Yelp Reviews Scraper

⭐ What is Yelp Reviews Scraper?

Yelp Reviews Scraper extracts reviews from Yelp: star rating, full text, date, owner reply, photos and videos, Yelp's translation, earlier versions of an edited review, and the reviewer's public profile, for any business, from a business link, a business id or a Yelp search by keyword and location. It can also return businesses only, with their full details: phone, website, address, GPS, hours, amenities, health inspections, popular dishes, e-mails and social media links. It works as a Yelp API alternative: run it on a schedule, call it from your code, or plug it into Make, Zapier or n8n.

Paste a business link (https://www.yelp.com/biz/golden-boy-pizza-san-francisco) or type a keyword and a location (pizza in San Francisco, CA), click Start, and download the reviews in JSON, CSV or Excel. No login, nothing to set up, and it is fast: about 100 reviews in 15 seconds, 1,000 in under 2 minutes. Every Yelp country works: yelp.com, yelp.co.uk, yelp.fr, yelp.ca, yelp.de and the others.

📋 What data can you extract from Yelp?

One item per review (or per business with Scrape reviews off), 50 fields:

Category	What you get
⭐ Review	stars 1-5, full text, language, Yelp's translation into the language you choose
🕒 Dates	publication date (UTC and the business's local time), date of the experience when given
✏️ Edited reviews	the earlier versions of a review its author updated: their text, stars and date
📸 Media	photos (full size, with caption) and videos posted with the review
💬 Owner reply	the business's public answer, its date, the name and role of who wrote it
👍 Reactions and badges	Helpful, Thanks, Love this, Oh no counts; check-ins, first review, Review of the Day, expert badge; paid through Yelp, deal, reservation
👤 Reviewer	display name, location, profile link, photo, number of reviews, friends and photos, Elite years (can be turned off)
🏢 Business	name, link, overall rating, number of reviews, reviews per star and per language, categories, city, region, neighborhoods, main photo
📇 Full business details (option)	phone, website, address, GPS, price range, opening hours and time zone, open now, closed, claimed, Yelp summary, year established, history, specialties, owner, about 30 amenities, health inspections, popular dishes, review highlights, menu link, service areas, licenses, consumer alerts, messaging response time, questions and answers, logo, chain, Yelp Guaranteed, advertiser
🖼️ Business photos (option)	the business's photo gallery, full size, with captions
✉️ E-mails and social media (option)	e-mail addresses published on the business's own website, and its Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn and Pinterest pages
🔎 Search	the keyword and location that found the business, and its rank in Yelp's results

Every field, with an example, is listed in the Output section below.

✅ Why use Yelp Reviews Scraper?

• 🚀 Fast: about 100 reviews in 15 seconds, 1,000 in under 2 minutes; a business with its full details, gallery page and e-mails in a few seconds more.
• 🧭 Reviews from a link, an id or a search: type dentist and several cities or ZIP codes, and the Actor finds the businesses, then reads their reviews. Each search merges Yelp's three orders (recommended, highest rated, most reviewed) for up to 75 different businesses per keyword and location.
• 🎯 Every filter in one place: stars (several at once), date range (from and to), review languages, words to include or exclude, only reviews with an owner reply or with photos; and on the business: minimum rating, minimum number of reviews, price range, open now, phone or website shown, required amenities.
• ✏️ Edited reviews kept: when a reviewer updates a review, you also get the earlier versions.
• 🌍 Free translation: Yelp's own translation of each review, next to the original text.
• 🔔 Monitoring built in: tick Only new reviews, schedule the Actor, and each run returns (and charges) only the reviews it has never delivered before.
• 📇 Lead lists too: turn Scrape reviews off for one row per business with its full details, and add the e-mails and social media links found on its website.
• 🔌 API, scheduling, monitoring, integrations (Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets…) and JSON/CSV/Excel export via the Apify platform.

🚀 How to scrape Yelp reviews

1. Create a free Apify account.
2. Open Yelp Reviews Scraper and paste one or more Yelp business links into Yelp URLs — or type a Search keyword and a Location to find the businesses.
3. Pick the Review order and any filters (stars, dates, languages, keywords…).
4. Set Max results (100 by default, 0 = no limit) — and Max reviews per business when you read several businesses — then click Start.
5. Download the dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel or via API.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape Yelp reviews?

This Actor uses pay per event pricing — see the Pricing tab. You pay for the rows saved, and for the options only when you turn them on. Prices per 1,000 events, by Apify plan:

What you pay for	Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold and above
A review saved	review	$0.045	$0.044	$0.036	$0.035
A business saved, with its full details (Scrape reviews off)	business	$0.45	$0.44	$0.43	$0.42
Full business details added to the reviews of a business, once per business (Add full business details)	business-details	$0.45	$0.44	$0.43	$0.42
A page of up to 30 business photos (Business photos per business)	photo-page	$0.89	$0.86	$0.81	$0.77
A business whose website shows at least one e-mail address (Find e-mails on business websites)	email-enriched	$2.69	$2.68	$2.67	$2.66
A review or a business read, then dropped by one of the Actor's own filters	filter-check	$0.054	$0.044	$0.034	$0.024

Each run also costs $0.01 per run start (apify-actor-start). Example: 10,000 reviews on the Gold plan = 10 × $0.035 + $0.01 = $0.36.

The star filter is applied by Yelp itself: the reviews it leaves out are never read and never charged. Social media links come with the e-mail option at no extra charge, and the translation is free. Platform usage (compute, proxy) is included in the price.

⚙️ Input

Reviews of one business, newest first:

{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/golden-boy-pizza-san-francisco" }],
    "sortBy": "newest",
    "maxItems": 200
}

A search in several places, 50 reviews per business, only the bad recent ones in English:

{
    "query": "pizza",
    "locations": ["San Francisco, CA", "94133"],
    "maxBusinessesPerSearch": 20,
    "maxItemsPerQuery": 50,
    "starRatings": ["1", "2"],
    "postedAfter": "6 months",
    "reviewLanguages": ["en"],
    "maxItems": 2000
}

Businesses only, with their details, e-mails and social media links (a lead list):

{
    "query": "plumbers",
    "location": "Austin, TX",
    "includeReviews": false,
    "requirePhone": true,
    "requireWebsite": true,
    "enrichEmails": true,
    "maxItems": 100
}

Daily monitoring of a few businesses:

{
    "businessIds": ["PTFxtXS47ZVRCdZIrEWvGw", "golden-boy-pizza-san-francisco"],
    "onlyNew": true,
    "stateKey": "my-restaurants",
    "maxItems": 0
}

Field	Notes
startUrls	Yelp business pages of any country (https://www.yelp.com/biz/golden-boy-pizza-san-francisco, https://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/dishoom-london), or Yelp search pages (https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=pizza&find_loc=San+Francisco: keyword and location are read from the link). Max 1,000.
businessIds	Yelp business ids (PTFxtXS47ZVRCdZIrEWvGw) or aliases, the last part of a business link (golden-boy-pizza-san-francisco).
query, searchQueries	What to search on Yelp, as typed in its search box (pizza, plumber, dentist); searchQueries adds more keywords. Needs a location.
location, locations	City, neighborhood or ZIP code (San Francisco, CA, 94133, London); locations adds more places. Every keyword is searched in every location (max 500 searches per run).
latitude, longitude	Also search around this GPS point.
searchSortBy	Yelp gives at most 25 businesses per search and order: all merges recommended, highest rated and most reviewed (up to 75 businesses); or recommended, highest_rated, most_reviewed.
maxBusinessesPerSearch	Businesses kept from each search, in Yelp's order (0 = all, up to 75).
includeReviews	Off = one row per business with its full details, and no review.
maxItems, maxItemsPerQuery	Results for the whole run (0 = no limit), and the cap for each business (with includeReviews off: businesses per search).
sortBy	newest (default), oldest, relevance, highest_rating, lowest_rating or elites (Elite reviewers first).
translateTo	Two-letter language code (en, fr, es): Yelp's translation lands in translatedText, the original is kept.
includeReviewerDetails	Reviewer's public profile (default on); off = the reviewer column is null.
includeBusinessDetails	Adds the business's full details to each of its reviews, charged once per business.
maxBusinessPhotos	Photos of the business gallery per business (0 = none), read 30 per page.
enrichEmails	Visits each business's own website (up to 3 pages) for its e-mail addresses and social media links.
starRatings	Only these stars (5, 4, 3, 2, 1; several allowed), applied by Yelp: never charged.
postedAfter, postedBefore	Review date range: 2026-09-01, or a period before now (7 days, 2 weeks, 6 months, 24 hours).
reviewLanguages	Only reviews written in these languages (en, es, fr).
keywords, excludeKeywords	Keep the reviews whose text contains one of these words (parking), or drop them (delivery); whole words, case and accents ignored. The words are looked for in the review as its author wrote it, never in its translation.
withResponseOnly, withPhotosOnly	Only the reviews with an owner reply, or with photos or videos.
minRating, minReviewCount	Skip the businesses rated below this, or with fewer reviews on Yelp.
requirePhone, requireWebsite, openNow	Only the businesses that show a phone number, a website, or that are open at the time of the run.
priceLevels	Only these price ranges ($, $$, $$$, $$$$); a business with no price range is skipped.
features	Only the businesses that show ALL these amenities, as written on Yelp (Outdoor seating, Offers delivery, Wheelchair accessible).
onlyNew, stateKey, resetState	Monitoring: only the reviews never delivered under this memory key; resetState forgets the memory.
Advanced	proxyConfiguration (Apify proxy by default, included in the price; the residential proxy is not available), maxConcurrency, maxRequestsPerMinute, minRequestIntervalMs, maxRequestRetries, debugLog.

📦 Output

One real row, shortened (most of details and the gallery cut; a row has all 50 fields):

{
    "type": "review",
    "id": "hHOfwEDJ7SzGkQo9RO518Q",
    "url": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/golden-boy-pizza-san-francisco?hrid=hHOfwEDJ7SzGkQo9RO518Q",
    "rating": 4,
    "text": "Yummy pizza and great price! Pizza came out fast, the crust was crispy to perfection, and the line moves quick with great vibes! We also tried a combo pizza which was my favorite",
    "language": "en",
    "translatedText": "Délicieuse pizza à un prix imbattable ! La pizza est arrivée rapidement, la croûte était croustillante à souhait et l'attente était courte et l'ambiance super ! On a aussi testé la pizza combo, mon coup de cœur !",
    "translatedLanguage": "fr",
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-02T14:32:10.000Z",
    "publishedAtLocal": "2026-10-02T07:32:10-07:00",
    "isUpdated": false,
    "previousReviews": [],
    "reactions": {
        "helpful": 0,
        "thanks": 0,
        "loveThis": 0,
        "ohNo": 0
    },
    "photos": [
        {
            "id": "HNvJP9RBhO6tkkxHe2_nLg",
            "url": "https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/HNvJP9RBhO6tkkxHe2_nLg/o.jpg",
            "caption": "Pepperoni slice and sausage slice",
            "width": 1500,
            "height": 2000
        }
    ],
    "ownerResponse": null,
    "reviewer": {
        "name": "Sara T.",
        "location": "Nashua, NH",
        "profileUrl": "https://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=e7iyuWtqR4Of8lDpbtUC1Q",
        "reviewCount": 3,
        "isElite": false
    },
    "businessId": "PTFxtXS47ZVRCdZIrEWvGw",
    "businessName": "Golden Boy Pizza",
    "businessUrl": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/golden-boy-pizza-san-francisco",
    "businessRating": 4.3,
    "businessReviewCount": 4871,
    "ratingDistribution": {
        "1": 114,
        "2": 159,
        "3": 435,
        "4": 1392,
        "5": 2772
    },
    "businessCategories": [
        {
            "title": "Pizza",
            "alias": null,
            "rootAlias": "restaurants"
        }
    ],
    "businessCity": "San Francisco",
    "details": {
        "phone": "(415) 982-9738",
        "website": "http://www.goldenboypizza.com",
        "address": {
            "addressLine1": "542 Green St",
            "addressLine2": null,
            "addressLine3": null,
            "city": "San Francisco",
            "state": "CA",
            "postalCode": "94133",
            "country": "US",
            "formatted": "542 Green St, San Francisco, CA 94133"
        },
        "latitude": 37.7997956,
        "longitude": -122.4080729,
        "priceRange": "$",
        "isClaimed": true,
        "summary": "A walk-up window pizza spot with standout clam slices.",
        "yearEstablished": "1978",
        "amenities": [
            {
                "label": "Offers delivery",
                "active": true
            },
            {
                "label": "Offers take-out",
                "active": true
            }
        ]
    },
    "businessPhotos": [
        {
            "id": "LzMZYAathPmoqKgXfx2iOg",
            "url": "https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/LzMZYAathPmoqKgXfx2iOg/o.jpg",
            "caption": "Pesto Veggie and Combo slices"
        },
        {
            "id": "I3bJGcauLtqgvqcxicD-RQ",
            "url": "https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/I3bJGcauLtqgvqcxicD-RQ/o.jpg",
            "caption": "Menu"
        }
    ],
    "emails": null,
    "socialLinks": null,
    "sourceInput": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/golden-boy-pizza-san-francisco",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-07T18:01:51.941Z"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV or Excel.

All 50 fields

Fields	What you get
type, id, url	review (or business with Scrape reviews off), the review id, the link to the review on Yelp
reviewId, rating, text, language	Review: id, stars 1-5, full text, language detected by Yelp (en)
translatedText, translatedLanguage	Yelp's translation (with translateTo); null when the review is already in that language
publishedAt, publishedAtLocal, experienceDate	Dates: ISO UTC, the same in the business's time zone, the date of the experience when given
isUpdated, previousReviews	Edited reviews: true when updated, and the earlier versions (text, stars, date), newest first
reactions	Helpful, Thanks, Love this and Oh no counts
photos, videos	Media: full-size photos with caption, videos with thumbnail
ownerResponse	Owner reply: text, date, name and role of who wrote it
checkInCount, isFirstReviewer, isReviewOfTheDay, expertRecognition	check-ins, first review of the business, Review of the Day, expert badge
paidThroughYelp, purchasedDeal, placedReservation, reservationProvider	paid through Yelp, bought a deal, booked a table and through whom
reviewer	Reviewer: id, name, location, profile link, photo, reviews, friends, photos, Elite year (null with includeReviewerDetails off)
businessId, businessAlias, businessName, businessUrl	Business: id, alias, name, link
businessRating, businessReviewCount, ratingDistribution, reviewsByLanguage	overall rating, number of recommended reviews, reviews per star and per language
businessCategories, businessCity, businessRegion, businessNeighborhoods, businessPhotoUrl	categories, city, state or region, neighborhoods, main photo
details	Full business details: about 45 fields (phone, website, address, GPS, hours, amenities, health inspections, popular dishes, owner, licenses, questions and answers…); null when the option is off, always filled for a business row
businessPhotos	Business photos: id, full-size link, caption; filled on the first row of each business
emails, emailSource, socialLinks	E-mails and social media: addresses found on the business's website, the page of the first one, links to its social media pages (one per account, up to 20); null when the option is off, [], null and [] when the website shows none
searchQuery, searchLocation, searchRank	Search: keyword, location and rank (1 = first) of the business in the results of the search that found it; with the default Search order (all three orders), the rank counts the three result lists one after the other, each business once
sourceInput, scrapedAt	the URL, id or search of the input behind the row, ISO timestamp

💡 Tips

How to get more results

Yelp returns at most 25 businesses per search and order. Keep Search order on all three orders (up to 75 businesses per keyword and location), and split a big city into ZIP codes or neighborhoods in locations: each one is a search of its own. Every review Yelp shows on a business page can be read, with Max reviews per business at 0.

How to reduce costs

The price is per review saved, so the levers are maxItems, maxItemsPerQuery, the star filter (applied by Yelp, free) and onlyNew for recurring runs (you never pay twice for the same review). The other filters cost a small fee per review or business they drop, lower than a review. Full details, photos and e-mails are options, charged only when on.

Several businesses and searches in one run

Mix startUrls, businessIds and searches freely: a business reached twice is read once. Fill searchQueries and / or locations: the Actor runs one search per keyword × location (3 keywords × 4 cities = 12 searches, up to 500 per run). Set maxItemsPerQuery to give each business its own cap: without it the first business can use up the whole maxItems budget.

Monitoring: only the new reviews

Tick Only new reviews (onlyNew) and schedule the Actor. The first run returns everything; each later run skips the reviews already delivered: they are not saved and not charged. The memory lives in a named key-value store of your account (yelp-reviews-scraper-seen, up to 150,000 reviews per key) and is only updated with reviews that really reached the dataset, so a failed run never hides anything. Give each schedule its own stateKey (two schedules sharing a key would hide each other's reviews), and tick resetState once to start over. With Newest first, reading a business stops at its first review already delivered. With oldest-first sorting, each monitoring run reads the business's review pages to the end (new reviews are at the end). With Scrape reviews off, the memory holds businesses instead: only businesses never delivered are returned.

Filter by date

postedAfter and postedBefore take a date (2026-09-01, the whole day is included: the day is the one Yelp prints on the review, in the business's own time zone) or a period before now (7 days, 2 weeks, 1 month; via the API also 24 hours or a full ISO date-time, which are exact moments in UTC). With Newest first and postedAfter, reading a business stops at its first older review; with Oldest first and postedBefore, at its first newer one.

Coming from another Yelp scraper?

The input field names of the other Yelp Actors of the Store work here too (for example biz_urls, maxReviews, reviewsSort, include_personal_data, searchTerms, price, open_now): paste your old input and it runs. When one of them and our own field are both set, ours wins, and the log says so.

🔌 Integrations and API

Call the Actor via the Apify API, the JavaScript or Python clients, or connect it with integrations and webhooks (Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable…). The dataset can be fetched as JSON or CSV from any tool.

🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor…) can find and run this Actor through the Apify MCP server, billed to their Apify account like any run. It returns one item per Yelp review (or per business with includeReviews off). Actor id: nice_dev/yelp-reviews-scraper; MCP server with this Actor only: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,nice_dev/yelp-reviews-scraper.

Smallest input, for a cheap first call:

{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/golden-boy-pizza-san-francisco" }],
    "maxItems": 10
}

Key output fields: rating, text, publishedAt, ownerResponse, reviewer, businessName, businessRating and details (with includeBusinessDetails).

Cost: per review saved, plus a small fee per run start; the options are charged only when turned on — see the pricing section above and the Pricing tab. Cap each call with maxItems and, through the API, with the run option maxTotalChargeUsd.

❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Yelp?

The Actor only reads what Yelp shows publicly to any anonymous visitor. It logs in to nothing and solves no captcha. Reviews carry the reviewer's public display name (first name and initial), city and photo: this is personal data, protected by GDPR and CCPA. Turn Include reviewer details off to leave it out, and do not store it without a legitimate reason. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with Yelp's Terms of Service and applicable law. This Actor is not affiliated with Yelp.

Where do the e-mail addresses come from?

With Find e-mails on business websites on, the Actor reads the pages each business publishes on its own website (home page, contact page, legal notice) and returns the contact addresses shown there: what any visitor sees. It does not log in, guess addresses, fill contact forms or bypass any protection. Some of these addresses are personal data under GDPR (for example firstname.lastname@company.com): you are responsible for having a lawful basis before using them, for informing the people concerned and for honouring opt-outs. Rules for B2B e-mail prospecting differ by country (opt-out in some, prior consent in others).

Does it need a login or a proxy?

No login. The proxy is included in the price: leave the default setting (the residential proxy is not available). A request Yelp turns away is retried at once on a new proxy session, up to 10 times on top of the retries (without a proxy, after a pause of 5 seconds, doubled at each retry up to 150 seconds).

Is the data safe to open in Excel or to show on a web page?

Reviews and owner replies are the users' own words, copied as they are. A text can begin with -, +, = or @: Excel and Google Sheets may read such a cell of a CSV file as a formula or as a number. The Actor leaves the text as it is, so that the JSON and the API give the real value: when you open a CSV, import these columns as text. On a web page, escape every field like any text written by a stranger.

Known limitations

• Reviews Yelp does not recommend are not shown on the business page: only their number is given (details.notRecommendedReviewCount).
• A search returns at most 25 businesses per order (75 with all three); sponsored results of a search page are not returned.
• Yelp's "business highlights" badges, the booking link of a business and the date a reviewer joined Yelp are not available.
• onlyNew remembers review ids, not their content: a review edited after it was delivered is not returned again.
• Two runs sharing the same stateKey at the same time may both return the same new review.
• A business skipped by a filter is not remembered by onlyNew: its rating, prices or hours can change, so each monitoring run checks it again (and charges the filter fee again).
• E-mails: the Actor reads the business's home page and up to 2 pages it links to (contact, legal notice, about), 20 seconds at most per website, without running its JavaScript. A website behind an anti-bot wall, or one that writes its addresses with JavaScript or in an image, gives no e-mail (and no charge). Social media websites are never visited: their links are read on the business's own website.

A run that reaches its timeout stops itself about 45 seconds before it: no new page is asked, what it read is saved and, with onlyNew, remembered, and the run ends Succeeded with "Stopped before the run's timeout". Resurrect it to go on from there, or give the next run a longer timeout (Run options).

A run the platform stops without warning (out of memory)

• Resurrect it: it goes on from where it stood at most a minute before the stop. What it had read since is read again, and the reviews already saved are skipped: none is delivered or charged twice, and maxItems still counts them.
• With onlyNew, the memory is saved after each write (at most once every 2 seconds): resurrect the stopped run and the reviews it had saved meanwhile join the memory; leave it stopped for good, and the next run may return the reviews of its last 2 seconds once more.

Something doesn't work?

The last line of the log counts the reviews saved, filtered out and no longer on Yelp, and the requests that failed after every retry. Those requests are listed, with the reason, in the FAILED_REQUESTS record of the run's key-value store. A run that saved nothing and had failed requests fails, and its last message gives the cause. A business link or id that does not exist is skipped with a warning that names it.

If Yelp changes its site, you are told instead of paying for blank rows: the run stops and fails with a message that names what changed. If the first 20 reviews read all lack their stars, text, language, date, business name or — with full details — address, the run saves nothing more, stops and fails, and its last message names the missing field: at most those first reviews are charged. A review that postedAfter / postedBefore drops because it has no date at all counts among those 20. A run of fewer reviews (a scheduled onlyNew run that finds a few new ones, a small Max results) is checked at its end, from 5 reviews: its reviews are already saved, and the run fails with the missing field instead of ending green.

🛟 Support

Open an issue in the Issues tab with a link to your run: the run log and the FAILED_REQUESTS record of the key-value store show exactly which businesses failed and why.