I’ve tried scraping Yelp before, and honestly, it’s a pain. Yelp’s anti-scraping is no joke. I used a yelp scraper tool called Octoparse, and it worked okay for a bit, but I got blocked pretty fast.
Proxies are a must if you’re serious about it. I’d recommend rotating residential proxies to avoid detection. Also, make sure to slow down your requests—Yelp flags anything that looks like a bot.
Good luck, but honestly, it might be easier to just use their API if you can.
Proxies are a must if you’re serious about it. I’d recommend rotating residential proxies to avoid detection. Also, make sure to slow down your requests—Yelp flags anything that looks like a bot.
Good luck, but honestly, it might be easier to just use their API if you can.