You can scrape reviews if they are :

– In Schema
– Have their own specific class of <p> tag

e.g. class=”review-tex text-base font-secondary”

Can you scrape the reviews then?

Yes, you can scrape the reviews if they are formatted in schema markup (like Review, AggregateRating, etc.) or if they belong to a specific class. Screaming Frog’s Custom Extraction feature will allow you to do this.

✅ How to Scrape Reviews in Schema or Specific HTML Classes Using Screaming Frog

1️⃣ Enable Structured Data Extraction (for Schema Reviews) If the reviews are in schema markup (JSON-LD, Microdata, or RDFa), Screaming Frog can directly extract them:

✔ Open Screaming Frog SEO Spider.

✔ Navigate to Configuration > Spider > Enable Structured Data.

✔ Start a crawl, and Screaming Frog will pull JSON-LD, Microdata, and RDFa formats.

✔ Once the crawl is finished, go to Reports > Structured Data > Review Schema to export the data.

2️⃣ Extract Reviews from a Specific Class (e.g., class=”review-text text-base font-secondary”) If the reviews are located within a specific tag that has a class, you can use Custom Extraction to get them:

✔ Open Screaming Frog and go to Configuration > Custom Extraction.

✔ Select XPath or CSS Selector based on your data structure. ✔ Use these extraction methods: 📝 Option 1: Using CSS Selector (Ideal for Class-Based Extraction) css Copy Edit p.review-text.text-base.font-secondary ✔

This will retrieve all tags that have the class review-text text-base font-secondary. 📝 Option 2: Using XPath (For More Complex Queries) xpath Copy Edit //p[contains(@class, ‘review-text text-base font-secondary’)] ✔

This will locate all elements with a class that includes “review-text text-base font-secondary”.

3️⃣ Run the Crawl and Export the Review Data

✔ Start the crawl and allow Screaming Frog to extract the reviews.

✔ After it’s done, go to Custom Extraction > Export Data.

✔ Open the resulting file in Excel or Google Sheets for further analysis. 🚀 Alternative Approach: Scraping JSON-LD Schema Reviews If the reviews are included in JSON-LD schema markup, you can extract them using: Custom Extraction (JSON-LD): xpath //script[@type=’application/ld+json’]/text()
✔ This extracts all JSON-LD data, which you can filter for reviews.
✔ Use JSON formatting tools (like jq or Python json.loads()) to clean and parse the data.

🔹 Summary: Can Screaming Frog Scrape Reviews?
✅ YES, if reviews are inside Schema Markup (JSON-LD, Microdata, RDFa).
✅ YES, if they have a specific class, using Custom Extraction.
✅ YES, if the reviews are static HTML, meaning they exist in the page source.
❌ NO, if reviews are loaded dynamically via JavaScript (use Selenium instead).