What this robot does
Yelp is the definitive platform for discovering and evaluating local service businesses, with listings covering restaurants, contractors, salons, lawyers, medical practices, fitness studios, and virtually every other consumer-facing service category. A Yelp search results page is a structured snapshot of the local competitive landscape: business names ranked by relevance or rating, star ratings calculated from user reviews, total review counts, business descriptions, full street addresses, direct links to Yelp profile pages, and result position numbers. For businesses, this data reveals exactly who you're competing against and how you stack up on the metrics customers care about most.
For agencies doing competitive analysis for clients, Yelp data maps the local landscape before any strategy is set. For sales teams, service business listings are qualified leads.
For researchers, Yelp data quantifies service business density and quality across geographies. This robot extracts structured business data from Yelp search results pages.
What Yelp business listing data extraction delivers:
- ✓ Local competitive intelligence: Extract all businesses in your category and city. See exactly who you're competing against, how their ratings compare to yours, and whether high review counts signal established brand trust you need to address.
- ✓ Lead generation for B2B services: Local service businesses are prime prospects for marketing agencies, POS vendors, and B2B software companies. Extract Yelp listings in your target category to build qualified prospect lists with business names and contact information.
- ✓ Reputation benchmarking: Your Yelp star rating exists in context. Extract competitor ratings and review volumes to understand where you genuinely stand - a 4.2 rating means something very different in a market where competitors average 4.8.
- ✓ Market entry assessment: Opening a new location or entering a new city? Extract Yelp search results to quantify how many competitors exist, their quality distribution, and whether the market has room for a differentiated new entrant.
| Position | Business Name | Yelp Profile | Stars | Reviews |
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| #1 | Downtown Plumbing Co. | yelp.com/biz/downtown-plumbing | 4.8 | 247 |
| #2 | Expert HVAC Services | yelp.com/biz/expert-hvac-services | 4.6 | 189 |
| #3 | Premier Electrical Works | yelp.com/biz/premier-electrical | 4.9 | 312 |
| #4 | Quality Home Repairs | yelp.com/biz/quality-home-repairs | 4.5 | 156 |
| #5 | Professional Contractors LLC | yelp.com/biz/professional-contractors | 4.7 | 203 |
How to scrape Yelp search results in 4 steps
No Yelp account needed. The robot reads public search result pages and extracts every listed business's data.
- A free Browse AI account (no credit card required).
- A Yelp search results URL for the service category and location you want to extract.
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Sign up for free
Create your Browse AI account in under a minute. No credit card required. You will find this prebuilt robot in the robot library ready to use.
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Search Yelp for the service category and location you want, then copy the URL
Go to Yelp and search for a service type - 'plumbers', 'personal trainers', 'divorce attorneys' - in your target city or neighborhood. Apply any filters you need (rating, price, distance). Copy the search results URL.
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Run the robot
Click run. The robot reads the Yelp search results and extracts position, business names, Yelp profile links, images, descriptions, addresses, star ratings, and review counts for every listing on the page.
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Connect integrations or export your data
Your local business intelligence is structured and ready. Export to a spreadsheet to sort by rating or review count, import into a CRM for sales outreach, calculate average ratings across a market, or map competitor locations to visualize the competitive landscape.
What can you do with Yelp business listing data?
Yelp listing data supports competitive research, lead generation, and local market analysis:
- Competitive landscape mapping: Extract all businesses in your service category within your city. Understand how many direct competitors exist, their relative quality based on ratings, and how you rank among them.
- Sales prospecting for B2B services: Marketing agencies, booking software vendors, and local business tools need Yelp-listed businesses as customers. Extract listings to build targeted outreach lists with business names, categories, and contact details.
- Franchise location scouting: Evaluate markets before opening new locations. Extract Yelp data across categories in a target city to assess competition density, quality levels, and pricing norms.
- Review strategy benchmarking: Extract competitor review counts and ratings over time. Track how fast competitors are accumulating reviews and identify businesses with growing Yelp momentum.
- Pricing strategy research: Yelp's price tier ($-$$$$) is self-reported by businesses. Extract price ranges across your category to understand where the market prices itself and calibrate your own positioning.
- Local sponsorship targeting: Event organizers and community platforms look for local business sponsors. Extract Yelp listings to identify established, well-reviewed local businesses for sponsorship outreach.
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Local business owners
Understand the competitive landscape in your category. Extract Yelp search results to benchmark your ratings against every competitor in your market.
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Sales development reps
Build qualified local business lead lists. Extract Yelp listings in target service categories for outbound prospecting campaigns.
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Marketing agencies
Research client markets before strategy development. Extract Yelp data for competitive audits and local search positioning analysis.
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Franchise operators
Evaluate new markets before opening locations. Extract Yelp competition data for location scouting and feasibility assessment.
Each business listing in Yelp search results provides:
| Field | What it contains |
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| Position | Ranking position of the business in search results (#1, #2, #3, etc.). |
| Name | Listed name of the business. |
| Yelp Profile | Direct URL link to the business's Yelp profile page. |
| Image | Business photo or logo thumbnail. |
| Description | Business description or tagline from Yelp listing. |
| Address | Full business street address and location. |
| Stars | Average user rating (1.0 to 5.0 stars). |
| Review Count | Total number of user reviews. |
Local service business data for competitive intelligence, lead generation, and market research.
Frequently asked questions
Does this work for restaurant searches as well as service businesses?
Yes. The robot extracts whatever Yelp search results the URL contains. It works for any Yelp category - restaurants, services, shopping, nightlife, health, and more.
How many listings can I extract from a single Yelp search page?
Yelp typically displays around 10-30 listings per search results page. For comprehensive coverage, run the robot across multiple pages of results or across different filtered searches.
Can I target businesses in specific neighborhoods rather than whole cities?
Yes. Yelp lets you filter by neighborhood in many cities. Select the neighborhood filter before copying your search URL, and the robot extracts only businesses in that area.
Build complete local market intelligence with these business data robots:
- Google Maps scraper - Extract business listings from Google Maps to compare with Yelp data and build more complete local lead lists.
- Yellow Pages scraper - Pull business listings from Yellow Pages for an additional source of local service business contacts.
- Yelp service details scraper - Extract individual user reviews from a specific Yelp business page for reputation analysis.
Map your local competitive landscape
Extract Yelp business listings with ratings, review counts, and categories to power market research and lead generation.
