# 🧩 Capterra Scraper (`scraper-engine/capterra-scraper`) Actor

🧩 Capterra Scraper extracts structured software reviews & pricing data from Capterra. 🚀 Great for B2B research, lead gen, competitive analysis & market insights—fast, accurate, and SEO-friendly. 📊✨

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scraper-engine/capterra-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Scraper Engine](https://apify.com/scraper-engine) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.99 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 🧩 Capterra Scraper

Extract clean, structured data from **Capterra** — software products, ratings, pricing, features, deployment & support options, and real client reviews — straight into a tidy dataset you can export to JSON, CSV, or Excel. 🚀

Paste a **product detail** URL or a **category/listing** URL and get back fully normalized records. Reviews can be attached to each product, or pulled on their own in a dedicated reviews-only mode.

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### ✨ Why Choose This Actor?

- 🧩 **Two URL types in one** — product detail pages *and* category/listing pages.
- 💬 **Rich reviews** — pros/cons, per-criterion ratings, reviewer profile, timestamps and vendor responses.
- 📦 **Bulk friendly** — drop in as many URLs as you like; results are de-duplicated automatically.
- ⚡ **Fast & proxy-free** — fetches over plain HTTP (no browser), works straight out of the box with **no proxy required**.
- 💾 **Live results** — every product/review is saved the moment it's scraped, so you never lose a partial run.

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### 🎯 Key Features

| Feature | Description |
|--------|-------------|
| 🎯 Product detail | Paste a `https://www.capterra.com/p/<id>/<slug>/` URL to scrape a single product. |
| 📂 Category / listing | Paste a `https://www.capterra.com/<category>-software/` URL to enumerate products across listing pages. |
| 💬 Reviews | Toggle `includeReviews` to attach reviews, or `reviewsOnly` to output reviews alone. |
| 🔢 Max items | Cap the total number of items saved across all URLs. |
| 📄 Pagination | `endPage` (listings) and `endPageForReviews` (reviews) bound how far each goes. |
| 🛡️ Proxy policy | **Optional** — works with no proxy. A direct → datacenter → residential ladder is kept only as a fallback; a custom proxy, if supplied, is tried first. Logged clearly. |

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### 📥 Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `startUrls` | array | One or more Capterra product/listing URLs. **Required.** |
| `includeReviews` | boolean | Attach reviews to each product. Default `false`. |
| `reviewsOnly` | boolean | Output only review records. Default `false`. |
| `maxItems` | integer | Max items saved across all URLs. Empty = unlimited. |
| `endPage` | integer | Last listing page per URL. Empty = until empty. |
| `endPageForReviews` | integer | Last reviews page per product. Empty = all. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify proxy settings powering the fallback ladder. |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.capterra.com/p/162035/Filestage/",
    "https://www.capterra.com/business-intelligence-software/"
  ],
  "includeReviews": true,
  "reviewsOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 10,
  "endPage": 1,
  "endPageForReviews": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}
```

***

### 📤 Output

Each product record (reviews nested when enabled):

```json
{
  "productId": "162035",
  "name": "Filestage",
  "productUrl": "https://www.capterra.com/p/162035/Filestage/",
  "logoUrl": "https://.../ProductLogo/....png",
  "reviewCount": 102,
  "overallRating": 4.71,
  "easeOfUseRating": 4.7,
  "customerServiceRating": 4.7,
  "valueForMoneyRating": 4.6,
  "longDescription": "Filestage is the online proofing software ...",
  "pricingDetails": {
    "startingPrice": "€199",
    "pricingModel": "Flat Rate",
    "paymentFrequency": "Per Month",
    "hasFreeTrial": true,
    "hasFreeVersion": true
  },
  "features": [{ "title": "Collaboration Tools", "rating": 4.65, "reviewCount": 26 }],
  "training": [{ "value": "5", "label": "Documentation", "selected": true }],
  "support": [{ "value": "1", "label": "Email/Help Desk", "selected": true }],
  "targetCompanySizes": [{ "value": "2", "label": "2-10", "selected": true }],
  "deploymentOptions": [{ "value": "1", "label": "Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based", "selected": true }],
  "category": { "name": "Collaboration Software", "slug": "/collaboration-software" },
  "relatedProducts": [{ "productId": "147657", "name": "monday.com", "overallRating": 4.6 }],
  "reviewUrl": "https://www.capterra.com/p/162035/Filestage/reviews/",
  "reviews": [
    {
      "reviewId": "3080815",
      "title": "The best tool on the market",
      "writtenOn": "September 10, 2021",
      "prosText": "Filestage offers only the features you really need ...",
      "consText": "Due the features are developed for the needs ...",
      "overallRating": "5.0",
      "reviewer": { "fullName": "Erich W.", "jobTitle": "CEO", "companySize": "11-50 employees" }
    }
  ]
}
```

In **reviews-only** mode each row is a single review object.

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### 🚀 How to Use (Apify Console)

1. Log in at https://console.apify.com → **Actors**.
2. Open the **Capterra Scraper** actor.
3. Paste your Capterra product/listing URLs and configure the toggles (reviews, max items, pagination, proxy).
4. Click **Start**.
5. Watch the logs in real time as products and reviews stream in.
6. Open the **Output** tab — switch between the **🧩 Products** and **⭐ Reviews** table views.
7. Export to JSON / CSV / XLSX.

### 🤖 Use via API

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<ACTOR_ID>/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"startUrls":["https://www.capterra.com/p/162035/Filestage/"],"includeReviews":true,"maxItems":10}'
```

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### 💡 Best Use Cases

- 📊 Build software-catalog datasets (pricing, ratings, features) for benchmarking.
- 🗣️ Aggregate client reviews for sentiment and ratings analysis.
- 🧭 Map categories and product coverage for market research.
- 🧪 Enrich product records with per-feature ratings and deployment/support options.

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### 💵 Pricing

This Actor uses **pay-per-event** billing: you are charged once per item saved to the dataset (`row_result`) — that's one product, or one review in reviews-only mode. You only pay for the data you actually get back.

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### ❓ FAQ

**Which URLs are supported?** Product detail (`/p/<id>/<slug>/`) and category/listing (`/<category>-software/`) pages. Capterra retired the `/services/*` section, so those URLs are skipped automatically.

**Do I need a proxy?** No. The Actor fetches Capterra over plain HTTP and works directly from Apify's servers with no proxy. The proxy ladder (direct → datacenter → residential) is only a fallback for the rare blocked request; a custom proxy, if supplied, is tried first.

**Will I lose data if the run stops early?** No. Every item is saved live as it's scraped.

***

### 🛟 Support and Feedback

Found a bug or need a tweak? Reach us at **dev.scraperengine@gmail.com** — we'd love to help. 🤝

***

### ⚖️ Legal

Data is collected only from **publicly available** Capterra pages. You are responsible for complying with applicable laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) and Capterra's Terms of Service.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

📥 Paste one or more Capterra URLs. Supports bulk input — add as many as you like.

✅ Supported URL types:
• 🎯 Product detail — e.g. https://www.capterra.com/p/162035/Filestage/
• 📂 Category / listing — e.g. https://www.capterra.com/business-intelligence-software/

## `includeReviews` (type: `boolean`):

📝 Attach real client reviews to each product record. Increases run time proportional to the number of review pages fetched.

## `reviewsOnly` (type: `boolean`):

📤 Output only review records (one row per review) and nothing else. Great for sentiment / ratings analysis.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

🎚️ How many items to save in total across ALL start URLs — products, or reviews in reviews-only mode. This is the main control for run size: set 100, 200, 500, etc. and the Actor pages through category listings as deep as needed to collect that many. Leave empty for unlimited.

## `endPage` (type: `integer`):

🛑 Optional hard cap on how many pages of each category/listing URL to read (applied per listing URL). Leave empty (recommended) and let 'Max items' decide how deep to page. Only set this if you specifically want to stop a listing after N pages.

## `endPageForReviews` (type: `integer`):

🛑 Last reviews page to read per product. Leave empty to read all review pages.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

🛡️ Optional. This Actor fetches Capterra over plain HTTP and works directly from Apify's servers — no proxy is required. The connection ladder is 🌐 direct → 🛰️ datacenter → 🏠 residential and it sticks to the first rung that works. 🧷 If you paste your own proxy via the "Custom proxies" option, it is tried first. Leave as-is for best speed/cost.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.capterra.com/p/162035/Filestage/",
    "https://www.capterra.com/business-intelligence-software/"
  ],
  "includeReviews": false,
  "reviewsOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 10,
  "endPageForReviews": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.capterra.com/p/162035/Filestage/",
        "https://www.capterra.com/business-intelligence-software/"
    ],
    "maxItems": 10,
    "endPageForReviews": 2,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scraper-engine/capterra-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.capterra.com/p/162035/Filestage/",
        "https://www.capterra.com/business-intelligence-software/",
    ],
    "maxItems": 10,
    "endPageForReviews": 2,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scraper-engine/capterra-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.capterra.com/p/162035/Filestage/",
    "https://www.capterra.com/business-intelligence-software/"
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "endPageForReviews": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call scraper-engine/capterra-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=scraper-engine/capterra-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/aw11rjprk4bbctUhG/builds/7kkw7AeajDdV4UZAo/openapi.json