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This is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by DealerRater or Cars.com. DealerRater is a trademark of its owner and is used here only to describe the public data source.

What it does

It pulls every DealerRater review for any car dealership, by dealer name or DealerRater URL, with the star rating broken down into price transparency, trade-in, purchase time, finance, customer service and service-time sub-scores, plus the salesperson each review names. Monitor mode returns only reviews new since the last run, so a schedule becomes a review alert feed.

πŸ“¦ What data you get

Every run returns these fields per record, exportable as CSV, JSON or Excel.

βœ“Full review text
βœ“Overall star rating
βœ“Sales sub-scores: price transparency, trade-in, purchase time, finance
βœ“Service sub-scores: customer service, friendliness, quality of work, service time
βœ“Employee named in the review
βœ“Reviewer & review date
βœ“Visit type (sales or service, new or used)
βœ“Recommends the dealer (yes / no)
βœ“Dealership rating, review count, address & phone
βœ“New-since-last-run flag

πŸ“Š Sample output from a real run

5 records from a real Car Dealer Reviews & Reputation Monitor (DealerRater) run, captured 2026-10-20. The table shows 7 of the 28 fields each record has; that run returned 414 records.

DealerCityStateDateRatingReview titleVisit
Herzog-Meier Volkswagen Volvo MazdaBeavertonORAugust 28, 20265.0I came in knowing what I wanted and was ready to sit forSALES VISIT - NEW
Herzog-Meier Volkswagen Volvo MazdaBeavertonORAugust 28, 20265.0Era un placer trabajar con L*** para encontrar mi carroSALES VISIT - USED
Herzog-Meier Volkswagen Volvo MazdaBeavertonORAugust 14, 20265.0Just bought a new VW Atlas here and it was easier than ISALES VISIT - NEW
Herzog-Meier Volkswagen Volvo MazdaBeavertonORApril 04, 20265.0S*** and D*** were patient and helped us through theSALES VISIT - NEW
Herzog-Meier Volkswagen Volvo MazdaBeavertonORJanuary 15, 20265.0I recently purchased a Volvo XC-40.SALES VISIT - USED
Show one full record as JSON
{
  "source": "DealerRater",
  "dealerId": "16172",
  "dealerName": "Herzog-Meier Volkswagen Volvo Mazda",
  "dealerCity": "Beaverton",
  "dealerState": "OR",
  "dealerUrl": "https://www.dealerrater.com/dealer/Herzog-Meier-Volkswagen-Volvo-Mazda-dealer-reviews-16172/",
  "reviewId": "31910169",
  "reviewUrl": "https://www.dealerrater.com/consumer/social/31910169",
  "reviewDate": "August 28, 2026",
  "rating": 5.0,
  "title": "I came in knowing what I wanted and was ready to sit for",
  "review": "hours going back and forth. L*** H*** made it extremely simple and gave me an amazing price. It only took a couple hours from start to finish! My wife and I left feeling very good about our purchase. I highly recommend this place.",
  "author": "S*** F***",
  "visitType": "SALES VISIT - NEW",
  "recommends": "Yes",
  "employeesWorkedWith": "L*** H***",
  "ratingCustomerService": null,
  "ratingFriendliness": null,
  "ratingFinance": 5.0,
  "ratingPricing": null,
  "ratingPurchaseTime": 5.0,
  "ratingPriceTransparency": 5.0,
  "ratingTradeIn": 5.0,
  "ratingQualityOfWork": null,
  "ratingServiceTime": null,
  "ratingOverallExperience": null,
  "reviewDateIso": "2026-08-28",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-20T21:22:03Z"
}

Download this sample (JSON) Β· Prices and listings change daily, so your run returns current data.

Free to try: every new Apify account starts with $5 of free credit, so you can run this actor yourself on your own search without paying anything.

🎯 Who uses it

Dealer groups

Get alerted to new negative reviews across every rooftop before they sit unanswered.

Sales managers

Coach and reward staff from the reviews that mention them by name.

Reputation agencies & SaaS

Feed dated, dealer-keyed reviews into client reports, sentiment models or LLM pipelines.

πŸš€ How to run it

  1. Create a free Apify account

    Click "Run this actor on Apify" above and sign up - you get $5 of credit instantly, no credit card required.

  2. Enter your input

    Paste the target URL or search terms into the actor's input form in the Apify console.

  3. Set a result limit and click Run

    The limit controls your cost. Pagination, rotating proxies and anti-bot handling all happen in the cloud.

  4. Export or automate

    Download JSON, CSV or Excel, or connect a webhook, schedule or the API to push results into your own workflow.

πŸ’΅ What it costs

$0.003
per review scraped
New Apify accounts start with $5 of free credit and no credit card, so you can test the output before spending anything. There is no monthly minimum - you pay only for what a run produces.

❓ Questions about Car Dealer Reviews & Reputation Monitor (DealerRater)

Can I monitor only new reviews?

Yes - monitor mode remembers the last run and returns only reviews posted since, so a daily schedule works as an alert feed.

Does it show which salesperson a review mentions?

Yes, the employee named by the reviewer is returned with each review, so you can aggregate ratings per staff member.

Can I benchmark against competitor dealerships?

Yes. Add rival dealers by name or URL and compare their sub-scores for price transparency, finance, trade-in and service side by side.

What does it cost?

$0.003 per review and $0.01 per dealership summary row, so 1,000 reviews cost about $3.

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