Yelp API Profile

From their site: The Yelp APIs are REST (REpresentational State Transfer) APIs and users of these APIs will be able to retrieve business review and rating, information for a particular geographic region or location.display review information for a particular business, determine accurate neighborhood name information for a particular location, track recent reviews for a particular business, display pictures of highly rated local businesses and of the top reviewers for that business, determine a particular business' review and rating information based on the phone number for that business. Read More

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Yelp: Highlights

Summary: Local user reviews and city guides

Category: Recommendations

Tags: shopping local

Protocols: REST

Data Formats: JSON, Serialized PHP, Serialized Python

API home: http://www.yelp.com/developers

Yelp: Specifications

Functionality

API Groups: Search, Phone, Neighborhood

Example API Methods: Search

Client Install Required: No

Service Endpoint: http://api.yelp.com

Signup and Licensing

Signup Requirements: API Key

Developer Key Required: Yes

Account Required: No

Commercial Licensing

Provider: yelp.com

Non-Commercial Lic.

Data Licensing

Usage Fees

Usage Limits

Terms of Service: API Terms of Service

Security

Authentication Model: API Key

SSL Support: No

Read-only Without Login: No

Support

Vendor API Kits

Community API Kits

API Blog

Site Blog: officialblog.yelp.com/

API Forum: groups.google.com/group/yelp-developer-support

Developer Support

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Comments

January 23, 2009 at 07:52: Comment by: vijgan
hi am also unable to signup for yelp.
any suggestion?

December 02, 2008 at 08:45: Comment by: Sundar
Hi, I'm unable to signup for an Yelp account. It always says "Oops, Yelp is overworked right now." Anyone else face this problem?