yelp-business
One business on Yelp as one row: name, rating and review count, price range, categories, phone, website, address, neighborhoods and map point, whether it has closed for good, its description and photos. business is the business's Yelp URL or its alias (the part after /biz/). About 25 s, sometimes a second fetch.
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Fields
17 columns on every row. null means the site does not state it.| field | type | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| business_id | string | Yelp's id of the business. |
| alias | string | The business's name in its Yelp URL. |
| url | string | The business's page, https://www.yelp.com/biz/<alias>. |
| name | string | The business's name. |
| rating | number | The average star rating, 1 to 5, one decimal. |
| review_count | integer | How many reviews it has. |
| price_range | Yelp's price level, "$" to "$$$$"; null when not set. | |
| categories | string[] | Yelp's categories for it, a list of names ("Hotels"). |
| phone | string | The phone number as Yelp shows it. |
| website | string | The business's own website; null when it has none. |
| address | object | {street, city, state, zip, country}. |
| neighborhoods | any[] | The neighborhoods Yelp places it in, a list of names. |
| latitude | number | The business's latitude, a number. |
| longitude | number | The business's longitude, a number. |
| is_closed | boolean | true when Yelp marks the business closed for good. |
| description | string | The business's own description of what it does (its specialties); null when it wrote none. |
| photos | string[] | Photo URLs at full size, at most 25, Yelp's order. |
null means the site does not state it.
How it behaves
Cost. 1 page; 2 when Yelp loads late. A failed run costs 0.
Freshness 1 h. The same input within 1 h is served from cache at 0 units.
How it answers. Answers at once for one input; a large run goes as a job you poll.
Questions about this recipeQuestions
Short answers. The API reference has the long ones.
Call POST /recipes/yelp-business with your key and business. You get rows with the 17 fields above. The recipe is tested against the live site every 6 hours.
1 page; 2 when Yelp loads late. A failed run costs 0. The same input within 1 h costs 0.
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