# Klook Reviews Scraper — Activity Reviews & Ratings (`parsing_machine/klook-reviews-scraper`) Actor

WIP: cloud transport-discovery probe, not the final actor yet.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parsing\_machine/klook-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Iakov Iudin](https://apify.com/parsing_machine) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Klook Reviews Scraper — Activity Reviews & Ratings (DRAFT, BLOCKED)

**Status: BLOCKED — see `ACCESS_PROBE.md`.** klook.com fronts its activity
pages with a DataDome CAPTCHA challenge that curl\_cffi, Camoufox, and — on
the issue #82 retry — patchright + real Chrome + Xvfb (the most-trusted free
browser fingerprint in the fleet) all fail to clear in-house; DataDome
escalates to the same interactive puzzle widget every time. No in-house
transport reaches review data. This directory holds the cloud
discovery-probe used to establish that, kept as the investigation record. It
is not a working scraper, does not pass the cloud gate, and is not
published.

### Intended shape (champion-parity target, issue #82)

Input: `urls[]` (Klook activity page URLs), `max_review_per_page`, `sort_by`,
`language`, `proxyConfiguration`.

Output (10 champion-parity fields, per
`knagymate/klook-reviews-scraper`): `page_id, page_url, review_id, time,
content_original, content_translate, score, score_description, images[],
like_count` + fleet-standard `parse_confidence, warnings`.

### Why it's blocked

See `ACCESS_PROBE.md` for the full rung-by-rung diagnosis. Short version:
every activity-page navigation (curl\_cffi direct, Camoufox browser render,
patchright + real Chrome + Xvfb, and a bounded set of guessed
sibling-service JSON endpoints) is served a DataDome CAPTCHA instead of
content — patchright's real-Chrome fingerprint still gets escalated to the
same interactive puzzle widget, on 3 separate cloud runs with fresh proxy
sessions. The one confirmed-working keyless internal API (reused from the
sibling `klook-activity-price-tracker` actor) only returns a review
*summary* (star rating + count), not individual records.

### What would unblock it

A managed-access service capable of clearing DataDome's interactive
CAPTCHA — a COGS decision reserved for Bond, not made here. This is now the
strongest BD candidate among the retry set: the free stack's best fingerprint
(real Chrome + Xvfb) was actually tried and still escalated.

# Actor input Schema

## `activityUrl` (type: `string`):

A Klook activity page URL to probe for its reviews data source.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Klook language locale to request, e.g. en.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify proxy used to reach Klook. Residential is the reliable default.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "activityUrl": "https://www.klook.com/activity/363-dream-world-bangkok/",
  "language": "en",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "activityUrl": "https://www.klook.com/activity/363-dream-world-bangkok/",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parsing_machine/klook-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 = {
    "activityUrl": "https://www.klook.com/activity/363-dream-world-bangkok/",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parsing_machine/klook-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 '{
  "activityUrl": "https://www.klook.com/activity/363-dream-world-bangkok/",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call parsing_machine/klook-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,parsing_machine/klook-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/zcqom73W8ea6jrLA4/builds/wCVLjzHhiHebckKUc/openapi.json