Bark Reviews Scraper

An Apify actor that automatically extracts customer reviews and ratings from business profile pages on Bark.com. It's designed for jobs, automation, and lead generation tasks, turning manual data collection into a structured, scalable process.

Overview

This scraper targets individual business profile URLs on Bark.com, a UK-based services marketplace. It pulls detailed review data—including ratings, text, author info, and dates—into a structured dataset. This is useful for competitive analysis, reputation monitoring, or aggregating customer sentiment data across service industries.

Key Features

• Targeted Extraction: Scrapes reviews from specific Bark.com business profile pages.
• Structured Output: Returns clean JSON data with consistent fields for each review.
• Configurable Limits: Control the number of reviews extracted per URL (max_items_per_url).
• Proxy Support: Built-in configuration for Apify Proxy (including residential proxies) to avoid blocks.
• Error Handling: Configurable retry logic (max_retries_per_url) for handling failed requests.

How to Use

Provide the actor with a JSON input configuration. The core requirement is a list of valid Bark.com business profile URLs.

Input/Output

Input Format

The actor expects a JSON object with the following parameters:

{
  "max_retries_per_url": 2,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "SG"
  },
  "max_items_per_url": 20,
  "urls": [
    "https://www.bark.com/en/gb/b/cigma-accounting-ltd/7VlN/",
    "https://www.bark.com/en/gb/company/sak-accountants-limited/0BYzZ/"
  ]
}

• urls: Required. Array of Bark.com business profile URLs.
• max_items_per_url: Sets a limit for reviews scraped per business page.
• max_retries_per_url: Number of retry attempts for a URL if a request fails.
• proxy: Configuration for Apify Proxy. Using residential proxies (RESIDENTIAL) is recommended to mimic real user traffic and prevent blocking.

Output Data

The actor outputs a dataset where each item represents a single review. The data is structured as a JSON array with objects containing fields like:

[
  {
    "author": "Christopher Bond",
    "date_published": "2024-11-21",
    "rating": 5.0,
    "review_platform": "TrustPilot",
    "review_txt": "At first, I was slightly reluctant...",
    "business_response": "Thank you for your review...",
    "url": "https://www.bark.com/en/gb/b/cigma-accounting-ltd/7VlN/"
  }
]

Typical fields include author, date_published, rating, review_txt, business_response, review_platform, and the source url.

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