Yelp Scraper — Businesses & Reviews

Turn public Yelp into clean, structured data. Point the Actor at business URLs, keyword + location searches, or Yelp search URLs and get back rich records for businesses and their full review threads — no Yelp account, no API keys, no login.

Every source flows into one dataset with ready-made views, exportable to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML, or straight into Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, or your own app via the API.

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🚀 What it does

• Business details — name, categories, rating, review count, price level, phone, full address, website, hours, amenities/attributes, and photo.
• Full reviews — complete text (not snippets), star rating, date, reviewer name/location, elite status, attached photos and videos, owner replies, and reactions.
• Three ways in — paste business URLs, search by keyword + location, or hand it a Yelp search URL and let it expand into businesses.
• Deep pagination — collects every review a business has, not just the first page.

✨ Extras (beyond the basics)

• 🧠 Sentiment analysis — a score and label on every review.
• 📧 Contact enrichment — pulls emails and social profiles from the business's own website.
• 📊 Review analytics — a per-business rollup: average rating and sentiment, rating distribution, and top keywords.
• 🔔 Monitoring — onlyNewerThan collects only reviews posted since your last run.

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🎯 Input

Provide at least one source. You can mix them freely.

Field	What it does
directUrls	Yelp business page URLs (or aliases).
searchTerms + locations	Each keyword is searched in each location.
searchUrls	Ready-made Yelp search result URLs (with filters).

Reviews & filters: scrapeReviews, maxReviewsPerBusiness, reviewSort (recommended / newest / oldest / highest / lowest / elites), reviewRatings (1–5), reviewKeyword, reviewLanguage, translateReviews.

Add-ons: sentiment, enrichContacts, reviewAnalytics, onlyNewerThan.

Limits: maxItems, maxBusinessesPerSearch, dedupe, maxConcurrency.

Example

{
  "searchTerms": ["coffee"],
  "locations": ["San Francisco, CA"],
  "maxBusinessesPerSearch": 10,
  "scrapeReviews": true,
  "maxReviewsPerBusiness": 50,
  "reviewSort": "newest",
  "sentiment": true
}

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📦 Output

Every record has a dataType (business, review, or analytics). Ready-made dataset views split them into Businesses, Reviews, and an Overview.

Business

{
  "dataType": "business",
  "businessId": "WavvLdfdP6g8aZTtbBQHTw",
  "name": "Gary Danko",
  "url": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/gary-danko-san-francisco",
  "rating": 4.5,
  "reviewCount": 6130,
  "priceRange": "$$$$",
  "categories": ["New American", "French", "Cocktail Bars"],
  "phone": "(415) 749-2060",
  "address": "800 N Point St, San Francisco, CA, 94109",
  "city": "San Francisco",
  "state": "CA",
  "website": "https://www.garydanko.com",
  "hours": [{ "day": "Monday", "hours": "5:00 PM - 10:00 PM" }],
  "attributes": { "WheelchairAccessible": true, "OutdoorSeating": false }
}

Review

{
  "dataType": "review",
  "reviewId": "TGBBH1XtbecP-Q2NKU2XBg",
  "rating": 5,
  "text": "Five stars for special service by the lady server...",
  "date": "2026-07-23T23:46:41-04:00",
  "authorName": "Nooruddin G.",
  "authorLocation": "Los Angeles, CA",
  "authorReviewCount": 137,
  "authorIsElite": false,
  "photos": ["https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/.../o.jpg"],
  "ownerReply": null,
  "sentimentLabel": "positive",
  "businessName": "Bar 54",
  "url": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/bar-54-new-york-2?hrid=TGBBH1XtbecP-Q2NKU2XBg"
}

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💡 Use cases

• Reputation monitoring — track new reviews and sentiment for your locations on a schedule.
• Lead generation — build lists of businesses by category + city, enriched with emails and socials.
• Market & competitor research — rating distributions, pricing, and review themes across a market.
• Voice-of-customer — mine review text and sentiment for product and service insights.

💳 Pricing

Pay per result — set maxItems to cap a run. Any unavailable, private, or filtered source is written to the Issues dataset — never billed as a result.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Yelp account or API key? No. You never sign in, register an app, or supply a key — the Actor handles authenticated access to public Yelp for you and returns clean data.

Does it get full review text? Yes — complete review text with pagination through all of a business's reviews, not the 3-review snippets the official API returns.

My run returned nothing — why? The log tells you. If reviews were filtered, they were excluded by your rating/date/keyword rules. If there were issues, a source was unavailable or Yelp briefly throttled the run — just run it again. (An empty input never errors — it returns a friendly reminder.)

Can I export to Google Sheets / Make / Zapier? Yes. Every dataset downloads as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML, and integrates with Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, webhooks, and the Apify API.

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