Trustpilot Search Scraper - discover businesses by category or name
Every market-research exercise begins with the same gap: you cannot enrich a list you do not have. The Trustpilot Search Scraper closes it by taking a search term rather than an identifier. Enter a company name or a category - up to 1,000 terms in a single run - and each term returns the businesses matching it, every one carrying seventeen fields: name, rating, review count, the categories it is listed under, claimed, closed and temporarily-closed flags, its website, profile URL and logo image, plus email, phone and a split address of street, city, postal code and country. The output is identical to the lookup service, which means a pipeline built for either reads the other without modification.
The distinction between the two Trustpilot services is worth being precise about, because it determines which one answers your question. The Trustpilot Scraper is a lookup: you hand it a domain, a profile link or a category URL for a business you have already identified, and it resolves them. This is a search: you hand it a term and it finds the matches for you. In practice teams use both in sequence, searching to discover a market and then using the lookup service to re-check specific businesses on a schedule once they know which ones matter.
One number dominates how this service behaves and what it costs. Results per term default to a hundred, so a search term is not a row - ten terms at the default is potentially a thousand rows rather than ten, and the arithmetic is terms multiplied by results-per-term. Lowering the per-term setting is the main cost lever available, and it is the right move when you only want the leaders in each category rather than the full tail. A skip setting complements it by starting a run further down the same result set, which lets you work through a large category in stages or resume where a previous job finished. Because it is easy to queue far more than intended, the estimator matters more on this service than on any one-row-per-query tool, and spending a few of the one-time 500 free rows on a single term is the cheapest way to learn how large a typical category is.
Three format details carry over from the lookup service and bite the same way. The logo URL is protocol-relative, beginning with a double slash rather than a scheme, so it must have https prepended before a spreadsheet or server-side fetch touches it. Missing values arrive in two different shapes, since the documented response shows the profile URL as null and the phone as an empty string within the same record - check for both. And the categories field holds an array rather than a single value, so flatten it deliberately when exporting. Search also accepts optional enrichments covering contact and lead discovery, email validation and company website finding, which can turn one job into a contactable, checked list; the timing caveat is that a mailbox check is only as good as the day it was taken, so if the list will sit for weeks before you send, run verification separately just before sending. On the legal side this sits at the lighter end of the catalogue: business profiles are published so customers can find them, there is no personal data in the seventeen fields, and because only a review count is returned no reviewer is named or quoted. The platform's terms restrict automated access as they do everywhere, nothing behind a login is touched, and exports auto-delete after 30 days. Start free: your first 500 rows cost nothing and need no credit card.