# Headout Reviews Scraper - Tours & Attractions (`thirdwatch/headout-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Scrape public Headout reviews for tours, attractions, tickets, museums, cruises, and experiences. Get ratings, original and translated text, reviewer details, countries, booking and tour IDs, traveler personas, photos, timestamps, and optional aggregate scores over a fast HTTP API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/thirdwatch/headout-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Thirdwatch](https://apify.com/thirdwatch) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

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

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

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# README

## Headout Reviews Scraper

Extract public customer reviews from Headout tours, attractions, museums, tickets, cruises, theme parks, and other travel experiences. The Actor uses Headout's own review JSON endpoint and needs no browser, proxy, authentication, or cookies.

### What it returns

- Review, tour-group, tour, and booking IDs
- Rating, title, original content, translated content, and source language
- Reviewer name, profile image, country, and traveler persona
- Publication timestamp and customer-uploaded image metadata
- Optional activity name, average rating, total review count, and star distribution for URL inputs

### Input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.headout.com/athens-acropolis-tickets/acropolis-parthenon-tickets-with-optional-audio-guide-e-12045/"
  ],
  "maxReviews": 250,
  "sortBy": "MOST_RECENT",
  "language": "EN",
  "ratings": ["4", "5"],
  "sourceLanguages": ["EN", "IT"],
  "withImagesOnly": false,
  "cutoffDate": "2025-01-01",
  "aggregateRatings": false
}
```

The singular `startUrl` input is also accepted for compatibility with existing integrations. `tourGroupIds` accepts the numeric ID from a Headout URL's `e-12045` suffix for API-first batch integrations.

### Technical approach

- Pure HTTP against Headout's public `/api/v6/tour-groups/{id}/reviews` endpoint
- Up to 100 reviews per API page with offset pagination
- No browser or proxy; 256 MB memory
- Automatic retries, rate limiting, deduplication, batch URLs, and client-side filters
- Optional aggregate ratings for URL inputs from the page's embedded Next.js state

### Pricing

Pay per review written to the dataset. Empty runs, retries, duplicates, and filtered-out reviews are not charged.

| Tier | Price per review |
|---|---:|
| FREE | $0.0030 |
| BRONZE | $0.0025 |
| SILVER | $0.0020 |
| GOLD | $0.0015 |

Built by [Thirdwatch](https://thirdwatch.dev).

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Headout pages for tours, attractions, museums, tickets, cruises, or other experiences.

## `tourGroupIds` (type: `array`):

Optional numeric IDs from the e-12345 suffix in Headout activity URLs.

## `maxReviews` (type: `integer`):

Maximum matching reviews returned for every activity. The Actor keeps paginating when filters exclude reviews.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Order reviews by publication time or Headout relevance.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language Headout should use for translatedContent. Original content and sourceLanguage are preserved.

## `ratings` (type: `array`):

Return only reviews with these ratings. Leave empty for all ratings.

## `sourceLanguages` (type: `array`):

Optional source-language codes such as EN, IT, DE, or FR. Leave empty for all languages.

## `withImagesOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Return only reviews containing customer-uploaded media.

## `cutoffDate` (type: `string`):

Optional ISO date such as 2026-07-01. Older reviews are skipped.

## `aggregateRatings` (type: `boolean`):

For activity URL inputs, fetch the page and add its average rating, counts, and star distribution to each output row.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.headout.com/athens-acropolis-tickets/acropolis-parthenon-tickets-with-optional-audio-guide-e-12045/"
  ],
  "tourGroupIds": [],
  "maxReviews": 100,
  "sortBy": "MOST_RECENT",
  "language": "EN",
  "ratings": [],
  "sourceLanguages": [],
  "withImagesOnly": false,
  "aggregateRatings": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.headout.com/athens-acropolis-tickets/acropolis-parthenon-tickets-with-optional-audio-guide-e-12045/"
    ],
    "maxReviews": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("thirdwatch/headout-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 = {
    "startUrls": ["https://www.headout.com/athens-acropolis-tickets/acropolis-parthenon-tickets-with-optional-audio-guide-e-12045/"],
    "maxReviews": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("thirdwatch/headout-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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.headout.com/athens-acropolis-tickets/acropolis-parthenon-tickets-with-optional-audio-guide-e-12045/"
  ],
  "maxReviews": 100
}' |
apify call thirdwatch/headout-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,thirdwatch/headout-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/4OdGAFH4sccnMNMAx/builds/5ej8ZTyH38fNSUAyg/openapi.json