yelp-reviews
The recommended reviews on a Yelp business's page, in Yelp's order, one row per review: stars, date, text, the reviewer's name, home town and Yelp profile, and the reactions (helpful, thanks, love this, oh no). business is the business's Yelp URL or its alias (the part after /biz/). Yelp shows up to 10 on the page; about 25 s, sometimes a second fetch.
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Fields
7 columns on every row. null means the site does not state it.| field | type | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| review_id | string | Yelp's id of the review. |
| business | string | The business's alias, the part of its Yelp URL after /biz/. |
| rating | number | The reviewer's stars, 1 to 5. |
| date | string | When the review was written, YYYY-MM-DD. |
| text | string | The review's full text. |
| author | object | The reviewer, {name, location, url}: location is the home town Yelp shows; url is the Yelp profile. |
| reactions | object | How many readers reacted, {helpful, thanks, love_this, oh_no}. |
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-reviews with your key and business. You get rows with the 7 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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