indeed-company-reviews

Overview

indeed-company-reviews is an Apify actor designed to scrape company reviews from the Indeed platform. It automates the process of collecting detailed review data, such as review text, ratings, job titles, locations, and more, from a company's review page.

Features

• Scrape reviews from a specified company's Indeed review page.
• Filter reviews by keywords, country, and sort order.
• Extract detailed information, including:
  • Review text and title.
  • Overall rating.
  • Job title and location.
  • Submission date.
  • Helpful/unhelpful counts.
  • Whether the reviewer is a current employee.
• Handle pagination to retrieve multiple pages of reviews.

Input

The actor accepts the following input parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
reviewsUrl	string	Yes	The URL of the company's reviews page on Indeed (e.g., https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Amazon.com/reviews).
q	string	No	Keywords to filter reviews by specific text.
country	string	No	Country code to filter reviews (e.g., US, GB, CA, or ALL for all countries).
sort	string	No	The order to sort reviews (date_desc, rating_desc, rating_asc).
size	integer	No	The number of reviews to scrape (minimum 1).

Example Input

{
  "reviewsUrl": "https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Amazon.com/reviews",
  "q": "work-life balance",
  "country": "US",
  "sort": "rating_desc",
  "size": 50
}

Output

The actor outputs a JSON array containing the scraped reviews. Each review includes the following fields:

• id: The unique ID of the review.
• country: The country where the review was posted.
• currentEmployee: Whether the reviewer is a current employee.
• helpful: The number of helpful votes.
• unhelpful: The number of unhelpful votes.
• jobTitle: The job title of the reviewer.
• location: The location of the reviewer.
• overallRating: The overall rating given by the reviewer.
• reviewUrl: The URL of the review.
• submissionDate: The date the review was submitted.
• text: The content of the review.
• title: The title of the review.

Example Output

[
  {
    "id": "12345",
    "country": "US",
    "currentEmployee": true,
    "helpful": 10,
    "unhelpful": 2,
    "jobTitle": "Software Engineer",
    "location": "Seattle, WA",
    "overallRating": 4.5,
    "reviewUrl": "https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Amazon.com/reviews/12345",
    "submissionDate": "2023-01-01",
    "text": "Great place to work with excellent benefits.",
    "title": "Amazing Experience"
  }
]

How to Use

1. Deploy the actor on the Apify platform.
2. Provide the required input parameters, including the reviewsUrl.
3. Run the actor to scrape reviews.
4. Download the results in JSON format for further analysis.

Use Cases

• Competitor Analysis: Understand how employees perceive competitors in your industry.
• Employer Branding: Analyze reviews to improve your company's reputation and employee satisfaction.
• Market Research: Gather insights into employee experiences across different companies and regions.
• Data Analysis: Use the scraped data for sentiment analysis, trend identification, or other analytical purposes.