How to Scrape Yelp: Businesses, Reviews, and Ratings

How to Scrape Yelp: Businesses, Reviews, and Ratings Yelp data is invaluable for market research, lead generation, and competitive analysis. This guide shows you how to extract business listings, reviews, and ratings programmatically. Use Cases Lead generation : Find businesses in specific categories and locations Reputation monitoring : Track reviews for your business or competitors Market analysis : Compare ratings and review counts across categories Sentiment analysis : Analyze customer feedback at scale Setup pip install requests beautifulsoup4 pandas Business Search Scraper import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import json import time import re class YelpScraper : def __init__ ( self , api_key = None ): self . session = requests . Session () self . proxy_key = api_key self . base_url = " https://www.yelp.com " def fetch ( self , url ): if self . proxy_key : proxy_url = f " http://api.scraperapi.com?api_key= { self . proxy_key } &url= { url } " return self . session . get (