# 🚀 OpenCritic Reviews Scraper · 5,000 Free Reviews/Month (`omkar-cloud/opencritic-reviews-scraper`) Actor

OpenCritic Reviews Scraper gets you critic reviews ⚡ fast, 🎯 100% accurate and 🔍 ridiculously detailed — score, outlet, critic, snippet & link by game, outlet or critic. 💰 $1 per 1,000 reviews, no start fee. Scrape your first 5,000 reviews free every month 🚀

- **URL**: https://apify.com/omkar-cloud/opencritic-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Omkar Cloud](https://apify.com/omkar-cloud) (community)
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 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.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## OpenCritic Reviews Scraper

OpenCritic Reviews Scraper by Omkar Cloud gets you 🎯 accurate, 🔍 detailed OpenCritic critic reviews.

OpenCritic tracks what the top critics say about every game, and every run reads it live — so you get every review of a game, every review an outlet published or every review a critic wrote, with the score, outlet, critic, snippet and link, one row per review, and can successfully complete your project.

**$1 per 1,000 reviews.** And with Apify's free plan you get $5 of credit every month, so your first **5,000 reviews each month are free**.

This is an excellent Actor made by Omkar Cloud, which is Rated Excellent — [4.7 based on 37 reviews on Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/omkar.cloud).

👉 [**Try OpenCritic Reviews Scraper free**](https://apify.com/omkar-cloud/opencritic-reviews-scraper) — your first 5,000 reviews are Free.

### What can I get

- 📝 **Every critic review of a game** — the whole set in one run, from IGN, GameSpot, Eurogamer, PC Gamer and 800+ more outlets
- 🗞️ **Every review an outlet or a critic wrote** — by id, link or name, like `IGN` or `Jeff Gerstmann`
- 🎯 **The score, both ways** — OpenCritic's 0-100 score and the outlet's own scale (4.5 stars, 9/10), plus recommended or not and the median at review time
- 🧑‍💻 **Who, where and when** — critic with profile link, outlet, language, platform reviewed on, published date, snippet and the link to the full review
- 🎮 **Player reviews too** — each game's user reviews with score, recommendation and excerpt, tagged `review_type: user`

### Why OpenCritic Reviews Scraper

Most other OpenCritic scrapers fail you in one of four ways:

- 🧩 **No reviews at all** — they return a game's aggregate score, never the individual reviews behind it
- 🔗 **One game at a time** — no reviews by outlet, no reviews by critic, no name search
- 💸 **Pay 5× to 21× more** — $5 to $21 per 1,000 rows, often plus a start fee on every run
- 🪦 **Works today, breaks next month** — nobody maintains it

OpenCritic Reviews Scraper is read live on every run, priced honestly with no start fee, and actively maintained.

### Input

| Field                                      | What it does                                                                                                              |
| ------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Games**                                  | OpenCritic game ids (`12090`), opencritic.com game links, or names (`Baldur's Gate 3`) — every critic review of each game |
| **Outlets**                                | Outlet ids (`56`), links, or names (`IGN`) — every review the outlet published                                            |
| **Critics**                                | Critic ids (`663`), links, or names (`Jeff Gerstmann`) — every review the critic wrote                                    |
| **Sort Reviews**                           | Newest, oldest, highest or lowest score, outlet popularity, or blend. Empty = the site's default                          |
| **Order**                                  | Ascending or descending                                                                                                   |
| **Include User Reviews**                   | Adds each game's player reviews, tagged `review_type: user` — same price                                                  |
| **Max Reviews per Game / Outlet / Critic** | Reviews to collect from each source                                                                                       |
| **Max Reviews**                            | Cost control for the whole run — 1,000 reviews = $1                                                                       |

### Example: A Critic Review

```json
{
    "review_type": "critic",
    "id": "62164e1c9e5c48c548d89037",
    "link": "https://www.ign.com/articles/elden-ring-review",
    "snippet": "Elden Ring is a massive iteration on what FromSoftware began with the Souls series, bringing its relentlessly challenging combat to an incredible open world that gives us the freedom to choose our own path.",
    "language": "en-us",
    "published_at": "2022-02-23",
    "score": 100,
    "outlet_score": 10,
    "normalized_score": 100,
    "has_verdict": true,
    "score_format": {
        "name": "0 to 10 incl decimals",
        "base": 10
    },
    "authors": [
        {
            "id": 621,
            "name": "Mitchell Saltzman",
            "link": "https://opencritic.com/critic/621/mitchell-saltzman"
        }
    ],
    "outlet": {
        "id": 56,
        "name": "IGN",
        "link": "https://opencritic.com/outlet/56/ign"
    },
    "game": {
        "id": 12090,
        "name": "Elden Ring",
        "link": "https://opencritic.com/game/12090/elden-ring"
    },
    "source_input": "Elden Ring",
    "source_kind": "game",
    "source_id": 12090,
    "source_name": "Elden Ring"
}
```

*Trimmed for readability — every row also carries the platforms reviewed on, the median score at review time and whether it is a video review.*

### Get Started with 5,000 Free Reviews

1. [Open OpenCritic Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/omkar-cloud/opencritic-reviews-scraper) — the form comes pre-filled with Elden Ring.
2. Add your own games, outlets or critics and click **Start**.
3. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel 😎.

### Pricing

**$1 per 1,000 reviews. No start fee.** You pay for the rows you get, nothing else.

| What you scrape                                                              | Price                                |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ |
| Review row — critic or user review with score, outlet, critic, snippet, link | **$0.001** each — $1 per 1,000       |
| Actor start                                                                  | **$0** — most competitors charge one |

Apify's free plan gives you $5 of credit every month, so **5,000 reviews are free every month**. A review reached twice in one run — through its game and its outlet — is scraped and billed only once.

### Run It from Code

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

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('omkar-cloud/opencritic-reviews-scraper').call({
    games: ['Elden Ring', "Baldur's Gate 3"],
    includeUserReviews: true,
    maxReviewsPerSource: 300,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);
```

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("omkar-cloud/opencritic-reviews-scraper").call(run_input={
    "outlets": ["IGN", "GameSpot"],
    "sort": "newest",
    "maxReviewsPerSource": 200,
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["game"]["name"], item["outlet"]["name"], item["score"])
```

### FAQ

**Which reviews can I scrape?**
Every critic review OpenCritic tracks — by game, by outlet or by critic — plus each game's player reviews.

**What does a run cost?**
$1 per 1,000 reviews and no start fee. Set **Max Reviews** to cap any run.

**How fresh is the data?**
It is read live from OpenCritic on every run.

**Why is a score `null`?**
Some outlets publish reviews without a verdict — those rows carry `has_verdict: false` and a `null` score, so they never skew your averages.

**Can I get the game scores too?**
Yes — [OpenCritic Scraper](https://apify.com/omkar-cloud/opencritic-scraper) gets every game's Top Critic Score, tier and details at $1 per 1,000.

**Do I need proxies or an OpenCritic account?**
No. The Actor handles everything.

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# Actor input Schema

## `games` (type: `array`):

Every critic review of these games. OpenCritic game ids like `12090` (Elden Ring), opencritic.com game links, or names like `Baldur's Gate 3` (the best match is used).

## `outlets` (type: `array`):

Every review these publications wrote. Outlet ids like `56` (IGN), opencritic.com outlet links, or names like `GameSpot`.

## `critics` (type: `array`):

Every review these critics wrote. Critic ids like `663` (Jeff Gerstmann), opencritic.com critic links, or names.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Review order. Empty = the site's default (every review of a game in one call; newest first for outlets and critics).

## `order` (type: `string`):

Sort direction. Empty = the sort's default.

## `includeUserReviews` (type: `boolean`):

Also add the player reviews of each game (score, recommendation, excerpt), tagged `review_type: user`. Same price per review.

## `maxReviewsPerSource` (type: `integer`):

Reviews to collect from each game, outlet or critic.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of review rows for the whole run. Use this to control your cost (1,000 reviews = $1).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "games": [
    "12090"
  ],
  "outlets": [],
  "critics": [],
  "sort": "",
  "order": "",
  "includeUserReviews": false,
  "maxReviewsPerSource": 100,
  "maxResults": 1000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "games": [
        "12090"
    ],
    "outlets": [],
    "critics": [],
    "maxReviewsPerSource": 100,
    "maxResults": 1000
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("omkar-cloud/opencritic-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 = {
    "games": ["12090"],
    "outlets": [],
    "critics": [],
    "maxReviewsPerSource": 100,
    "maxResults": 1000,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("omkar-cloud/opencritic-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 '{
  "games": [
    "12090"
  ],
  "outlets": [],
  "critics": [],
  "maxReviewsPerSource": 100,
  "maxResults": 1000
}' |
apify call omkar-cloud/opencritic-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,omkar-cloud/opencritic-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/aT4aXd1KvzjP0jbmK/builds/9o8LXUuOOhDJdtzGt/openapi.json