G2 Explorer Actor

Overview

This actor scrapes product data from G2.com (formerly G2 Crowd), a peer-to-peer review platform for business software. It extracts product information, reviews, and search results.

Key Features

• Multiple Scraping Modes: Collect product reviews, product listings, or detailed product information.
• Flexible Query Input: Accepts product slugs or search keywords.
• Configurable Limits: Control the number of results per product.
• Structured Output: Returns clean JSON data with review content, metadata, and user information.

How to Use

Input Parameters

Configure the actor using these parameters:

Usage Examples

Get product reviews:

{
  "query": "apify",
  "limit": 10
}

Search for products:

{
  "query": "Web scraping tools",
  "mode": "product",
  "limit": 10
}

Get single product information:

{
  "query": "apify",
  "mode": "product_info"
}

Notes:
- Find product slugs from G2 URLs (e.g., https://www.g2.com/apify/reviews → slug is apify)
- The limit applies per product slug. With 3 products and limit: 10, you'll get up to 30 results total.

Input/Output

Output Structure

Reviews include:
- Review text with answers to standard questions (likes, dislikes, recommendations, problems solved)
- Dates (published, submitted, updated)
- Reviewer metadata (name, role, industry, location)
- Product identifiers (ID, slug)
- Rating score (1-5)

Sample Output

{
  "answers": [
    "First, Apify offers a number of ready solutions...",
    "Nothing really. It took me some time...",
    "-",
    "I am scraping several websites to power my lead generation process..."
  ],
  "date": {
    "published": "2022-08-18T09:05:00.496-05:00",
    "submitted": "2022-08-18T05:51:54.968-05:00",
    "updated": "2022-08-18T05:51:55.384-05:00"
  },
  "id": "6996026",
  "industry": "Computer Software",
  "location": {
    "country": "Poland",
    "primary": "EMEA",
    "region": "Europe"
  },
  "name": "Lucjan K.",
  "product_id": 74085,
  "product_slug": "apify",
  "role": "User",
  "score": 5,
  "segment": "small-business",
  "type": "text"
}

Support

For issues or suggestions, reach out to the developer.