Yelp Reviews via Fusion API

Extract the 3 most-recent reviews per Yelp business via the official Yelp Fusion API. Bring your own free API key (5,000 calls/day at docs.developer.yelp.com).

Why this actor

Yelp Fusion API limits review extraction to 3 most-recent reviews per business (technical limitation of the official API). For full review extraction at scale, you'd need to scrape Yelp directly — but Yelp uses PerimeterX which makes that impractical for most users.

This actor gives you reliable access to the 3 most recent reviews — perfect for monitoring fresh sentiment on businesses, getting recent customer voice for marketing, or building agentic workflows that surface "what are people saying RIGHT NOW".

Output

Field	Description
businessId	Yelp business ID or alias (your input)
reviewId	Yelp review ID
rating	1-5 star rating
text	Review text (truncated by Yelp to ~160 chars in Fusion API)
timeCreated	When the review was posted
url	Direct URL to the review
userName, userImageUrl, userProfileUrl	Reviewer info
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp

Pricing

• $0.001 per review ($1.00 per 1,000 reviews)
• Most businesses return 3 reviews → 3 reviews × $0.001 = $0.003 per business
• 1,000 businesses cost approximately $3.00

FAQ

How do I scrape Yelp reviews for a list of businesses? Pass Yelp business IDs or aliases as input and the actor calls the Yelp Fusion reviews endpoint for each one, returning the 3 most-recent reviews per business — rating, text, date, reviewer name, and direct URL — in an export-ready dataset.

Do I need a Yelp Fusion API key? Yes — this actor uses the official Yelp Fusion API, so you bring your own free key (5,000 calls/day) from docs.developer.yelp.com. It is the reliable, official path to recent review data.

Why use this instead of the Yelp Fusion API directly? Fusion's review endpoint is awkward: it returns only 3 reviews per business, truncates text to ~160 characters, and requires you to handle auth and pagination yourself. This actor wraps all of that, flattens reviews into clean rows, and connects to Apify Schedules and integrations for automated sentiment monitoring.

What's the alternative for full review text, not just 3? Yelp Fusion technically caps reviews at 3 most-recent per business. For full review extraction at scale, use the Yelp Scraper (No API Key), which reads review text directly from Yelp pages without the Fusion limit.

How fresh are the reviews? The actor pulls the 3 most-recent reviews live from Yelp Fusion on every run, so scheduled runs surface new customer sentiment as it appears — ideal for "what are people saying right now" monitoring.

Is scraping Yelp reviews legal? This actor uses Yelp's official API under your own key and terms, returning publicly visible reviews. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with Yelp's terms and applicable data-protection laws in your jurisdiction.

Automate it

Add this actor to an Apify Schedule to monitor fresh reviews daily and catch new sentiment as soon as it lands. Connect runs via Apify integrations to Make, n8n, Zapier, Google Sheets, Slack, or a webhook/CRM so new reviews trigger alerts or flow into your reputation-management workflow automatically.

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