What data can be scraped from Yelp.com using Ruby?

Salma Dominique · 2024-12-20T08:11:17+00:00

Scraping Yelp.com using Ruby allows you to collect valuable business information such as names, ratings, locations, and reviews. Ruby's open-uri for HTTP requests and nokogiri for parsing HTML provide a straightforward way to extract this data. By targeting Yelp's search pages, you can gather data from multiple businesses in a specific category or location. Below is an example script for scraping business information from Yelp.require 'open-uri'require 'nokogiri'# Target URLurl 'https://www.yelp.com/search?find_descrestaurants&find_locNew+York'html URI.open(url).read# Parse HTMLdoc Nokogiri::HTML(html)# Extract business detailsdoc.css('.container__09f24__21w3G').each do |business| name business.css('.css-1egxyvc').text.strip rescue 'Name not available' rating business.css('.i-stars__09f24__1T6rz').attr('aria-label')&.value rescue 'Rating not available' address business.css('.css-e81eai').text.strip rescue 'Address not available' puts "Name: #{name}, Rating: #{rating}, Address: #{address}"endThis script fetches a Yelp search results page, parses the HTML using Nokogiri, and extracts business names, ratings, and addresses. Handling pagination to navigate through multiple pages ensures a more complete dataset. Adding delays between requests helps avoid detection by Yelp’s anti-scraping mechanisms.

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What data can be scraped from Yelp.com using Ruby?

Posted by Salma Dominique on 12/20/2024 at 8:11 am
Scraping Yelp.com using Ruby allows you to collect valuable business information such as names, ratings, locations, and reviews. Ruby’s open-uri for HTTP requests and nokogiri for parsing HTML provide a straightforward way to extract this data. By targeting Yelp’s search pages, you can gather data from multiple businesses in a specific category or location. Below is an example script for scraping business information from Yelp.
```
require 'open-uri'
require 'nokogiri'
# Target URL
url = 'https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=restaurants&find_loc=New+York'
html = URI.open(url).read
# Parse HTML
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(html)
# Extract business details
doc.css('.container__09f24__21w3G').each do |business|
  name = business.css('.css-1egxyvc').text.strip rescue 'Name not available'
  rating = business.css('.i-stars__09f24__1T6rz').attr('aria-label')&.value rescue 'Rating not available'
  address = business.css('.css-e81eai').text.strip rescue 'Address not available'
  puts "Name: #{name}, Rating: #{rating}, Address: #{address}"
end
```
This script fetches a Yelp search results page, parses the HTML using Nokogiri, and extracts business names, ratings, and addresses. Handling pagination to navigate through multiple pages ensures a more complete dataset. Adding delays between requests helps avoid detection by Yelp’s anti-scraping mechanisms.
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