# Capterra Profile Scraper — Vendor Copy & Q\&A (`thenetaji/capterra-profile-scraper`) Actor

Read a software product's Capterra profile from its page address: the vendor's full description, the aggregate rating and review count, supported platforms, Capterra's own category for it, and the product Q\&A that the reviews page does not carry.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/thenetaji/capterra-profile-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [The Netaji](https://apify.com/thenetaji) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Marketing, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $17.00 / 1,000 product profiles

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

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

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# README

## Capterra Profile Scraper

The vendor's side of a software product, read from its Capterra page: the full product
description, the aggregate rating and the review count behind it, the platforms it lists, the
category Capterra files it under, and the product Q\&A.

That last one is the reason this Actor exists as its own thing. **The profile page carries no
reviews and the reviews page carries no Q\&A.** Neither is a subset of the other, so the two are
two reads rather than one read with an option — and folding the profile into a review walk
would mean a second request per product charged as though it were free.

### Accepted input

`productUrls` is required and takes one or more Capterra product pages, one per line. A full
link works:

```
https://www.capterra.com/p/147657/monday-com/
```

So does the pair inside it, `147657/monday-com`. **The number on its own does not.** A Capterra
product is addressed by a number and a name and neither can be derived from the other, so a
bare `147657` is refused before any request is made rather than after one has been paid for.
The name half is case sensitive — Capterra spells them `monday-com`, `GitLab`, `Structure`,
`Asana-PM` — which is why the practical way to fill this field is to paste the `url` column
from [Capterra Category Scraper](https://apify.com/thenetaji/capterra-category-scraper) rather
than to type anything.

```json
{
  "productUrls": [
    "https://www.capterra.com/p/147657/monday-com/",
    "159806/GitLab"
  ]
}
```

### Response fields

One row per product. This is the row that run produced for the first entry, with the
description and the Q\&A shortened for length:

```json
{
  "product_id": "147657",
  "slug": "monday-com",
  "url": "https://www.capterra.com/p/147657/monday-com/",
  "name": "monday.com AI Work Platform",
  "description": "monday.com empowers teams to manage the entire project lifecycle in one place with precision. It provides advanced capab ...",
  "application_category": "BusinessApplication",
  "operating_systems": [],
  "rating": 4.6,
  "rating_best": 5,
  "rating_worst": 1,
  "review_count": 6095,
  "category_slug": "project-management-software",
  "category_name": "Project Management Software",
  "category_url": "https://www.capterra.com/project-management-software/",
  "breadcrumbs": [
    { "position": 1, "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.capterra.com/", "slug": null },
    {
      "position": 2,
      "name": "Project Management Software",
      "url": "https://www.capterra.com/project-management-software/",
      "slug": "project-management-software"
    },
    { "position": 3, "name": "monday.com AI Work Platform", "url": null, "slug": null }
  ],
  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "What problems does monday.com AI Work Platform solve?",
      "answer": "monday.com AI Work Platform solves scattered task ownership, weak cross-team vis ..."
    }
  ]
}
```

`category_slug` runs the other way to the rest of this family. Every other address here points
from a category down to a product; this one points from a product back up to the category it
belongs to, and it is exactly the value
[Capterra Category Scraper](https://apify.com/thenetaji/capterra-category-scraper) takes. Given
one product, that is how you reach its competitors.

`faq` is Capterra's own product Q\&A, republished whole. Nine entries on the product above, and
none of them anywhere on its reviews page.

`operating_systems` is frequently an empty list, as it is above. That means the page stated
none, not that the product runs nowhere.

`rating_best` is 5 and `rating_worst` is 1, on every product. The scale is published anyway,
because a review row in this family carries a would-you-recommend score out of 10 beside a star
rating out of 5, and an assumed scale is how the two get averaged together.

### Behaviour on partial results

A product address that no longer resolves is logged and skipped, and the run continues with the
next one. That is not a rare case here: Capterra product numbers rot, and the number published
for one well-known product in older public write-ups answers 404 today. Losing nineteen good
rows to one dead address would be the wrong trade.

An entry that is not a product address at all — a bare number, a product name — is logged and
skipped without a request being made, and the log says what a valid address looks like.

### Frequently asked questions

**Why is there no review text on these rows?**
Because there is none on the page. Capterra's profile carries the rating summary and an empty
review list; the reviews live on their own page. Run
[Capterra Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/thenetaji/capterra-reviews-scraper) with the same
`productUrls` for those.

**Why did one product take thirty seconds and the next take three?**
Because a page Capterra is already holding answers immediately and one that has to be fetched
fresh does not. Two live profile reads on 2026-08-23 took 33.9s and 32.8s; other endpoints on
the same site answered in under two seconds the same minute. A run that appears to pause is
behaving normally.

**Can I pass just the product number?**
No, and that is a property of Capterra rather than a restriction added here — `/p/147657/` on
its own is not a page. Pass the whole address, or the `url` column from a category export.

**Why is the slug capitalised on some products?**
Because Capterra capitalises it. `GitLab` and `Structure` are the real spellings of those
addresses and lowercasing them produces a 404, so nothing in this Actor changes the case of
what you paste.

**Is a Capterra account, cookie or API key required?**
No. No account, session cookie or key of any kind is supplied to the Actor or needed by it.

### Related Actors

[Capterra Category Scraper](https://apify.com/thenetaji/capterra-category-scraper) walks a
category in ranked order and publishes the address of every product in it — including the ones
this Actor takes.

[Capterra Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/thenetaji/capterra-reviews-scraper) reads the same
products' reviews, with pros and cons kept as separate answers and the reviewer's job title and
industry on every row.

# Actor input Schema

## `productUrls` (type: `array`):

Capterra product pages, one per line, as full links such as https://www.capterra.com/p/147657/monday-com/ or as the id and name pair inside one, 147657/monday-com. Copy the address from Capterra's own URL bar, or use the `url` a category row already carries — the number alone is not enough to open a product, and the name half is spelled Capterra's way rather than the product's.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "productUrls": [
    "147657/monday-com"
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

All records scraped by this run

# 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 = {
    "productUrls": [
        "https://www.capterra.com/p/147657/monday-com/"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("thenetaji/capterra-profile-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 = { "productUrls": ["https://www.capterra.com/p/147657/monday-com/"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("thenetaji/capterra-profile-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 '{
  "productUrls": [
    "https://www.capterra.com/p/147657/monday-com/"
  ]
}' |
apify call thenetaji/capterra-profile-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,thenetaji/capterra-profile-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/F6gghcktexciA04h9/builds/HdPRMzKV4ahRgAnH0/openapi.json