# Yelp Categories API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/yelp/yelp-categories-api/  
**Provider:** Yelp — https://apis.io/providers/yelp/  
**Base URL:** https://api.yelp.com  
**Documentation:** https://docs.developer.yelp.com/

Yelp Categories API is one of 5 APIs that [Yelp](https://apis.io/providers/yelp/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 20 JSON Schema definitions. Tagged areas include Categories. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, and 20 JSON Schemas.

Yelp business category taxonomy

## Machine-readable artifacts (30)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/openapi/yelp-categories-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://docs.developer.yelp.com/
- **APIReference** — https://docs.developer.yelp.com/reference/v3_business_search
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-schema/yelp-business-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-schema/yelp-business-detail-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-schema/yelp-business-search-response-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-schema/yelp-location-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-schema/yelp-coordinates-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-schema/yelp-category-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-schema/yelp-review-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-schema/yelp-reviews-response-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-schema/yelp-autocomplete-response-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-schema/yelp-business-hours-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-schema/yelp-event-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-schema/yelp-event-search-response-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-schema/yelp-ai-chat-request-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-schema/yelp-ai-chat-response-schema.json
- **JSONStructure** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-structure/yelp-business-structure.json
- **JSONStructure** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-structure/yelp-business-detail-structure.json
- **JSONStructure** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-structure/yelp-business-search-response-structure.json
- **JSONStructure** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-structure/yelp-review-structure.json
- **JSONStructure** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-structure/yelp-event-structure.json
- **JSONStructure** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/json-structure/yelp-category-structure.json
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/examples/yelp-business-search-response-example.json
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/examples/yelp-business-detail-example.json
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/examples/yelp-reviews-response-example.json
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/examples/yelp-event-search-response-example.json
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/examples/yelp-autocomplete-response-example.json
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/examples/yelp-ai-chat-response-example.json
- **GraphQL** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yelp/refs/heads/main/graphql/yelp-graphql.md

## Other Yelp APIs (4)

- [Yelp AI API](https://apis.io/apis/yelp/yelp-ai-api/)
- [Yelp Businesses API](https://apis.io/apis/yelp/yelp-businesses-api/)
- [Yelp Events API](https://apis.io/apis/yelp/yelp-events-api/)
- [Yelp Reviews API](https://apis.io/apis/yelp/yelp-reviews-api/)

## Tags

Categories

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