TrustRadius Reviews, Products, Categories & Compare Scraper

How it works

All-in-one TrustRadius.com scraper — paste any mix of URL kinds in the same input list and the actor auto-classifies each one:

Input	Row(s) emitted
Any product URL — /products/{slug}, /products/{slug}/reviews, or /products/{slug}/reviews/all	1 product row + N review rows — all three variants are treated identically. The actor fetches both the product page (rich SoftwareApplication JSON-LD with name/description/awards/featureList/vendor + 5 sample reviews with reviewer.profilePicUrl + linkedInUrl nested) and /reviews/all (paginated full review thread, 10 per page). Review count capped by maxReviewsPerProduct.
Category URL — /categories/{slug} (e.g. collaboration, crm)	N category-product rows — one per product in the category (rowType: "category-product"). Each row carries a nested categoryAggregate with description, total count, FAQs (from JSON-LD FAQPage), and related categories.
Compare URL — /compare-products/{slug-a}-vs-{slug-b}	1 compare row: side-by-side products with ratings, vendor info, logos
Sitemap URL — /sitemap_index.xml	Bulk discovery — expands the sitemap into product URLs and scrapes the first maxProductsFromSitemap (default 50).

Bare product slugs (slack) also work. JSON + CSV.

One product URL → product overview + every review. You don't need to paste both /reviews and /reviews/all — any product-shaped URL gives you the full coverage. The three variants (/products/slack, /products/slack/reviews, /products/slack/reviews/all) all dedupe to the same canonical URL internally.

Reviews are flat with the aggregate denormalized into every row. Every dataset row from a reviews URL is a single review. The thread-level aggregate (rating, awards, features, vendor info, total reviews, pages scraped) lives under each row's productAggregate field — duplicated on every review row from the same URL, but that keeps each row self-contained and makes billing trivial: one row = one paid outputrecord event.

Pure HTTP. No Puppeteer, no Playwright, no headless Chromium. TrustRadius is open (no Cloudflare) so we use a simple impit Firefox fingerprint at concurrency 5.

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TrustRadius's anti-bot posture is far gentler than Capterra's or G2's — there's no Cloudflare gate, no challenge JS, no IP banning at our request volume. We confirmed this with parallel probes across 9 URL kinds: every one returned 200 on the first impit attempt through Apify Residential US. robots.txt is permissive — /products/, /categories/, /compare-products/, and /sitemap_index.xml are all crawl-allowed.

So no warmup, no session rotation, no cookie jar. We fan out parallel requests through a sliding-window scheduler (default concurrency 5).

Data architecture

• Product / reviews / category pages use Next.js App-router with __next_f.push RSC streaming + comprehensive JSON-LD. We extract structured data from both sources:
  • SoftwareApplication JSON-LD ships aggregateRating, featureList, award, offers, plus 5 fully-structured review[] objects (Person author + Rating + reviewBody + datePublished).
  • The RSC stream carries reviewer:{firstName, lastName, jobTitle, companyName, companySize, department, user:{pictureUrl, linkedInProfileUrl, linkedInIsVerified}} blocks per visible review — same brace-balanced extractor we proved on Capterra.
• /reviews/all?page=N is the paginated review thread: 10 visible <article> cards per page, JSON-LD only carries aggregateRating here. We DOM-walk articles for title + date + rating + section headings (Q&A) and align them with RSC reviewer blocks for firmographics.
• /categories/{slug} has ItemList JSON-LD (product cards), FAQPage JSON-LD (editorial Q&A), and BreadcrumbList — three structured sources we merge into one row per product.
• /compare-products/{a}-vs-{b} is HTML-only (6 MB of editorial content; no embedded data JSON). We extract product info per slug via visible card walking — best-effort in v1.

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Input

Field	Type	Required	Notes
startUrls	string[]	yes	Any mix of product / reviews / category / compare / sitemap URLs (or bare product slugs). Auto-classified.
maxItems	integer	no	Safety cap on total dataset rows, not URLs. A reviews URL with 100 reviews emits 100 review rows; a category URL with 50 products emits 50 rows. Default 1000. Free-tier users are capped at 100.
maxReviewsPerProduct	integer	no	Max individual review rows emitted per reviews URL. TrustRadius paginates 10 per page; Slack has ~10,000 reviews across ~1,000 pages — cap aggressively. Default 100, 0 = no limit.
maxProductsPerCategory	integer	no	Max category-product rows emitted per category URL. Default 50, 0 = no limit.
maxProductsFromSitemap	integer	no	When you paste a sitemap URL, the actor discovers product URLs and scrapes the first N. Default 50.
normalizeRatings	boolean	no	Add averageNormalized (0–5 scale) alongside native 0–10. Default true.
includeReviewSections	boolean	no	Include full per-question sections[] on each review row. Adds 1–3 KB per row but captures TrustRadius's unique Q&A structure. Default true.
maxConcurrency	integer	no	Parallel HTTP requests. TrustRadius is open — concurrency up to 10 is safe. Default 5.
maxRequestRetries	integer	no	Per-URL retry budget on 5xx/network errors. Default 3.
proxy	object	no	Apify Residential US recommended.

Example input

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.trustradius.com/products/slack",
    "https://www.trustradius.com/categories/collaboration",
    "https://www.trustradius.com/compare-products/slack-vs-microsoft-teams"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxReviewsPerProduct": 30,
  "maxProductsPerCategory": 20,
  "normalizeRatings": true,
  "includeReviewSections": true,
  "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], "apifyProxyCountry": "US" }
}

That yields 52 rows on Slack: 1 product row (with 5 rich nested review snippets + LinkedIn URLs) + 30 flat review rows (paginated /reviews/all, with productAggregate nested) + 20 category-product rows + 1 compare. Use maxItems / maxReviewsPerProduct / maxProductsPerCategory to cap per-URL fan-out.

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Output schema

Four row shapes, distinguished by the rowType field: product, review, category-product, compare.

rowType: "product"

{
  "rowType":             "product",
  "productUrl":          "https://www.trustradius.com/products/slack/reviews",
  "productSlug":         "slack",
  "name":                "Slack",
  "description":         "Slack brings team communication and collaboration into one place…",
  "applicationCategory": "BusinessApplication",
  "categories":          ["Collaboration"],
  "rating": {
    "average":           9,
    "averageNormalized": 4.5,                              // 0–5 scale for cross-platform consumers
    "count":             9979,
    "bestRating":        10,
    "worstRating":       1
  },
  "vendor": {
    "name":              "Salesforce",
    "url":               "https://slack.com/…"
  },
  "offer": {
    "price":             0,
    "priceCurrency":     "USD",
    "offerUrl":          null
  },
  "awards": [
    { "title": "Buyer's Choice 2026", "year": "2026" }
  ],
  "features":            ["Task Management", "Gantt Charts", "Scheduling", /* +20 more */],
  "reviewSnippets":      [ /* up to 5 fully-structured reviews from JSON-LD */ ],
  "breadcrumbs":         [ /* ... */ ],
  "scrapedAt":           "2026-05-12T17:36:00.000Z"
}

rowType: "review" (one per individual review)

{
  "rowType":             "review",
  "reviewsUrl":          "https://www.trustradius.com/products/slack/reviews/all",
  "productSlug":         "slack",
  "productName":         "Slack",

  "reviewId":            null,                              // TrustRadius doesn't surface stable IDs on /reviews/all
  "title":               "Slack Review",
  "reviewUrl":           "https://www.trustradius.com/products/slack/reviews",

  "rating": {
    "average":           10,                                // native 0–10
    "averageNormalized": 5,                                 // 0–5 normalized
    "count":             1,
    "bestRating":        10,
    "worstRating":       1
  },

  "text":                "So we use it for daily collaboration, just notifications…",
  "pros":                null,
  "cons":                null,
  "publishedAt":         "2026-05-12T01:30:29.251Z",        // ISO 8601 — cleaner than Capterra's "May 31, 2024"

  // Reviewer firmographics — RICHER than Capterra (companyName + department + LinkedIn URL)
  "reviewer": {
    "name":              "Sapna Nayak",
    "firstName":         "Sapna",
    "lastName":          "Nayak",
    "jobTitle":          "Senior Salesforce Administrator",
    "jobType":           "Administrator",
    "companyName":       "Side",                            // ← Capterra doesn't surface company NAME
    "companySize":       "51-200 employees",
    "department":        "Other",                           // ← richer than Capterra
    "industry":          null,
    "profileUrl":        null,
    "profilePicUrl":     "https://media.trustradius.com/profile-photos/…jpeg",   // when available
    "linkedInUrl":       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sapna-nayak-…",            // ← UNIQUE to TrustRadius
    "linkedInVerified":  null
  },

  // Per-question Q&A — UNIQUE to TrustRadius
  "sections": [
    {
      "title":     "Use Cases and Deployment Scope",
      "responses": [
        {
          "question": "Use Cases and Deployment Scope",
          "answer":   "So we use it for daily collaboration, just notifications for different things…"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title":     "Pros",
      "responses": [{ "question": "Pros", "answer": "Real-time messaging | File sharing | Channel organization" }]
    },
    {
      "title":     "Cons",
      "responses": [{ "question": "Cons", "answer": "Search can be slow for large workspaces" }]
    }
    /* + more sections per review */
  ],

  "incentive":           null,                              // "Incentivized" when TrustRadius flags it
  "source":              "TrustRadius",
  "trusted":             null,

  // Thread-level aggregate (same on every review row from the same reviews URL)
  "productAggregate": {
    "rating":                { "average": 9, "averageNormalized": 4.5, "count": 9980, "bestRating": 10, "worstRating": 1 },
    "awards":                [{ "title": "Buyer's Choice 2026", "year": "2026" }],
    "features":              ["Task Management", "Gantt Charts", /* +21 */],
    "vendor":                { "name": "Salesforce", "url": "https://slack.com/…" },
    "totalReviewsEmitted":   30,
    "pagesScraped":          3
  },

  "scrapedAt":           "2026-05-12T17:36:00.000Z"
}

rowType: "category-product" (one per product in the category)

{
  "rowType":             "category-product",
  "categoryUrl":         "https://www.trustradius.com/categories/collaboration",
  "categorySlug":        "collaboration",

  "productSlug":         "slack",
  "productUrl":          "https://www.trustradius.com/products/slack",
  "name":                "Slack",
  "description":         "Slack brings team communication into one place…",
  "rating":              { "average": 9, "averageNormalized": 4.5, "count": null, "bestRating": 10, "worstRating": 1 },
  "vendor":              { "name": "Salesforce", "url": "…" },
  "logoUrl":             "https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/…png",
  "sponsored":           null,

  "categoryAggregate": {
    "categoryUrl":         "https://www.trustradius.com/categories/collaboration",
    "categorySlug":        "collaboration",
    "categoryName":        "Collaboration Tools",
    "description":         "Collaboration tools help teams work together…",
    "totalProductsOnPage": 25,
    "faqs": [                                              // ← TrustRadius ships editorial Q&A as JSON-LD FAQPage
      { "question": "What is collaboration software?", "answer": "…" },
      { "question": "How much does it cost?",          "answer": "…" }
    ],
    "relatedCategories":   [{ "name": "Web Conferencing", "url": "…" }, /* +29 */]
  },

  "scrapedAt":           "2026-05-12T17:36:00.000Z"
}

rowType: "compare"

{
  "rowType":   "compare",
  "compareUrl": "https://www.trustradius.com/compare-products/slack-vs-microsoft-teams",
  "title":      "Microsoft Teams vs Slack",
  "products": [
    {
      "productSlug": "slack",
      "productUrl":  "https://www.trustradius.com/products/slack",
      "name":        "Slack",
      "rating":      { "average": 9, "averageNormalized": 4.5, /* … */ },
      "vendor":      null,
      "logoUrl":     "https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/…png"
    },
    {
      "productSlug": "microsoft-teams",
      "productUrl":  "https://www.trustradius.com/products/microsoft-teams",
      "name":        "Microsoft Teams",
      "rating":      { "average": 8.6, "averageNormalized": 4.3, /* … */ },
      /* … */
    }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-12T17:36:00.000Z"
}

Compare row is best-effort in v1.0. TrustRadius compare pages are HTML-rendered editorial articles (no embedded JSON data block). We DOM-walk the visible cards per slug — good for slug + name + rating + logo, but vendor info may be partial. For full data, scrape each product separately.

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Pricing

Pay-per-event. Reviews and category-products are billed flat — each is its own dataset row, one outputrecord event per row. Cost = rows × outputrecord-price. No nested-array arithmetic.

Event	When	Suggested rate
outputrecord	Once per dataset row pushed — product, review, category-product, compare. Thread/category aggregate is nested INSIDE each flat row.	configured on the actor page
additional-data	Once per nested item inside a product / compare row only (features, awards, review snippets, breadcrumb categories, compared products). Reviews and category-products are never billed here.	$0.75 per 1,000 items ($0.00075 each)

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What makes this richer than the competition

We surveyed all 16 TrustRadius actors on Apify Store (May 2026). The top specialist (zen-studio/trustradius-review-scraper, 25 users) covers reviews only. Same gap we filled for Capterra.

Capability	Competitor actors	This actor
Product + reviews + category + compare in one actor	❌ (reviews-only is the norm)	✅
Sitemap-driven bulk discovery	❌	✅
URL auto-classification (paste any mix)	❌	✅
Per-question sections[] Q&A captured on every review	partial (1 actor mentions Q&A, partial coverage)	✅
Reviewer LinkedIn URL	❌	✅
Reviewer company name (not just size)	❌	✅
Reviewer department	❌	✅
Dual 0–10 native + 0–5 normalized ratings	❌	✅
Capterra-style awards (Buyer's Choice etc.)	❌	✅
Category FAQ extraction (from JSON-LD FAQPage)	❌	✅
Flat-per-review billing (1 review = 1 paid row)	mixed	✅

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Notes & limitations

• TrustRadius is open — no Cloudflare, no warmup needed. Apify Residential US works first-attempt at 100%.
• Reviews pagination auto-walks /reviews/all?page=N until empty or maxReviewsPerProduct hits. Slack has ~10,000 reviews across ~1,000 pages — set caps appropriately.
• Compare extraction is best-effort in v1.0 — TrustRadius compare pages ship as HTML-only editorial. v1.1 will follow per-product fetches for richer compare rows (same pattern that worked on Capterra).
• reviewer.profilePicUrl / linkedInUrl data-source notes. These fields are surfaced on the product page (/products/{slug}/reviews) — the 5 reviews shipped via JSON-LD + RSC carry full reviewer.user blocks (profile pic + LinkedIn URL + verification flag). On the paginated /products/{slug}/reviews/all?page=N, TrustRadius ships a slimmer payload that does not include these fields — reviewer firmographics (name, company, jobTitle, department, companySize) are still 100%-filled, but profile pic + LinkedIn URLs come back null. If you need full reviewer enrichment, prefer the /reviews URL over /reviews/all.
• Sitemap mode is conservative — only walks maxProductsFromSitemap URLs to avoid runaway costs. Buyers wanting full-catalog scrapes should run multiple sitemap calls with maxItems set high.

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Support

Issues, feature requests, or custom output shapes? Open a ticket on the actor's Apify page or message the maintainer.