# Review Pitch Generator — pre-sales reports (`travelmonitorlab/review-pitch-generator`) Actor

Scrape a business's worst recent Google Maps reviews and generate a ready-to-send sales pitch plus shareable HTML report. Pre-sales automation for Review Radar.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/travelmonitorlab/review-pitch-generator.md
- **Developed by:** [Travel Monitor Lab](https://apify.com/travelmonitorlab) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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

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# README

## Review Pitch Generator — pre-sales reports from worst Google Maps reviews

Point this Actor at a business (or a search of businesses), and it scrapes their **worst recent Google Maps reviews**, then generates a **ready-to-send sales pitch** plus a **shareable HTML report** — the argument that Review Radar would have caught those reviews in 3 minutes.

### Use this tool when

- You sell review-monitoring and want prospects delivered pre-qualified, with the sales argument generated from their own data
- You run outreach to hotels, restaurants, or local businesses and want a personalized report per prospect
- You want an honest pitch: real reviews, real ratings, no fabricated metrics

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `placeUrls` | Google Maps place URLs of the prospects |
| `query` | Alternative: a Maps search (first `maxPlaces` results) |
| `maxPlaces` | How many prospects to analyze (default 5) |
| `maxReviewsPerPlace` | Recent reviews scanned per business (default 15) |
| `worstThreshold` | Reviews at or below this rating go into the report (default 3) |
| `dryRun` | Skip report publishing and billing (testing) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Residential proxy strongly recommended |

### Output

One dataset item per business: `verdict` (`prospect` or `clean`), `worst` (the 5 worst reviews), `pitch` (ready-to-send text), `reportUrl` (public HTML report in the key-value store).

### How it works

1. Scrapes recent reviews of each place (shared, battle-tested Maps module: consent wall, media blocking, 240s handler timeout, dedup by review ID).
2. Selects reviews at or below the threshold, sorted by rating.
3. Builds the pitch (French by default) and an HTML report stored in the run's key-value store with a public record URL.

### Terms

Public review data only. Keep volumes polite; Google Maps scraping sits uneasily with Google's ToS.

AI-agent ready, API + MCP ready.

# Actor input Schema

## `placeUrls` (type: `array`):

Google Maps place URLs (/maps/place/...) of the prospects to analyze

## `query` (type: `string`):

Google Maps search, e.g. 'restaurants Esch-sur-Alzette' — takes the first maxPlaces results. Ignored if placeUrls is non-empty.

## `maxPlaces` (type: `integer`):

How many prospects to analyze

## `maxReviewsPerPlace` (type: `integer`):

How many recent reviews to scan per business when looking for the worst

## `worstThreshold` (type: `integer`):

Reviews at or below this rating are included in the pitch report

## `mode` (type: `string`):

generate = scrape + pitch + delivery. check-engagement = IMAP reply watch only (no Maps scraping, runs even under Google rate-limit)

## `telemetryEndpoint` (type: `string`):

Base URL of our tracking receiver (e.g. https://track.example.com). Embeds an HMAC-signed 1px pixel in each HTML report; opens trigger CONVERSION\_RECORDED.

## `vertical` (type: `string`):

Sector template for pitch/report: chr (hotels/restaurants), immobilier, sante, artisanat

## `emailMap` (type: `object`):

Mapping place name or Maps URL -> recipient email for outbound delivery. Only used when sendApproval is true.

## `smtpUser` (type: `string`):

Gmail address used to send reports (requires an app password). Secret input.

## `smtpPassword` (type: `string`):

Gmail app password for the SMTP user. Secret input, never logged.

## `sendApproval` (type: `boolean`):

Explicit approval gate: without it, NO email is ever sent (reports are generated only)

## `maxEmailsPerRun` (type: `integer`):

Rate limit: maximum reports emailed in one run (plus 20s inter-send delay and a 20/day global cap)

## `dryRun` (type: `boolean`):

Testing mode: skips report publishing and billing events

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

A residential proxy is strongly recommended — Google Maps blocks datacenter IPs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "placeUrls": [],
  "maxPlaces": 5,
  "maxReviewsPerPlace": 15,
  "worstThreshold": 3,
  "mode": "generate",
  "vertical": "chr",
  "sendApproval": false,
  "maxEmailsPerRun": 5,
  "dryRun": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `prospects` (type: `string`):

One item per analyzed business: worst reviews, generated pitch, report URL

## `reports` (type: `string`):

Shareable HTML pitch reports, one record per business

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("travelmonitorlab/review-pitch-generator").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("travelmonitorlab/review-pitch-generator").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 '{}' |
apify call travelmonitorlab/review-pitch-generator --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,travelmonitorlab/review-pitch-generator"
        }
    }
}

```

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/Kp1aOIdPZ63RcaZwj/builds/1aatvhQhim9fctDxb/openapi.json