yelp-api

This package provides a programmatic JavaScript interface for the Yelp Fusion API. The Yelp Fusion API Documentation can be viewed here.

In order to use this package, you must first get a Yelp Fusion API Key.

Installing

Simply use npm to install the package.

npm install yelp-api --save

Usage

The Yelp Fusion API has many API endpoints. Below shows how to query each of them. Reference links for each endpoint are also provided.

To query any of these endpoints, you must get your API Key from the Yelp Fusion Manage App page, located here.

Search API

This endpoint returns up to 1000 businesses based on the provided search criteria. More details here.

let yelpAPI = require('yelp-api');

// Create a new yelpAPI object with your API key
let apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
let yelp = new yelpAPI(apiKey);

// Set any parameters, if applicable (see API documentation for allowed params)
let params = [{ location: '20008' }];

// Call the endpoint
yelp.query('businesses/search', params)
.then(data => {
  // Success
  console.log(data);
})
.catch(err => {
  // Failure
  console.log(err);
});

Phone Search API

This endpoint returns a list of businesses based on the provided phone number. More details here.

let yelpAPI = require('yelp-api');

// Create a new yelpAPI object with your API key
let apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
let yelp = new yelpAPI(apiKey);

// Set any parameters, if applicable (see API documentation for allowed params)
let params = [{ phone: '+14159083801' }];

// Call the endpoint
yelp.query('businesses/search/phone', params)
.then(data => {
  // Success
  console.log(data);
})
.catch(err => {
  // Failure
  console.log(err);
});

Transaction Search API

This endpoint returns a list of businesses which support certain transactions. More details here.

let yelpAPI = require('yelp-api');

// Create a new yelpAPI object with your API key
let apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
let yelp = new yelpAPI(apiKey);

// Set any parameters, if applicable (see API documentation for allowed params)
let transactionType = 'delivery';
let params = [{ location: '20002' }];

// Call the endpoint
yelp.query(`transactions/${transactionType}/search`, params)
.then(data => {
  // Success
  console.log(data);
})
.catch(err => {
  // Failure
  console.log(err);
});

Business API

This endpoint returns the detail information of a business. More details here.

let yelpAPI = require('yelp-api');

// Create a new yelpAPI object with your API key
let apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
let yelp = new yelpAPI(apiKey);

// Set any parameters, if applicable (see API documentation for allowed params)
let businessId = 'four-barrel-coffee-san-francisco';
let params = [{ locale: 'en_US' }];

// Call the endpoint
yelp.query(`businesses/${businessId}`, params)
.then(data => {
  // Success
  console.log(data);
})
.catch(err => {
  // Failure
  console.log(err);
});

Business Match API

Thess endpoints let you match business data from other sources against our businesses based on some minimal information provided. To enable this endpoint, you must first join the Yelp Developer Beta Program. More details here.

Best Match

let yelpAPI = require('yelp-api');

// Create a new yelpAPI object with your API key
let apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
let yelp = new yelpAPI(apiKey);

// Set any parameters, if applicable (see API documentation for allowed params)
let params = [
  { name: 'Four Barrel Coffee' }, 
  { city: 'San Francisco' }, 
  { state: 'CA' },
  { country: 'US' }
];

// Call the endpoint
yelp.query('businesses/matches/best', params)
.then(data => {
  // Success
  console.log(data);
})
.catch(err => {
  // Failure
  console.log(err);
});

Lookup

let yelpAPI = require('yelp-api');

// Create a new yelpAPI object with your API key
let apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
let yelp = new yelpAPI(apiKey);

// Set any parameters, if applicable (see API documentation for allowed params)
let params = [
  { name: 'Four Barrel Coffee' }, 
  { city: 'San Francisco' }, 
  { state: 'CA' },
  { country: 'US' }
];

// Call the endpoint
yelp.query('businesses/matches/lookup', params)
.then(data => {
  // Success
  console.log(data);
})
.catch(err => {
  // Failure
  console.log(err);
});

Reviews API

This endpoint returns up to three reviews of a business ordered by Yelp's default sort order. More details here.

let yelpAPI = require('yelp-api');

// Create a new yelpAPI object with your API key
let apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
let yelp = new yelpAPI(apiKey);

// Set any parameters, if applicable (see API documentation for allowed params)
let params = [{ locale: 'en_US' }];
let businessId = 'four-barrel-coffee-san-francisco';

// Call the endpoint
yelp.query(`businesses/${businessId}/reviews`, params)
.then(data => {
  // Success
  console.log(data);
})
.catch(err => {
  // Failure
  console.log(err);
});

Autocomplete API

This endpoint returns autocomplete suggestions for search keywords, businesses and categories, based on the input text. More details here.

let yelpAPI = require('yelp-api');

// Create a new yelpAPI object with your API key
let apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
let yelp = new yelpAPI(apiKey);

// Set any parameters, if applicable (see API documentation for allowed params)
let params = [{ text: 'Panuccis Pizza' }];

// Call the endpoint
yelp.query('autocomplete', params)
.then(data => {
  // Success
  console.log(data);
})
.catch(err => {
  // Failure
  console.log(err);
});

Event Lookup API

This endpoint returns the detailed information of a Yelp event. To enable this endpoint, you must first join the Yelp Developer Beta Program. More details here.

let yelpAPI = require('yelp-api');

// Create a new yelpAPI object with your API key
let apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
let yelp = new yelpAPI(apiKey);

// Set any parameters, if applicable (see API documentation for allowed params)
let params = [{ locale: 'en_US' }];
let eventId = 'oakland-saucy-oakland-restaurant-pop-up';

// Call the endpoint
yelp.query(`events/${eventId}`, params)
.then(data => {
  // Success
  console.log(data);
})
.catch(err => {
  // Failure
  console.log(err);
});

Event Search API

This endpoint returns events based on the provided search criteria. To enable this endpoint, you must first join the Yelp Developer Beta Program. More details here.

let yelpAPI = require('yelp-api');

// Create a new yelpAPI object with your API key
let apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
let yelp = new yelpAPI(apiKey);

// Set any parameters, if applicable (see API documentation for allowed params)
let params = [{ locale: 'en_US' }];

// Call the endpoint
yelp.query('events', params)
.then(data => {
  // Success
  console.log(data);
})
.catch(err => {
  // Failure
  console.log(err);
});

Featured Event API

This endpoint returns the featured event for a given location. To enable this endpoint, you must first join the Yelp Developer Beta Program. More details here.

let yelpAPI = require('yelp-api');

// Create a new yelpAPI object with your API key
let apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
let yelp = new yelpAPI(apiKey);

// Set any parameters, if applicable (see API documentation for allowed params)
let params = [{ location: '20002' }];

// Call the endpoint
yelp.query('events/featured', params)
.then(data => {
  // Success
  console.log(data);
})
.catch(err => {
  // Failure
  console.log(err);
});

Contributing

I would very much appreciate your contributions to this project Make any pull requests on the GitHub repo.

Authors

• Nick Shallee - AureliaCasts

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License (MIT)

Copyright 2018 Nick Shallee

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