How to Extract Yelp Data for Business Listings?

What is Yelp?

Yelp is the leading professional directory site on the web. With more than 90 Million monthly guests through their mobile app & website, consumers and businesses themselves are adding important data to the stage each day.

But how do you quickly and accurately gather this data in a suitable format? Yelp does not have an easy “export” feature to gather all the company-related data you may require.

Web Scraping and Scraping Intelligence

Web extraction allows you to simply choose any content on a webpage and scrape it into an API or spreadsheet. This way, you can create massive lists of high-quality leads in minutes.

If you would like to study more about extracting, learn our guide on what web extracting is and how it’s generally used for.

You can easily and quickly scrape Yelp data, we use, a powerful & free web extractor with very valuable features. You need to be sure to download it for free before start using the web Scraping project.

Extract Yelp Business Listings

So let’s get extracting yelp data. For. E.g., let us assume that we are a supplier of use-and-throw coffee cups in Toronto. We are interested in creating the structure of a list of coffee shops in Toronto with the help of their address, other details, and phone number.

Getting Started

• Initially, we need to locate the URL for Yelp’s outcome page for a preferred keyword like a coffee shop.
• You need to install scraping tool and setup our extracting project.
• In Scraping Intelligence, you need to enter the URL & click on New Project that we’ve selected.

Extracting Company Contact Details

• The page is open not and you will able to create your initial selection. Click on the first company name to select that. It will turn to green to identify it has been selected.
• The remaining company names will turn yellow. Click on the other company name to select the rest of them. They should have turn into green now.
• On the left side, retitle your company name.
• After that, you need to click on the (+) sign next to the company name and choose the Relative Select command. Click on the company name and on the mobile number next to it (An arrow will look like linking the two).
• Repeat step 4 to extract the company address and area also.

Extracting Reviews and Ratings

Scrape review numbers and rating scores from Yelp will need some advanced Scraping tools. Yelp’s website is coded in such a way that it may create a simpler web extractor not work.

We can effortlessly tackle this and we will create it a snap by

walking you over the procedure.

• We will again use Relative Select. We need to click on the company name first, and then you can start rating itself.
• You can freely rename the ratings.
• You might have noticed that Scraping Intelligence does not scrape any data. So we will drive to scrape command settings on the left-hand side.
• We utilize to scrape command and choose “aria-label Attribute”. This will update the project with accurate details.
• Last of all, we utilize Relative selection on previous time to extract the number of reviews for each company.

Dealing with Pagination

We prefer to extract the whole page of outcomes of your keyword. Then, we will initiate it to extract the next pair of webpages of outcomes.

• On the left-hand side, you need to click on the (+) sign for page After that, you need to use the select command.
• With the selected command, you need to click on the “Next” link at the end of the Yelp webpage.
• We can scrape the URL & link text. We utilize the image next for other selections and you need to remove 2 items. You can easily rename the selection to the next step.
• Use (+) sign next to select and pick the command.
• A pop-up will occur like asking if this is the “Next” key. You need to click on “Yes” and enter the number or you can click as many as time you need to. As of now, we will do 5 in demand to extract the initial 6 pages of the outcome.

Running your extractor

Now you are setting up your extracting plan, it’s a period to route it!

Use to Acquire Data key on the left sidebar & click on Route to start extracting the job. Depending on how many webpages you have selected, the time is to be completed differently. In our circumstance, 4 pages were extracted within a minute.

Web Extracting & Lead Generation on Yelp

Lead creation with web extracting unlocks new possibilities for your company. Setting details composed of the aggregates of dollars consumed on listing create lead creation business or perhaps you will be utilizing this information to build your next awesome project and API with it.

If you want to build anything wonderful with the help of Scraping Intelligence let us know your requirements.

About the author

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Zoltan Bettenbuk

Zoltan Bettenbuk is the CTO of ScraperAPI - helping thousands of companies get access to the data they need. He’s a well-known expert in data processing and web scraping. With more than 15 years of experience in software development, product management, and leadership, Zoltan frequently publishes his insights on our blog as well as on Twitter and LinkedIn.