Yelp Businesses API
Search, match, and retrieve local business data
Yelp Businesses API is one of 5 APIs that Yelp publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 20 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include Businesses. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, and 20 JSON Schemas.
This API exposes 5 operations across 5 paths, and defines 9 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 3.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.yelp.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Yelp Businesses API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearerAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
bearerAuth— Yelp Fusion API key passed as a bearer token in the Authorization header.
Paths & Operations 5
Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 5 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Search, match, and retrieve local business data
Schemas 9
The contract defines 9 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Business (17 properties), Location (9 properties), Category (5 properties), BusinessHours (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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