# Yelp

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/yelp/  
**Website:** https://www.yelp.com/developers  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Yelp connects people with great local businesses. The Yelp Fusion API gives developers programmatic access to Yelp's database of millions of local businesses, ratings, reviews, photos, events, and category taxonomy, plus the Yelp Fusion AI conversational search endpoint. Core public capabilities include business search and discovery, business details, review excerpts, autocomplete, phone and address matching, and local event search. Partner-tier APIs add reviews response, leads, advertising, reservations, waitlist, checkout, and reporting. Authentication uses a Yelp API key passed as a bearer token.

## Kin Score — 54.6 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 54.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 77.5 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 27.7 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **Yelp AI API** — Conversational Yelp Fusion AI search and chat
- **Yelp Businesses API** — Search, match, and retrieve local business data
- **Yelp Categories API** — Yelp business category taxonomy
- **Yelp Events API** — Local event search and details
- **Yelp Reviews API** — Business review excerpts and ratings

## Agentic access (1)

- **Yelp Agentic Access** — 11 operations · 1 acting

## Security (3)

- **Yelp Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Yelp Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Yelp Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Yelp Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Restaurant Discovery** — Power restaurant and food discovery experiences with search, ratings, and photos.
- **Location-Aware Recommendations** — Surface nearby, open, and highly-rated businesses based on user coordinates.
- **Reputation Monitoring** — Track ratings and review excerpts for a portfolio of businesses.
- **Conversational Concierge** — Build AI agents that answer natural language questions about local businesses.
- **Local Events Listings** — Embed curated local event listings into apps and sites.

## Tags

Restaurant, Local Search, Reviews, Business Data, Location

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/yelp/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.