Customer reviews are one of the most valuable sources of product insight. They reveal real-world feedback, highlight product strengths and weaknesses, and help businesses understand customer sentiment.

In this post, we'll explore how to collect product reviews from Home Depot using SerpApi's Home Depot Product Reviews API. By the end, you'll be able to fetch product reviews data such as ratings, titles, and comments for analysis and monitoring.

Why Scrape Reviews?

Home Depot is one of the largest home improvement retailers in the United States. Product reviews on its site provide valuable insights for:

  1. Competitive analysis – understand how competing products are perceived
  2. Sentiment analysis – identify common praise or complaints
  3. Market research – learn what customers value most
  4. Product development – discover improvement opportunities

Instead of manually collecting reviews, SerpApi lets you retrieve them programmatically and with many no code options.

What Type of Data Can You Extract?

The Home Depot Product Reviews API scrapes reviews for products from Home Depot and provides them in JSON format. Here are some prominent fields from the review object:

  • id — Unique identifier for the review.
  • title — Short headline summarizing the reviewer’s opinion.
  • text — Full written content of the customer review.
  • rating — Numeric score given by the reviewer (typically on a 1–5 scale).
  • badges — Indicates badges on products like verifiedPurchaser.
  • reviewer.name — Display name of the person who wrote the review.
  • time — Timestamp showing when the review was published.
  • original_source.name — Website where the review originally appeared.
  • images.link — URLs of photos included in the review.
  • total_positive_feedback — Number of users who found the review helpful.
  • total_negative_feedback — Number of users who found the review unhelpful.

Read the documentation page here:

The Home Depot Product Reviews API - SerpApi
Scrape full Home Depot Product’s reviews with SerpApi’s Home Depot Product Reviews API. Title, text, rating, reviewer, time, and more.
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Here's an example in our playground:

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Setting up SerpApi

Are you new to SerpApi? We'll walk you through the steps from sign up to integrating with SerpApi.

Getting Started with SerpApi

To get started with SerpApi, I recommend following the steps in this blog post:

Getting started with SerpApi: The Web Search API
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Home Depot Product Reviews API Documentation

We recommend familiarizing yourself with the available parameters and details in the documentation here:

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Scrape full Home Depot Product’s reviews with SerpApi’s Home Depot Product Reviews API. Title, text, rating, reviewer, time, and more.
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Integrations / Libraries

Some examples below will include our SerpApi libraries. If you would like to use one of our SerpApi libraries, we offer instructions for each language, such as Python, Node.js, Ruby, PHP, Java, Go, and more:

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How to Scrape Home Depot Product Reviews using SerpApi

You can use any programming language in order to call our APIs. The parameters and results we reviewed above will not differ between the request methods, however the syntax used to call the APIs may differ.

You will see across the examples the engine is always set to home_depot_product_reviews, the api_key will be set to your API key, and we include the product_id in every query. In this example we are going to look for reviews for product with ID: 302752040

GET Request

The syntax for the actual GET request between languages will vary between programming languages. However, the URL used each time is consistent. When you are sending a GET request in any language you will use this URL to make the request:

https://serpapi.com/search.json?engine=home_depot_product_reviews&product_id=302752040

Feel free to explore more parameters here, and add any that are relevant to your use case.

An Example With Our Python Library

  1. Install SerpApi's new Python serpapi library in your environment:
pip install serpapi
serpapi is our new Python library. You can use this library to scrape search results from any of SerpApi's APIs.

More About Our Python Libraries

We have two separate Python libraries serpapi and google-search-results, and both work perfectly fine. We are in the process of deprecating google-search-results, so I recommend using serpapi as that is our latest python library.

You may encounter issues if you have both libraries installed at the same time. If you have the old library installed and want to proceed with using our new library, please follow these steps:

  1. Uninstall google-search-results module from your environment.
  2. Make sure that neither serpapi nor google-search-results are installed at that stage.
  3. Install serpapi module, for example with the following command if you're using pip: pip install serpapi

Now, let's take a look at the code:

import serpapi

client = serpapi.Client(api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>)

results = client.search({
  "engine": "home_depot_product_reviews",
  "product_id": "302752040"
})

Replace the placeholder with your API key.

An Example With cURL

curl --get https://serpapi.com/search \
 -d api_key="YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY" \
 -d engine="home_depot_product_reviews" \
 -d product_id="302752040"

No Code Options

Google Sheets

To connect your code with Google Sheets first follow this blog post:

Connect SERP API with Google Sheets (No Code)
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=SERPAPI_RESULT("engine=home_depot_product_reviews&product_id=302752040", "reviews.0.text")

Make.com

While not every API we offer is on Make.com, there is a Universal Module where you can use any API.

Review this blog post to get started:

Announcing SerpApi’s Make App
We are pleased to announce the release of our Custom App on Make.com. This makes it easier than ever to integrate SerpApi with other systems without having to write any code.
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N8N

Similar to Make.com, not every API is currently included in N8N. However, you can use the HTTP Request node to still call any of our APIs.

To get started review this blog post:

Boost Your n8n Workflows with SerpApi’s Verified Node
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Conclusion

Scraping product reviews can unlock valuable insights about customer behavior and product performance. With the Home Depot Product Reviews API, you can retrieve structured review data in just a few lines of code.

I hope you find this useful. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out at contact@serpapi.com

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