Yelp

About Yelp

Yelp Developers is a portal offering multiple APIs and data products for building with Yelp's local business data. It includes a Places REST API for connecting consumers with local businesses, a GraphQL API for retrieving specified data fields, open source tools used internally by Yelp engineers, and an Open Dataset providing a subset of business, review, and user data for personal, educational, and academic use.

The portal also covers Yelp Knowledge, which provides ratings, reviews, consumer engagement metrics, and business data for commercial SaaS and analytics platforms, and Yelp Transactions, which supports building marketplace features such as purchases, reservations, and appointment scheduling. Yelp Advertising offers advertising and analytics solutions targeting Yelp's local audience.

The site is aimed at developers and companies building consumer-facing local business tools, analytics platforms, or marketplace and advertising integrations on top of Yelp's data. Access requires registration.

Key features

• REST API (Places API) to connect consumers with local businesses
• GraphQL API for flexible, query-specific data requests
• Yelp Knowledge Access to business ratings, reviews, and engagement metrics for SaaS/analytics platforms
• Yelp Transactions for local marketplace purchases, reservations, and appointment booking
• Yelp Open Dataset with a subset of businesses, reviews, and user data for personal, educational, and academic use
• Yelp Open Source tools used internally by Yelp engineers

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