Overview
Summary	Local user reviews and city guides
Category	Recommendations
Tags	shopping local
Date Added	2007-08-03
Description	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. The default output is JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), this output format was chosen due to the availability of JSON parsers in many languages
API Home Page	http://www.yelp.com/developers
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Protocol
Protocols	REST
Data Formats	JSON, Serialized PHP, Serialized Python
Service Endpoint	http://api.yelp.com
Functionality
API Groups	Search, Phone, Neighborhood
Example API Methods	Search
Client Install Required	No
Security
Authentication Model	API Key
SSL Support	No
Read-only Without Login	No
Support
Vendor API Kits
Community API Kits
API Blog
Site Blog
API Forum
Developer Support
Signup and Licensing
Signup Requirements	API Key
Developer Key Required	Yes
Account with Service Required	No
Commercial Licensing
Non-Commercial Licensing
Data Licensing
Usage Fees
Usage Limits
Terms of Service	API Terms of Service

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