Yelp Scraper - Business Leads, Reviews, Ratings (No API Key)

Extract Yelp business data at scale — names, star ratings, review counts, prices, categories, full addresses, phone numbers, websites, GPS coordinates, photos, and (optionally) the actual review text — just by giving a search term and a location. No Yelp Fusion API key. No developer account. No rate-limit headaches. You type "coffee shops" + "Austin, TX" and get a clean, export-ready dataset of local businesses.

Most Yelp scrapers and the official Yelp Fusion API force you to register an app, manage an API key, and live inside a 5,000-call/day cap that returns a maximum of 50 results per search and no review text. This Yelp scraper needs none of that. It reads the same business data Yelp serves to a normal browser, so you get the full picture without bringing your own key.

Why use this Yelp scraper

• No API key required — start scraping in seconds, nothing to register.
• Built for lead generation — phone, address, website and category for every business, perfect for cold outreach lists and local sales prospecting.
• Ratings & reviews — average rating, total review count, and optional recent review text (author, rating, date, body).
• Reliable extraction — it parses Yelp's own structured business JSON first, with embedded-JSON and rendered-DOM fallbacks, so results stay populated even when Yelp tweaks its layout.
• Residential proxies built in — Yelp blocks datacenter traffic with PerimeterX; this actor routes through residential IPs so pages load like a real visitor.
• Clean, flat output — one row per business (and one row per review), ready for CSV, Excel, Google Sheets, JSON, or your CRM/database.

What data you get

Per business:

Field	Type	Description
businessName	string	Business name as listed on Yelp
alias	string	Yelp business slug (stable id)
yelpUrl	string	Direct link to the Yelp business page
rating	number	Average star rating (1.0–5.0)
reviewCount	integer	Total number of reviews
priceLevel	string	Price tier ($, $$, $$$, $$$$)
categories	array	Category tags (e.g. ["Coffee & Tea", "Cafes"])
address	string	Street address when shown on the result card
city / state / zipCode	string	Location parts when available
neighborhood	string	Neighborhood when available
phone	string	Business phone number (sponsored results)
website	string	Business website when listed
latitude / longitude	number	GPS coordinates when available
imageUrl	string	Cover photo URL
isAdvertised	boolean	true for paid/sponsored listings
searchTerm / location	string	The query that returned this row
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 collection timestamp

Per review (when includeReviews is on), dataType: "review":

Field	Description
businessName, alias, yelpUrl	Which business the review belongs to
reviewAuthor	Reviewer name
reviewRating	Star rating of the review
reviewDate	Date published
reviewText	Review body

Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
searchTerm	string	Yes	—	What to search, e.g. coffee shops, dentists, plumbers
location	string	Yes	—	City + state or ZIP, e.g. Austin, TX or 90210
searchTerms	array	No	—	Extra terms to run in the same location
maxResults	integer	No	50	Max businesses per term (Yelp paginates 10/page)
includeReviews	boolean	No	false	Also scrape recent reviews per business
maxReviewsPerBusiness	integer	No	5	Reviews to pull per business when reviews are on
proxyCountry	string	No	US	Residential proxy country for the location you scrape

Example input

{
  "searchTerm": "coffee shops",
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "includeReviews": false
}

Example output

{
  "businessName": "Houndstooth Coffee",
  "alias": "houndstooth-coffee-austin",
  "yelpUrl": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/houndstooth-coffee-austin",
  "rating": 4.4,
  "reviewCount": 612,
  "priceLevel": "$$",
  "categories": ["Coffee & Tea", "Cafes"],
  "address": "401 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701",
  "city": "Austin",
  "state": "TX",
  "zipCode": "78701",
  "phone": "(512) 394-6051",
  "website": "houndstoothcoffee.com",
  "latitude": 30.2669,
  "longitude": -97.7428,
  "imageUrl": "https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/...",
  "isAdvertised": false,
  "searchTerm": "coffee shops",
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-12T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Use cases

• Local lead generation — build prospect lists of dentists, lawyers, contractors, gyms, salons, restaurants, or any niche in any city, with phone + website ready for outreach.
• Sales prospecting & cold email/SMS — export business contact details straight into your CRM.
• Competitive intelligence — track competitors' ratings and review velocity over time.
• Market research & gap analysis — count businesses per category to size a local market.
• Local SEO & reputation — study top-rated competitors and review sentiment.
• Restaurant / retail analytics — price-tier and rating distributions for reports.

How it works

The actor opens Yelp's search results in a real headless Chrome through Apify residential proxies, then captures the structured business data Yelp itself loads — first from its internal search responses, then from JSON embedded in the page, and finally from the rendered cards as a fallback. Because Yelp gates everything behind PerimeterX bot protection, residential IPs are required; the actor handles that automatically. It paginates 10 results per page until it reaches maxResults, deduplicates by business, and (optionally) visits each business page to pull recent reviews from its structured review data.

FAQ

Do I need a Yelp API key or Yelp developer account? No. That is the whole point. Unlike the Yelp Fusion API and key-based scrapers, this actor works with zero credentials.

Is this better than the Yelp Fusion API? For most lead-gen and research jobs, yes: no key, no 50-results-per-search cap, no 5,000-calls/day quota, and you can also get review text — which Fusion does not give you in full.

Can I scrape Yelp reviews? Yes. Turn on includeReviews to also collect recent reviews (author, rating, date, text) for every business found.

Can I search multiple categories at once? Yes. Put extra terms in searchTerms and they all run against the same location.

Which countries / Yelp domains are supported? US Yelp (yelp.com) by default. Set proxyCountry to match your target market for best results.

Why do I need residential proxies? Yelp blocks datacenter IP addresses with PerimeterX. Residential proxies make requests look like ordinary visitors. The actor uses them automatically.

What if a search returns nothing? Genuinely empty searches are reported as warnings (not failures) in the run's key-value store under WARNINGS, so empty results are explainable. Hard anti-bot blocks are recorded under FAILURES.

What format is the output? A standard Apify dataset — export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or Google Sheets, or pull it via the API.

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing: a small fee per run start plus a small fee per business returned. You only pay for the data you actually get. Apify platform usage (compute + residential proxy) is billed separately by Apify.

Disclaimer

Scrape responsibly and only collect publicly available data. You are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with Yelp's terms and applicable laws (including data-protection regulations) in your jurisdiction.