviews are charged.

## `cutoffDate` (type: `string`):

Only keep reviews posted on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD, Europe/Berlin local date). Leave empty for all reviews. Great for incremental daily/weekly scrapes.

## `travelParties` (type: `array`):

Only keep reviews from these travel party types. Leave empty for all.

## `minScore` (type: `integer`):

Only keep reviews with an overall score of at least this value (1–10).

## `maxScore` (type: `integer`):

Only keep reviews with an overall score of at most this value (1–10). Combine with Minimum score to isolate e.g. negative reviews (1–6).

## `languages` (type: `array`):

Only keep reviews written in these languages (ISO codes as used by Zoover, e.g. `nl`, `de`, `en`). Leave empty for all.

## `onlyWithImages` (type: `boolean`):

Only keep reviews that have at least one traveler photo attached.

## `onlyWithReply` (type: `boolean`):

Only keep reviews the hotel has replied to.

## `alwaysReturnSummary` (type: `boolean`):

Return one hotel summary record per hotel (aggregated ratings, awards, rating distribution) even if no review passes the filters.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.zoover.nl/a/128192/side-mare-resort-spa"
    }
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerHotel": 100,
  "cutoffDate": "2025-01-01",
  "languages": [
    "nl",
    "de"
  ],
  "onlyWithImages": false,
  "onlyWithReply": false,
  "alwaysReturnSummary": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `reviews` (type: `string`):

All scraped review and hotel-summary records as JSON. Review records carry text, scores, category ratings, hotelier replies and photo URLs; summary records carry hotel-level aggregates, awards and rating distributions.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.zoover.nl/a/128192/side-mare-resort-spa"
        }
    ],
    "maxReviewsPerHotel": 100,
    "alwaysReturnSummary": true
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("korado_labs/zoover-reviews-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.zoover.nl/a/128192/side-mare-resort-spa" }],
    "maxReviewsPerHotel": 100,
    "alwaysReturnSummary": True,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("korado_labs/zoover-reviews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.zoover.nl/a/128192/side-mare-resort-spa"
    }
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerHotel": 100,
  "alwaysReturnSummary": true
}' |
apify call korado_labs/zoover-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,korado_labs/zoover-reviews-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/S4duioQ3MdsaeCSIU/builds/FaH5X8YJO9TyiREhP/openapi.json