What this robot does
Every Yelp business page is a concentrated intelligence file on a local business. Beyond the search results summary, an individual Yelp business page reveals the business name, aggregate star rating and total review count, primary phone number, complete street address, website URL, service type, business description, and - crucially - the full text of customer reviews with their star ratings and reviewer names. Yelp's reviews carry outsized influence: 97% of consumers read online reviews for local businesses, and Yelp reviews rank highly in Google search results for local queries.
For businesses monitoring their own Yelp reputation, extracting review text and tracking sentiment over time is critical for identifying service issues before they compound. For competitors doing market research, Yelp reviews expose exactly what customers love and hate about rival businesses.
For franchise operators evaluating expansion markets, individual business profiles across a city reveal quality levels and customer satisfaction benchmarks. This robot extracts the complete data profile from a single Yelp business page - far deeper than the search results view.
What Yelp business detail extraction enables:
- ✓ Reputation monitoring depth: Extract your full Yelp business profile including all reviews, not just the aggregate rating. Identify specific complaints, recurring praise, and reviewer sentiment patterns that the star rating alone obscures.
- ✓ Competitor service intelligence: Extract competitor Yelp pages for a detailed understanding of their hours, pricing signals, business attributes, and what customers say about them. Surface specific weaknesses your business can exploit.
- ✓ Franchise and multi-location benchmarking: Extract individual location pages across a franchise system. Compare ratings, review sentiment, hours, and business attributes to identify high and low performers in the network.
- ✓ Local market quality assessment: Extract Yelp profiles for all businesses in a category within a city. Build a quality map showing how customer satisfaction is distributed across a local market before entering or expanding.
| Field | Data |
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| Name | Joe's Italian Restaurant |
| Rating | 4.5 |
| Reviews Count | 287 |
| Phone | (555) 123-4567 |
| Address | 1234 Main St, San Francisco, CA 94102 |
How to scrape a Yelp business detail page in 4 steps
No Yelp account required. The robot reads any public Yelp business page and extracts its complete data profile.
- A free Browse AI account (no credit card required).
- A Yelp individual business page URL (yelp.com/biz/[business-name]).
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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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Navigate to the Yelp business page you want to extract and copy the URL
Go to Yelp and find the specific business you want to research. Open its full business detail page - not the search results - and copy the URL. This gives you hours, contact info, categories, attributes, and the reviews section.
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Run the robot
Click run. The robot reads the Yelp business page and extracts the business name, star rating, total review count, phone number, address, website URL, service type, business description, and the top customer reviews with their individual star ratings, text, reviewer names, and topics.
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Connect integrations or export your data
Your business intelligence is structured and ready. Export to a spreadsheet for competitive analysis, aggregate review themes to prioritize service improvements, or track your own Yelp profile over time by scheduling regular extractions to monitor reputation changes.
What can you do with Yelp business detail data?
Individual business page data supports reputation management, competitive research, and local market analysis:
- Reputation management: Extract your own Yelp page on a schedule. Track new reviews as they appear, monitor rating trends over time, and identify recurring complaints for operational improvement.
- Competitor analysis: Extract Yelp profiles for your top competitors. Study their hours, pricing signals, category labels, and what customers say - discover service gaps you can fill and positioning opportunities.
- Local service quality benchmarking: Extract Yelp detail pages for businesses in a category across a city. Compare rating distributions, review volumes, and sentiment to understand the quality landscape before entering.
- Franchise performance monitoring: Multi-location operators can extract individual location pages to compare customer satisfaction scores, review sentiment, and hours compliance across the franchise system.
- Sales lead enrichment: Extract Yelp business pages for prospects. Append phone numbers, hours, categories, and review data to your lead records for better-informed sales conversations.
- Market entry research: Considering a new geographic market? Extract Yelp profiles across your category in that city to assess competitive intensity, customer satisfaction levels, and service quality gaps.
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Business owners
Monitor and manage your Yelp reputation proactively. Extract your full business profile and reviews to track sentiment and respond to feedback.
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Local SEO professionals
Audit local business profiles for clients. Extract Yelp business data for citation accuracy, category optimization, and competitive review analysis.
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Sales teams
Enrich local business prospect records. Extract Yelp profiles to append contact details, hours, and reputation data to your lead database.
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Franchise operators
Benchmark performance across your locations. Extract individual Yelp pages for each location to compare ratings, review volume, and customer sentiment.
Each Yelp individual business page provides:
| Field | What it contains |
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| Name | Official Yelp listing name. |
| Rating | Average star rating (1 to 5). |
| Reviews Count | Total number of Yelp reviews. |
| Phone | Primary contact phone number. |
| Address | Full street address. |
| Website | Business website link. |
| Service | Primary service category. |
| About | Business description and summary. |
| Reviewer Name | Name of the review author. |
| Review text | Full text of individual customer reviews. |
| Topic | Review topic or subject matter. |
Comprehensive local business intelligence for reputation management, competitive analysis, and market research.
Frequently asked questions
How is this different from the Yelp search results scraper?
The Yelp search results scraper (page 219) extracts summary data - name, rating, snippet - for multiple businesses from a search results page. This robot extracts the complete profile of a single business: service type, business description, contact details, and individual review text with reviewer information.
Can I extract all reviews or just the top ones?
This robot extracts the reviews visible on the business page. Yelp displays a selection of top reviews by default. To access additional reviews, navigate to the dedicated reviews section of the business page before copying the URL.
Does this work for Yelp business pages in other countries?
Yes. Yelp operates in multiple countries. Navigate to any public Yelp business page regardless of location and paste the URL - the robot extracts whatever the page displays.
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