Yelp Reviews Scraper

Scrape Yelp reviews of any business as clean structured JSON - star rating, full review text, language, date and time, reviewer name, location, Elite status and review / friend / photo counts, review photos and videos, Helpful / Thanks / Love this / Oh no reactions, check-ins, the owner's public reply and the reviewer's earlier reviews of the same business. Many businesses in one run, up to 5000 reviews each. No Yelp account, no API key, no proxies to configure.

Features

• Any business input - a Yelp business page URL, its alias (gary-danko-san-francisco) or its Yelp business id. The id is the fastest; the run's BUSINESSES record returns it for next time.
• Yelp's own sort orders - newest, oldest, Yelp sort (relevance), highest rated, lowest rated, Elite reviewers first.
• Filters - review language, star ratings (e.g. only 1 and 2 stars), a keyword the review must mention, and a date (since).
• Full review data - rating, text, language, ISO date and local date-time, photos (URL, caption, size), videos, reactions, check-ins, first-to-review and Review of the Day flags, updated-review history (previousReviews) and the owner's reply with its date and author.
• Reviewer data - name, location, profile URL, avatar, review count, friend count, photo count, Elite status and year.
• Business summary - the BUSINESSES record has the business rating, review count, 1-5 star histogram, review counts per language, categories, city and region.
• Deduplicated - the same business given twice (URL, alias or id) is collected once.

Use cases

• Reputation monitoring - a scheduled run with Newest first and since delivers every new review of your locations or your competitors'.
• Complaint analysis - pull only 1 and 2 star reviews, or reviews mentioning "wait time" or "parking".
• Market research - compare what customers say about restaurants, clinics or shops in a city.
• Sentiment and LLM pipelines - feed clean review text, ratings and dates into BI tools, spreadsheets or an LLM for summaries.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
businesses	array	Gary Danko, San Francisco	Yelp business URLs, aliases or business ids.
maxReviewsPerBusiness	integer	20	Reviews per business (1-5000).
sort	string	newest	newest, relevance, oldest, highest, lowest, elites.
language	string	-	Two-letter code; empty = the business's main review language.
ratings	array	-	Only these star ratings ("1"-"5").
searchQuery	string	-	Only reviews mentioning this phrase.
since	string	-	Only reviews written on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

Example input

{
  "businesses": [
    "https://www.yelp.com/biz/gary-danko-san-francisco",
    "WLwc3pkt57xxjwXm43pPzQ"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerBusiness": 200,
  "sort": "newest",
  "ratings": ["1", "2"],
  "since": "2026-01-01"
}

Output

One dataset item per review:

{
  "businessId": "WavvLdfdP6g8aZTtbBQHTw",
  "businessAlias": "gary-danko-san-francisco",
  "businessName": "Gary Danko",
  "businessUrl": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/gary-danko-san-francisco",
  "id": "rmHRbvuVBpNb6faLI7EufQ",
  "url": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/gary-danko-san-francisco?hrid=rmHRbvuVBpNb6faLI7EufQ",
  "rating": 5,
  "text": "Been here for 10 years and cannot believe I haven't written a review.  First time dining a ...",
  "language": "en",
  "date": "2026-09-26",
  "publishedDate": "2026-09-26T20:12:05-07:00",
  "userId": "yzrukGWpdm6KGIHRAYo_rg",
  "userName": "Lei H.",
  "userLocation": "San Francisco, CA",
  "userProfileUrl": "https://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=yzrukGWpdm6KGIHRAYo_rg",
  "userAvatar": "https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/photo/670uYG2W19te4Uy9EVVdgQ/180s.jpg",
  "userReviewCount": 601,
  "userFriendCount": 281,
  "userPhotoCount": 1481,
  "userIsElite": true,
  "userEliteYear": 2026,
  "userIsEliteAllStar": null,
  "photos": [
    {
      "id": "0gwh8dr1Cc5sTNpfStU9oQ",
      "url": "https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/0gwh8dr1Cc5sTNpfStU9oQ/o.jpg",
      "caption": "Lobster Risotto",
      "width": 1501,
      "height": 2000
    }
  ],
  "photosCount": 2,
  "videos": [],
  "helpfulVotes": 1,
  "thanksVotes": 0,
  "loveThisVotes": 0,
  "ohNoVotes": 0,
  "checkIns": 0,
  "isFirstReviewer": false,
  "isReviewOfTheDay": false,
  "authorExpertise": "Cocktail Bar",
  "isUpdated": false,
  "previousReviews": [],
  "ownerResponseText": null,
  "ownerResponseDate": null,
  "ownerResponseAuthor": null,
  "ownerResponseAuthorRole": null,
  "businessInput": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/gary-danko-san-francisco"
}

The key-value store also holds:

• BUSINESSES - per business: id, alias, name, URL, rating, review count, star histogram, review counts per language, categories, city, region, image, the reviews in the chosen view and the reviews collected.
• ERRORS - businesses that returned no reviews (unknown business, no match for the filters, blocked) with the reason. These are not billed.

Pricing

$0.30 per 1000 reviews. You pay only for reviews delivered; failed businesses are not charged.

Notes

• Yelp lists reviews one language at a time. Without a language the scraper reads the language most of the business's reviews are in; the BUSINESSES record shows how many reviews exist in each language, so you can run the others too.
• With since, use Newest first for the fastest monitoring runs: paging stops at the first older review.