Yelp Business Search and Reviews API
Developer ToolsSource Controlbearer6 EndpointsREST
For Agents
Programmatically search businesses, phone search. Covers 6 operations with bearer authentication.
Use for: I need to businesses, I want to phone search, Search for business details, Find all business insights
Not supported: Does not handle payments, communications, or crm - use for developer tools only.
API for searching businesses, retrieving business details, and accessing business reviews. Provides endpoints to search businesses by terms, get specific business information by ID, and fetch reviews for individual businesses. The API exposes 6 endpoints secured with bearer authentication.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the Yelp Business Search and Reviews API to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Yelp Business Search and Reviews API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fyelp.com%2Fyelp" | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fyelp.com%2Fyelp" | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with Yelp Business Search and Reviews API.
Search Businesses
Phone Search
Business Details
Food & Drinks Insights
Monitor Yelp Business Search and Reviews API operational status and events
Use Cases
Patterns agents use Yelp Business Search and Reviews API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Developer Tools Operations
Use the Yelp Business Search and Reviews API to perform developer tools operations programmatically. The API provides 6 endpoints covering core functionality including search businesses, phone search, business details.
Call GET /businesses/search to search businesses
Automated Businesses Management
Automate businesses operations by combining multiple Yelp Business Search and Reviews API endpoints. Agents can phone search and then business details in a single workflow.
Call GET /businesses/search/phone to phone search, then verify the result
AI Agent Integration via Jentic
AI agents discover and call Yelp Business Search and Reviews API endpoints through Jentic without managing credentials directly. An agent searches for the required operation by intent, receives the matching endpoint schema, and executes the call with Jentic-managed authentication. This eliminates the need to read API documentation or handle bearer tokens manually.
Search Jentic for 'search businesses', load the operation schema, and execute with Jentic-managed credentials
Key Endpoints
6 endpoints — api for searching businesses, retrieving business details, and accessing business reviews.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
GET
/businesses/search
Search Businesses
GET
/businesses/search/phone
Phone Search
GET
/businesses/{id}
Business Details
GET
/businesses/insights
Business Insights
GET
/businesses/{business_id_or_alias}/insights/food_and_drinks
Food & Drinks Insights
GET
/transactions/delivery/search
Food Delivery Search
GET
/businesses/search
Search Businesses
GET
/businesses/search/phone
Phone Search
GET
/businesses/{id}
Business Details
GET
/businesses/insights
Business Insights
GET
/businesses/{business_id_or_alias}/insights/food_and_drinks
Food & Drinks Insights
GET
/transactions/delivery/search
Food Delivery Search
Why Jentic?
What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.
Setup
Wiring Yelp Business Search by hand means sending its bearer token on api.yelp.com/v3, encoding search parameters correctly, and handling retries and rate limits yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import Yelp Business Search from the API Directory, store the token once, and your agent calls it.
Permission scoping
Yelp Business Search exposes only reads in this spec, so limit the agent to the operations it needs, such as searching businesses or fetching a business by id. You choose that set, so it can look up data but holds no capability beyond the read operations you allow.
Credential isolation
Your Yelp token is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'search businesses near a location' or 'look up a business by phone', and Jentic returns the matching Yelp operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using Yelp Business Search and Reviews API through Jentic.
What authentication does the Yelp Business Search and Reviews API use?
The Yelp Business Search and Reviews API uses a Bearer token in the Authorization header. Through Jentic, these credentials are stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and injected at execution time, so raw secrets never enter the agent context.
Can I search businesses with the Yelp Business Search and Reviews API?
Yes. Use the GET /businesses/search endpoint. The API returns structured JSON responses that agents can parse and act on directly.
What are the rate limits for the Yelp Business Search and Reviews API?
Rate limits are not specified in the OpenAPI spec. Check the vendor documentation for current limits. Through Jentic, rate limiting is handled automatically with retry logic built into the execution layer.
How do I search businesses through Jentic?
Install the Jentic SDK with pip install jentic, authenticate through Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer, then search for 'search businesses'. Jentic returns the matching Yelp Business Search and Reviews API operation with its input schema. Load the schema and execute the call - credentials are injected automatically.
How many endpoints does the Yelp Business Search and Reviews API have?
The Yelp Business Search and Reviews API exposes 6 endpoints covering businesses, transactions operations.
Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Yelp Business Search and Reviews API?
Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which Yelp operations and credentials the agent may use. This spec exposes only read operations, so you can restrict the agent to just the calls it needs, such as GET /businesses/search or fetching a single business by id, while withholding others like phone search or the food and drinks insights endpoint. The agent can look up business data but holds no capability beyond the read operations you allow.
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