Nicelocal Reviews Scraper

What does Nicelocal Reviews Scraper do?

Nicelocal Reviews Scraper attempts to extract local business reviews from Nicelocal profile URLs (/{city}/{category}/{business}/) and regional domains such as nicelocal.co.uk. Paste a Nicelocal or profile URL and export structured review data when HTML is available.

Important limitations

• Primary Nicelocal domains often redirect to the Zoon network (zoon.ru, zoon.com.ua, etc.). The Actor logs a warning and tries best-effort parsing on the redirected page.
• Reviews may work only on regions still served by Nicelocal infrastructure; many global TLDs currently redirect away.
• Zoon review lists are often loaded via JavaScript, so Cheerio may return zero reviews even when the public site shows them in a browser.
• Geo blocks can occur — enable Apify Proxy (datacenter or residential) in input if fetches fail or return challenge pages.

The Actor always validates URLs, fetches pages, and logs clearly when no review markup is found (zero dataset items is expected in many runs).

Why scrape Nicelocal reviews?

• Local SEO monitoring — Track ratings where Nicelocal pages remain accessible.
• Reputation research — Collect review text when embedded in HTML (Schema.org or Zoon markup).
• Apify platform — Schedule runs, export datasets, and integrate via API.

What data can you extract?

Field	Description
reviewId	Review identifier when present in HTML
businessName	Business name from page title or schema
rating	Star rating (1–5) when available
text	Review body text
reviewDate	Published date
reviewerName	Reviewer name when exposed
sourceHost	Host that served the page (Nicelocal or Zoon)
redirectedFromNicelocal	Whether the start URL redirected to Zoon
aggregateRating	Business average score
aggregateReviewCount	Total review count from schema
profileUrl	Final profile URL after redirects

How to scrape Nicelocal reviews

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console.
2. Add Nicelocal profile URLs (or https://nicelocal.com/ to test redirects) under Start URLs.
3. Set Maximum items per URL.
4. If runs return blocked pages, enable Proxy configuration.
5. Run and download the dataset.

Input

Nicelocal Reviews Scraper accepts Start URLs, maxItems per URL, and optional proxy configuration (default: no proxy).

Supported hosts include nicelocal.com, www.nicelocal.com, and country TLDs such as nicelocal.co.uk.

Output example

{
  "reviewId": "schema-1",
  "businessName": "Example Restaurant",
  "rating": 4,
  "text": "Great service and food.",
  "reviewDate": "2025-11-12T12:00:00.000Z",
  "reviewerName": "Guest",
  "sourceHost": "zoon.ru",
  "redirectedFromNicelocal": true,
  "aggregateRating": 4.2,
  "aggregateReviewCount": 18,
  "profileUrl": "https://zoon.ru/msk/restaurants/example/"
}

How much does scraping cost?

Uses Cheerio (HTTP only) with no proxy by default. Runs that return zero items still consume minimal compute.

FAQ

Which URLs work?
Business paths like https://nicelocal.com/london/restaurants/example/ or regional equivalents. Homepage URLs are accepted for redirect testing but usually do not yield reviews.

Why zero results?
Redirects to Zoon plus client-side review loading are the most common causes. Check Actor logs for warnings.

Image Credit

Image credit: nicelocal.com