🔍 Yelp Business Scraper — Emails, Phones, Reviews & Local Lead Data

Bulk-scrape Yelp business pages — name, address, phone, email, website, category, rating, review count, hours. The pay-per-result alternative to the Yelp Fusion API (rate-limited), Yext, Birdeye, and Reputation.com.

Why This Scraper Beats Yelp Fusion, Yext, Birdeye & Reputation.com

Feature	NexGenData Yelp Scraper	Yelp Fusion API	Yext	Birdeye	Reputation.com
Cost	$5 per 1,000 businesses	Free (500/day cap, then locked)	$4,000–$30,000 / year	$3,000+ / year	$$$$ enterprise
Rate limits	Apify-managed, scales horizontally	500 / day per app	Internal	Internal	Internal
Bulk export	Unlimited CSV / JSON / Excel	Per-call only	Yes (paid)	Yes (paid)	Yes
Contact data	Email + phone + website	Phone only (no email)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Time to start	<60 seconds	API key approval	Sales cycle	Sales cycle	Sales cycle
Search filters	Keyword, location, radius, category	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

The Yelp Fusion API is fine for hobby projects until you hit the 500-call cap. After that you need this actor.

What You Get

• Business name + Yelp business URL
• Full address (street, city, state, ZIP, country)
• Phone number
• Email address (when shown on Yelp profile or linked site)
• Website URL
• Primary + secondary categories
• Star rating + total review count
• Price range ($/$$/$$$/$$$$)
• Hours of operation
• Sample reviews (top N)
• Photos URLs

Use Cases

• Cold outreach — pull every plumber in Phoenix, enrich with email, drop into your CRM
• Local SEO agencies — audit 1,000 businesses' Yelp profiles before pitching
• Franchise expansion — find under-rated competitors in target markets
• Restaurant tech sales — list every restaurant by city for POS / loyalty pitches
• Review monitoring — bulk-snapshot competitor ratings weekly
• Directory builders — power a niche local directory with Yelp's catalog
• M&A scouting — identify high-rated SMBs in fragmented markets

Quick Start

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("nexgendata/yelp-business-scraper").call(run_input={
    "search_terms": ["plumber"],
    "location": "Phoenix, AZ",
    "maxItems": 1000
})
for biz in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(biz["name"], biz.get("phone"), biz.get("email"))

Pricing

Pay-per-event — only pay for businesses you extract.

• Actor Start: $0.00005 per GB
• Result (business): $0.005 per item

1,000 businesses = $5. The same data via Yelp Fusion requires 2 days of throttled calls (or an enterprise contract).

Related NexGenData Actors

Use case	Actor
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AI-callable maps tools for LLM agents	Google Maps MCP Server
B2B leads by industry + size + geo	B2B Leads Finder
Enrich your existing lead list	Lead List Enricher
Find professional emails for a domain	Company Email Finder
Extract emails from any website	Website Email Extractor
Pull contact info from any business page	Contact Info Scraper
Firmographic enrichment for any company	Company Enrichment Tool

FAQ

Q: Is email included for every business? Email is pulled from the Yelp profile or the linked external site where available — typical hit rate is 25–55% depending on category.

Q: How fresh is the data? Pulled live each run. No daily-cache deception.

Q: Output formats? JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel, RSS, XML — Apify dataset standard.

Q: Rate limits? Managed by Apify proxy rotation. You don't configure anything.

Q: Can I run hundreds of city × category combos in one job? Yes — pass arrays of search_terms and locations and the actor fans out.

Q: Is this allowed? Yelp content is publicly viewable. You assume responsibility for downstream use; many users build internal lead lists, which is broadly accepted practice.

Q: Why not the Yelp Fusion API? 500 calls/day cap, no email field, no bulk export — fine for a hobby app, not for outbound.

About NexGenData

NexGenData publishes 260+ buyer-intent actors covering SEC filings, YC alumni, real-estate, lead generation, competitive intelligence, stock fundamentals across 30+ exchanges, and MCP servers for AI agents. All pay-per-result. Browse the full catalog at https://apify.com/nexgendata?fpr=2ayu9b

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How NexGenData Pricing Works

Every NexGenData actor uses pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for results that actually land in your dataset. No monthly minimum, no seat fees, no surprise overage bills.

• Actor Start: a single-event charge each time you spin the actor up (scaled to memory size)
• Result: charged per item written to the default dataset
• No charge for retries, internal proxy rotation, or failed sub-requests — those are absorbed by the platform

If you only need the data once a quarter, you only pay once a quarter. If you scale to millions of records, the unit cost stays the same.

Apify Platform Bonus

New to Apify? Sign up with the NexGenData referral link — you get free platform credits on signup (enough for several thousand free results) and you help fund the maintenance of this actor fleet.

Integration Surface

Every actor in the NexGenData catalog can be triggered from:

• Apify console — point-and-click run
• Apify API — REST + webhooks
• Apify Python / JS SDKs — programmatic batch
• Zapier, Make.com, n8n — official integrations
• MCP — many actors are exposed as MCP tools for Claude / ChatGPT / Cursor agents
• Schedules — built-in cron for daily / weekly / monthly runs
• Webhooks — POST results to any HTTPS endpoint on dataset write

Support

NexGenData maintains 260+ Apify actors and ships updates regularly. Bug reports via the Apify console issues tab get a response within 24 hours. Roadmap requests are welcome — high-demand features ship in the next version.

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