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# Yelp Business Search and Reviews API

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.

## For AI agents

Programmatically search businesses, phone search. Covers 6 operations with bearer authentication.

## Scope

Does not handle payments, communications, or crm - use for developer tools only.

## Capabilities

- Search Businesses
- Phone Search
- Business Details
- Food & Drinks Insights
- Monitor Yelp Business Search and Reviews API operational status and events

## Use cases

### 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.

Example prompt: 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.

Example prompt: 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.

Example prompt: Search Jentic for 'search businesses', load the operation schema, and execute with Jentic-managed credentials

## Key endpoints

| 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 |

## Key resources

- **Businesses** — Operations for businesses
- **Transactions** — Operations for transactions

## Why Jentic

- **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 handling:** 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.
- **Discovery method:** 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

- **Github** — Alternative developer tools API
- **Gitlab** — Alternative developer tools API

## FAQ

### 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.