Yelp Reviews
Monitor what customers say about your locations or a competitor's, check whether owners answer complaints, or feed review text into sentiment analysis. Give it Yelp business pages (or business IDs) and it returns one JSON row per review: star rating, the full text in its original language, date, useful/funny/cool votes, reactions, the owner's public reply with its date, and the business's overall rating and review count.
Sample output
Example row It shows the shape of the output. The values are made up, not taken from a run.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| reviewId | Yelp___abc123 |
| platform | yelp |
| productName | Katz's Delicatessen |
| date | 2026-10-09 |
| text | Great pastrami, long line, worth it. |
| ratingOverall | 4 |
| language | en |
| helpfulVotes | 2 |
| vendorResponse | Hi [name], thank you for the kind words. |
| extras | {"reactions":{"helpful":2,"thanks":0,"loveThis":1,"ohNo":0},"vendorResponseDate":"2026-10-10"} |
Call it from code or from your agent
This is the request. Small runs answer in the same call; large ones return a run ID.
curl -X POST https://scrapers-api.arcadiumdata.io/v1/scrapers/yelp-reviews/runs \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ARCADIUM_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"input": {
"startUrls": [
{
"url": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/tartine-bakery-san-francisco-3"
}
],
"maxReviewsPerBusiness": 20,
"sort": "DATE_DESC"
}
}'What each row holds
Every row says what it is in rowType: review rows are charged, coverage and error rows are free.
The review 28 fields
| Field | Type | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| reviewId | string | Stable review id in the form '<Platform>___<native id>'. Use it to deduplicate between runs. |
| reviewIdSource | 'native' when the id comes from the site, 'derived' when it is a hash of the content (less stable). | |
| reviewUrl | Link to the single review, null when the site has none. | |
| title | Review headline, null when the site has none. | |
| text | string | Review text in the language it was written in. Null when the review has no text. |
| pros | What the reviewer liked, for sites that ask separately (Capterra, TrustRadius, Glassdoor, Booking). Null otherwise. | |
| cons | What the reviewer disliked, for sites that ask separately. Null otherwise. | |
| ratingOverall | number | Overall rating on a 0 to 5 scale (Booking: its 1-10 score divided by 2, original in extras.score10). Null when missing. |
| ratings | Sub-ratings as an object, e.g. { value: 5, cleanliness: 4 }. Keys depend on the site; empty object when there are none. | |
| date | string | Date the review was written, ISO format yyyy-mm-dd. Null if unknown. |
| reviewerRole | Job title or role the reviewer states. No names. Null if not given. | |
| reviewerIndustry | Industry the reviewer states. Null if not given. | |
| reviewerCompanySize | Company size bracket of the reviewer, e.g. '51-200 employees'. Null if not given. | |
| reviewerTimeUsed | How long the reviewer used the product, as the site words it. Null if not given. | |
| switchedFrom | Product the reviewer switched from, null if not given. | |
| alternativesConsidered | Alternatives the reviewer considered, comma-separated, null if not given. | |
| reasonForChoosing | Why the reviewer chose this product, free text, null if not given. | |
| reasonForSwitching | Why the reviewer left the previous product, free text, null if not given. | |
| adviceToOthers | Advice the reviewer gives others (Glassdoor: advice to management), null if not given. | |
| incentivized | True when the site marks the review as incentivized (for example a gift card). Null when the site does not say. | |
| incentive | The site's raw incentive label, null if none. | |
| reviewerVerified | True when the site marks the review as verified. Null when the site does not say. | |
| vendorResponse | string | Reply of the owner, vendor, developer or employer, null when there is none. |
| helpfulVotes | number | Number of helpful or useful votes, null when the site shows none. |
| language | string | Language of the review text as a two-letter code, null if unknown. |
| country | Country of the reviewer or the storefront where it applies (lower case code), otherwise null. No personal data. | |
| extras | object | Site-specific extras, e.g. trip type, visit date, translated text, photo URLs, owner reply date. Keys are listed in the README. |
| scrapedAt | ISO timestamp of when the row was collected. |
What it is about 5 fields
| Field | Type | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| platform | string | Source site, lower case, e.g. 'tripadvisor', 'capterra', 'googleplay', 'appstore'. |
| productName | string | Name of the reviewed hotel, business, product or app. |
| productUrl | Page of the reviewed hotel, business, product or app on the source site. | |
| entityId | The site's own id of the reviewed entity (place id, product id, app id). | |
| product | Summary of the reviewed entity repeated on each row: { platform, entityId, name, url, rating, reviewCount, category, vendor, website }. rating and reviewCount are the site's overall figures. |
Coverage rows, free 9 fields
| Field | Type | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| stated | Coverage rows: total the site states for the entity, null when it does not say. | |
| delivered | Coverage rows: number of rows delivered for the entity in this run. | |
| skippedSeen | Coverage rows: items skipped because an earlier run already delivered them (only-new mode). | |
| duplicates | Coverage rows: repeats the site returned that were dropped. | |
| stopReason | Coverage rows: why reading stopped. limit (your maximum reached), end (no more pages), dateFrom (older than your date), onlyNew (reached already delivered items), budget (run charge limit), cap (site-side depth limit), error (ended by a failure), filter (ended with a filter active). | |
| capSource | Coverage rows: who limited the result, 'user' (your maximum or budget) or 'site' (a limit of the website). Null if nobody. | |
| shortfall | Coverage rows: true when the result may be incomplete: fewer rows than the site states with no maximum or filter set, an error, or the site's paging changed during the run. shortfallReason says which. | |
| shortfallReason | Coverage rows: why shortfall is true. below_stated (fewer rows than the site states, no maximum or filter), error (ended by a failure), unstable_paging (the site changed its list while it was read, so rows inside the range read may be missing even though your maximum or date ended the run). Null when shortfall is false. | |
| pagingGaps | Coverage rows: number of pages the site served inconsistently that could not be repaired by re-reading. Above 0 means shortfallReason unstable_paging. |
Error rows, free 3 fields
| Field | Type | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| input | Error and coverage rows: the input (URL, id or search text) the row is about. Example: 'https://www.example.com/page'. | |
| code | Error rows: machine-readable reason. One of invalid_input (fix the input), not_found (page does not exist), blocked (site refused, retry later), unavailable (temporary error, retry later), filter_unsupported (the filter cannot be applied on this site), no_match (name search found nothing). | |
| message | Error rows: short human-readable explanation. Do not parse it, use code. |
What it can't do
- It does not return reviewer names, profile links or photos.
- It reads only what the site shows to a visitor without an account.
- Reviews the site has removed or hidden are not returned.
What you send
Every field is optional. The example request above fills the ones shown here.
| Field | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| startUrls | array | Yelp business pages, for example https://www.yelp.com/biz/tartine-bakery-san-francisco-3. Any Yelp domain works. Add this, business IDs, or both. Also read from biz_urls or directUrls (other Yelp actors' names). |
| maxReviewsPerBusiness | integer | Maximum number of reviews to collect for each business (default 100 when omitted). There is no depth limit: a business with 9,000 reviews can be read to the end. Example: 100. Also read from reviews_limit or maxReviewsPerUrl. |
| sort | string (one of 6) | Order of the reviews. Newest first enables the date filter and the only-new-reviews mode. With several languages, newest first merges them into one list ordered by date; other orders read one language after another. |
More options (12)
| Field | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| businessIds | array | Yelp business IDs (22 characters, for example zLOmLckX_sNmhUwMW6yQMg) or aliases (the last part of the business URL). Use this instead of URLs, or next to them. Also read from biz_ids. |
| ratings | array of string | Only reviews with these star ratings (1 to 5). Leave empty for all. |
| languages | array | Two-letter language codes such as en or de. Leave empty to read every language the business has reviews in, in one run. Also read from reviews_language or language (one code; empty = all). |
| keywords | array | Only reviews whose text contains at least one of these words or phrases (case-insensitive). The filter is applied after reading, and you only pay for the reviews that match. Example: ["parking", "vegan"]. |
| dateFrom | string | Only reviews on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD, or 30 days / 2 months / 1 year). Reading stops early with the newest first sort. Example: 2026-01-01. |
| onlyNewReviews | boolean | Skip reviews delivered by earlier runs that used the same state key, and do not charge for them. Forces the newest first sort.Default false |
| stateKey | string | Name of the incremental state (letters, digits and dashes). Change it to start over. Example: weekly-monitoring.Default "default" |
| includeBusinessSummary | boolean | Add one free row per business with its overall rating, review count, star histogram and review count per language.Default false |
| includeReviewPhotos | boolean | Add the links of photos attached to each review in extras.photoUrls. Off by default because photos can show people.Default false |
| includeErrorRows | boolean | Add one free row per business that could not be read, with the reason.Default true |
| includeCoverageRows | boolean | Add one free row per business: how many reviews Yelp reports, how many you received, and why reading stopped.Default true |
| markEdited | boolean | With 'Only new reviews': also deliver reviews seen before whose text changed in the last 7 days, marked extras.changeType 'edited'. Edited reviews are charged like new ones.Default true |
Questions people ask before they top up
What does a run cost?
Each review costs $0.00025, which is $0.25 per 1,000. A run that delivers rows also pays a $0.001 start fee.
A run that returns rows costs at least $0.005, start fee included. Failed runs, empty runs and duplicate rows cost $0. You set the most a run may cost, and it stops there.
Can I get only the reviews added since my last run?
Yes, with the onlyNewReviews option. Skip reviews delivered by earlier runs that used the same state key, and do not charge for them. Forces the newest first sort.
Do you ever return personal data?
Not about reviewers or users. Reviewer names, profile links, photos, emails and phone numbers are not collected. When a name appears inside a review or a reply, it is replaced with [name].
Job titles and company sizes stay where a site shows them, because they describe a role rather than a person. On YouTube, channel names and URLs are the publisher labels YouTube shows publicly.
How fresh is the data?
Each run reads the live site when you start it, so rows are as current as the site itself.
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