Indeed Reviews Scraper

How it works

This actor allows you to scrape indeed reviews and get important details such as review title, description or body of review, rating, date, location, author's job title and is author a current or former employee, review URL, pros and cons of a review, comment(s) of review.

Features

Multiple Search Queries: Supports scraping based on multiple search URLs, formatted as:

• https://uk.indeed.com/cmp/Carrefour/reviews
• https://uk.indeed.com/cmp/Carrefour/reviews?fcountry=ALL
• https://fr.indeed.com/cmp/Aza%C3%A9-1/reviews

How to Use

1. Set Up: Ensure you have an Apify account and access to the Apify platform.
2. (Optional) Set Max number reviews (parameter: maxNumberOfReviews) scrape maximum number of reviews.
3. (Optional) Set Max date (parameter: targetDate) scrape reviews that are in range from current or today's dte until max date.
4. (Optional) I recommend to user and configure proxy settings for enhanced reliability as Indeed uses Cloudflare.
5. Run the actor and obtain the extracted data in your preferred format.
6. Data Collection: The scraper will output data in your chosen format, which can include JSON, HTML, CSV, Excel, or others as supported by Apify.

Input Data

Here's a simple example of how to set up a search for "medical" groups in Facebook:

1{
2    "maxNumberOfReviews": 100,
3    "targetDate": "2024-04-03",
4    "proxyConfiguration": {
5        "useApifyProxy": true,
6        "apifyProxyGroups": [
7            "RESIDENTIAL"
8        ]
9    },
10    "startUrls": [
11        {
12            "url": "https://fr.indeed.com/cmp/Aza%C3%A9-1/reviews"
13        }
14    ]
15}

Output Structure

The output data typically includes:

1{
2    "entity": {
3        "totalRating": "3.9",
4        "totalReviews": 27690,
5        "ratingDetails": {
6            "1": 1500,
7            "2": 1700,
8            "3": 6000,
9            "4": 8700,
10            "5": 9800
11        }
12    },
13    "reviews": [
14        {
15            "id": "1ed1trg2onm94800",
16            "url": "https://uk.indeed.com/cmp/Carrefour/reviews/very-good-to-work-for-good-management?id=2f6bc66df4a19b06",
17            "author": {
18                "jobTitle": "Care Assistant",
19                "isCurrentlyWorking": false
20            },
21            "date": "2020-07-12T00:00:00.000Z",
22            "location": "Care Assistant",
23            "rating": "4.0",
24            "title": "Very good to work for good management",
25            "reviewBody": "Carefore was a good company to work for good management and a very lovely lady I looked after for 2 and a half years management always there to listen and if you needed them they was always there.",
26            "points": {
27                "positivePoints": "Good company",
28                "negativePoints": "Live in care got to much for me"
29            }
30        },
31        {
32            "id": "1b21ma05q17d57ls",
33            "url": "https://uk.indeed.com/cmp/Carrefour/reviews/productive-and-fun-work-place?id=ec00a7d316caa229",
34            "author": {
35                "jobTitle": "no sales",
36                "isCurrentlyWorking": false
37            },
38            "date": "2016-11-20T00:00:00.000Z",
39            "location": "no sales",
40            "rating": "3.0",
41            "title": "productive and fun work place",
42            "reviewBody": "i had a very good experience one day at work .i avoided a big accident while driving a folk lift machine,when a pallet was about to fall down from 10m.height,but fortunately nothing happen",
43            "points": {
44                "positivePoints": "yes free lunch",
45                "negativePoints": "12hours"
46            }
47        },
48        ...
49    ]
50}

Best Practices

• Rate Limiting: Respect indeed's terms of service by avoiding overly frequent requests.
• Data Storage: Utilize Apify's data storage solutions for efficient data management.