# Klook Reviews Scraper (`romy/klook-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Get activity reviews with real filters from Klook. Talks directly to Klook's own mobile app API, no login needed. Split from the mature, published klook-all-in-one-api for a focused, single-purpose workflow.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/romy/klook-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Romy](https://apify.com/romy) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 review chargeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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?

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The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

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

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# README

### What does Klook Reviews Scraper do?

**Klook Reviews Scraper** scrapes customer reviews for one Klook activity — reviewer name, rating, content, photos — with real filters (star rating, photo-only) and real pagination, one dataset row per review.

It talks directly to the same internal API the official [Klook](https://www.klook.com/) Android app uses, reverse-engineered by disassembling the app's native request-signing library and validated against live traffic captured from a real device. No Klook account, no API key. This is the reviews slice of [Klook All-in-One API](https://apify.com/romy/klook-all-in-one-api), split out as its own focused Actor.

### Why use Klook Reviews Scraper?

- **Real filters, not client-side guesses** — `starNum` (1-5) and `onlyImage` were both confirmed live by the parent Actor by tapping the actual control and reading the resulting request off the wire
- **Real, working pagination** — confirmed live by the parent Actor with real result counts
- **No account needed** — works fully anonymously
- **Use cases:** review sentiment analysis, rating monitoring, photo-review mining

### How it connects to the parent

This Actor is a narrow, batch-run spin-off of [klook-all-in-one-api](https://apify.com/romy/klook-all-in-one-api) (an always-on Standby REST API exposing every Klook endpoint). It reuses the parent's exact, proven request-signing logic (`klook-client.ts`, copied verbatim) but only wraps `/activities/{id}/reviews`, and runs as a normal input-in/dataset-out Actor instead of a Standby API.

### Input

| Field        | Type    | Description                                                                    |
| ------------ | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `activityId` | string  | **Required.** Klook activity id to fetch reviews for.                          |
| `starNum`    | integer | Filter to one star rating (1-5). Leave empty for all ratings.                  |
| `onlyImage`  | boolean | Only return reviews that include a photo.                                      |
| `pageSize`   | integer | Reviews per request. Default `10`                                              |
| `maxItems`   | integer | Stop once this many reviews have been pushed. Default: unlimited (all reviews) |

Example:

```json
{ "activityId": "93901", "starNum": 5, "pageSize": 20 }
```

### Output

One dataset row per review. Real example (from the parent Actor's own live-confirmed capture of `GET /activities/93901/reviews?star_num=1&limit=1`):

```json
{
    "author": "Klook User",
    "rating": 20,
    "content": "..."
}
```

### Known limitations

- **Requires Apify's RESIDENTIAL proxy group.** Klook's edge blocks non-residential IPs with a DataDome bot-challenge page — confirmed directly from this development sandbox (a request byte-for-byte identical to a working one, sent without the proxy, came back as a DataDome JS-challenge HTML page, not JSON). All outbound requests route through `Actor.createProxyConfiguration({ groups: ['RESIDENTIAL'] })`.
- **Local dev smoke testing outside the Apify platform needs "Proxy external access" enabled on the account.** This Actor's code was verified to be a byte-for-byte match against the parent's already-published, working `klook-client.ts`, and the local smoke test run during development failed exactly at the proxy-URL-acquisition step (`ProxyConfiguration: The "Proxy external access" feature isn't enabled for your account`) — before any request to Klook was even attempted. That's an account-tier restriction on pulling a proxy URL from *outside* a real platform Actor run, not a defect in this code; once deployed and actually run on Apify's platform, proxy access works through the normal SDK path.
- **`rating` is on a 0-100 scale in increments of 20, not 1-5** — confirmed live by the parent Actor: `star_num=1` returns only `rating=20` reviews (i.e. `rating = starNum * 20`). Divide by 20 to get the familiar star count.
- **One activity per run** — use `klook-activity-detail-scraper` to first discover activity ids, then run this Actor per id (or in a loop from your own orchestration).
- This is an unofficial, reverse-engineered integration, not affiliated with or endorsed by Klook Travel Technology Limited.

### Pricing

Pay per event. Charged **$0.0015 per `review`** (FREE tier) — one event per review pushed to the dataset. See the Actor's Pricing tab for rates across all tiers.

# Actor input Schema

## `activityId` (type: `string`):

Klook activity id to fetch reviews for.

## `starNum` (type: `integer`):

Filter to one star rating (1-5). Leave empty for all ratings.

## `onlyImage` (type: `boolean`):

Only return reviews that include a photo.

## `pageSize` (type: `integer`):

Reviews per request.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop once this many reviews have been pushed. Default: unlimited (all reviews).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "activityId": "93901",
  "pageSize": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (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 = {
    "activityId": "93901"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("romy/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 = { "activityId": "93901" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("romy/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 '{
  "activityId": "93901"
}' |
apify call romy/klook-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,romy/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/au0VEB42tOnzIh6t5/builds/k6MW8V9w8NlEG1TFi/openapi.json