Yelp Scraper

Scrape Yelp search results, business pages and reviews into a clean dataset: business name, rating, review count, categories, price level ($-$$$$), street and city, neighborhoods, weekly opening hours, rank in the search and the review snippet. Turn on details for the phone number, website, full address with ZIP code and coordinates, claimed status, amenities and menu link. Add reviews to get every review's rating, text, date, reviewer name and profile link, photos, votes and the owner's reply.

Search by keyword and location ("plumbers" in "Chicago, IL") or paste Yelp URLs. No login and no Yelp API key. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull them through the API into your CRM, Google Sheets or an LLM pipeline. You pay per item you get.

What data does Yelp Scraper extract?

Every business (the result event):

Field	Description
type	"business"
bizId, alias, url	Yelp business id, the slug in /biz/<alias>, and the canonical yelp.com URL
name	Business name
rating, reviewCount	Star rating (1-5, one decimal) and number of reviews
categories	Yelp categories, e.g. ["Coffee & Tea", "Bakeries"]
priceRange	$ to $$$$ when Yelp shows one
address, city, neighborhoods	Street address (empty for service-area businesses that hide it), city, neighborhoods
hours	Weekly opening hours: [{"day": "Mon", "hours": "7:00 AM - 5:00 PM"}, ...]
photoUrl	Main photo
snippet, highlights	Review snippet or specialty line shown in the search result; business highlights ("Free consultations")
rank, isAd	Position in the organic results (1 = first); true for sponsored results (off by default)
searchTerm, searchLocation, sourceUrl, detailsScraped, scrapedAt	Provenance

With Include business details on, or for business URLs (the extra detail event):

Field	Description
phone	Phone number as Yelp shows it, e.g. (212) 254-2246
website, menuUrl	Business website and menu link
fullAddress, region, postalCode, country	205 E Houston St, New York, NY 10002, state / region code, ZIP, country code
latitude, longitude	Coordinates (mobile page variant; null when only the desktop page answered)
isClaimed, isClosed	Claimed by the owner; permanently closed
amenities	Active amenities and attributes: "Takes reservations", "Wheelchair accessible", "Outdoor seating", ...
summary, specialties, yearEstablished	"About the business" texts when the owner filled them in

With Max reviews per business above 0 (the review event), one item per review:

Field	Description
type	"review"
reviewId, reviewUrl	Review id and a link that opens the review on Yelp
rating, text, language	Stars (1-5), full review text, language code
date, localDate	When it was posted (UTC and the business's local time)
reviewerName, reviewerId, reviewerProfileUrl	Reviewer display name as Yelp shows it ("Marissa B."), user id and profile link
reviewerLocation, reviewerReviewCount, reviewerFriendCount, reviewerPhotoCount, reviewerEliteYear	Public reviewer stats; Elite year when the badge is shown
usefulCount, funnyCount, coolCount	Votes
photos	Photos attached to the review (full size)
ownerReply	{text, date, ownerName, ownerRole} when the business replied publicly, else null
businessId, businessAlias, businessName, businessUrl, scrapedAt	The business the review belongs to

How to scrape Yelp businesses

1. Enter one or more Search terms ("pizza", "dentist", "auto repair") and a Location ("San Francisco, CA", a ZIP code or a neighborhood), and/or paste Start URLs: Yelp search pages (filters you set on yelp.com stay in the URL) or business pages (yelp.com/biz/...).
2. Set Max items to cap the run and the cost. Businesses and reviews both count.
3. Turn on Include business details if you need phone numbers and websites (one more request per business).
4. Click Start. Results appear in the Dataset tab, with a Businesses view and a Reviews view.

Yelp lists 10 businesses per search page and at most 240 per search. To collect more, split the area: search several neighborhoods or ZIP codes.

How to scrape Yelp reviews

Paste business URLs into Start URLs, set Max reviews per business (for example 100), choose the Review order (Yelp's relevance order, newest, oldest, highest or lowest rated, Elite reviewers first) and turn on Reviews only if you do not need the business rows. Reviews come 20 per request. Yelp filters reviews by language; set Review language (default en) to collect reviews written in another language.

You can also scrape reviews of every business in a search: set search terms and a location plus Max reviews per business.

Monitor changes on a schedule

Turn on Only new or changed items and save the input as a task with a Schedule (Apify Console: Saved tasks -> Schedule, for example daily). Each run remembers what earlier runs of the same input returned and outputs only what is new: reviews posted since the last run (read newest first; paging stops as soon as a page reaches reviews from an earlier run, so a daily check of one business usually costs one review request plus its business page) and businesses that newly appear in your search. Without reviews, a business is output again when its rating, price range or closed status changed; unchanged businesses are skipped before their business page is opened, so they cost neither an Unblocker request nor an event. Add Only reviews newer than (7 days, 24 hours or a date like 2026-10-01) to bound how far back the first run reads. Monitored items carry changeType (new or changed) and, for changed businesses, previousValues with the old values (e.g. {"rating": 4.5}); use Monitoring key to keep several schedules on the same input apart.

Input example

{
  "searchTerms": ["coffee"],
  "location": "Seattle, WA",
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/katzs-delicatessen-new-york" }],
  "maxItems": 200,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxReviewsPerBusiness": 20,
  "reviewsSort": "newest",
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["UNBLOCKER"] }
}

Output example

A business from a search page:

{
  "type": "business",
  "bizId": "FVzl8rDPiTWEtrNEuCu-Xg",
  "alias": "storyville-coffee-company-seattle-9",
  "name": "Storyville Coffee Company",
  "url": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/storyville-coffee-company-seattle-9",
  "rating": 4.5,
  "reviewCount": 2623,
  "categories": ["Coffee & Tea", "Bakeries"],
  "priceRange": "$$$",
  "address": "94 Pike St",
  "city": "Seattle",
  "neighborhoods": ["Downtown"],
  "hours": [{ "day": "Mon", "hours": "7:00 AM - 5:00 PM" }, { "day": "Tue", "hours": "7:00 AM - 5:00 PM" }],
  "photoUrl": "https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/TecGMknBtZNXGSey2DnFyQ/ls.jpg",
  "snippet": "I love the vibe inside the coffee shop. It's moody and cozy and has a lovely view from their...",
  "highlights": [],
  "isAd": false,
  "rank": 1,
  "searchTerm": "coffee",
  "searchLocation": "Seattle, WA",
  "detailsScraped": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-05T20:12:00+00:00"
}

Detail fields of a business page:

{
  "name": "Katz's Delicatessen",
  "phone": "(212) 254-2246",
  "website": "https://www.katzsdelicatessen.com",
  "menuUrl": "https://localmenu.katzsdelicatessen.com/",
  "fullAddress": "205 E Houston St, New York, NY 10002",
  "postalCode": "10002",
  "latitude": 40.72228023,
  "longitude": -73.98738542,
  "isClaimed": true,
  "isClosed": false,
  "amenities": ["Offers delivery", "Offers take-out", "Wheelchair accessible", "ADA-compliant main entrance"]
}

A review:

{
  "type": "review",
  "reviewId": "YKECrz89NBigWkOexmA7-w",
  "reviewUrl": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/katzs-delicatessen-new-york?hrid=YKECrz89NBigWkOexmA7-w",
  "rating": 3,
  "text": "Very busy upon arrival. I was moved to a line but the line was not the correct line for what I wanted to order...",
  "language": "en",
  "date": "2026-08-26T17:53:15Z",
  "reviewerName": "Marissa B.",
  "reviewerProfileUrl": "https://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=3h_y01VB9oZR72W7e1DMMA",
  "reviewerLocation": "Farmington, NY",
  "reviewerReviewCount": 366,
  "reviewerEliteYear": "2026",
  "usefulCount": 0,
  "photos": ["https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/WwQSxmpLKGGwnXQfsxplvg/o.jpg"],
  "ownerReply": {
    "text": "We're glad to hear that you enjoyed your visit, but so sorry that you felt confused by the lines! ...",
    "date": "2026-09-11T23:52:06Z",
    "ownerName": "Jake D.",
    "ownerRole": "OWNER"
  },
  "businessName": "Katz's Delicatessen",
  "businessUrl": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/katzs-delicatessen-new-york"
}

How much does it cost to scrape Yelp?

Pay per event, plus the Apify usage of the run:

Event	Price	When
result	$0.003	Each business saved
detail	$0.001	Extra per business whose page was opened (details on, or business URLs)
review	$0.00024	Each review saved

So 1,000 businesses from search cost $3, with phones and websites $4, and 1,000 reviews cost $0.24, before proxy usage.

Proxy note. Yelp answers datacenter and residential IPs with a DataDome captcha, so the default proxy is Apify's Unblocker. It is billed to your Apify account per request (10 Unblocker units, about $0.0015 on the free plan, less on paid plans), and on Yelp that includes the requests Yelp refuses, which are retried automatically: in our tests about half of the attempts got through, so plan on about $0.003 per page delivered. One page is a search page with 10 businesses, one business page, or 20 reviews. That adds roughly $0.30 per 1,000 businesses from search, $3 per 1,000 business pages (details), and $0.15 per 1,000 reviews, plus a little compute. The run's SUMMARY record (key-value store) reports unblockerRequests (every attempt, the billed number) and successfulRequests so you can check the proxy cost of each run.

Does it work without a Yelp account or API key?

Yes. It reads the public pages and the public review feed that yelp.com uses itself. It does not log in and does not need the Yelp Fusion API (which returns at most 3 review excerpts per business).

Why do some requests fail and get retried?

Yelp's bot protection refuses part of the requests even through the Unblocker. The scraper retries each page on a rotation of Yelp's equivalent hosts (www.yelp.com, m.yelp.com, yelp.ca, yelp.co.uk; the data is identical and the output always links to yelp.com) with up to six attempts. Pages take 5-60 seconds each, so a run of 100 businesses usually finishes in a few minutes. Every attempt counts as an Unblocker request (see the proxy note above).

Is it legal to scrape Yelp?

The Actor collects only what Yelp shows publicly to every visitor without logging in: business listings, public reviews with the reviewer's display name (first name and last initial) and public profile link, and public owner replies. Nothing behind a login, no private messages, no masked data. Reviews and reviewer names are personal data in some jurisdictions (GDPR, CCPA): have a legitimate purpose, keep only what you need, and check Yelp's terms and your local law before reusing the data. If you are unsure, consult a lawyer.