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Yelp

With Yelp modules in Make, you can:

  • search businesses, search businesses by phone, retrieve business details and list business reviews

  • search events and retrieve event details

To get started with Yelp, create an account at yelp.com

Connect Yelp to Make

To connect Yelp app, you need to obtain the API Key value from your Yelp account and insert them in the Yelp module scenario.

  1. Log in to your Yelp account.

  2. Click Manage App. Copy the API Key to a safe place.

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  3. Log in to your Make account, insert a Yelp module scenario and click the Add button next to the Connection field.

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  4. In the Connection name field, enter a name for the connection.

  5. In the API Key field, enter the details copied in step 2 and click Save.

You have successfully established the connection. You can now begin editing your scenario and adding more Yelp modules. If your connection needs reauthorization at any point, follow the connection renewal steps here.

Business

You can search businesses, search businesses by phone, retrieve business details, and list business reviews using the following modules.

Returns information about a business.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Yelp account.

Business ID

Enter the Business ID whose details you want to retrieve.

Locale

Select or map the locale of the business.

Searches for businesses.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Yelp account.

Limit

Set the maximum number of businesses Make will return during one execution cycle. The default value is 10.

See the Yelp Business API reference for entering the field values to search for the businesses that match the specified value.

Searches for businesses by phone number.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Yelp account.

Phone

Enter the phone number of the business whose details you want to search.

Locale

Select or map the locale of the business.

Limit

Set the maximum number of businesses Make will return during one execution cycle. The default value is 10.

List reviews for a business.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Yelp account.

Business ID

Enter the Business ID whose business reviews you want to list.

Locale

Select or map the locale of the business.

Limit

Set the maximum number of business reviews Make will return during one execution cycle. The default value is 10.

Events

You can search events and retrieve event details using the following modules.

Returns information about the event.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Yelp account.

Event ID

Enter the Event ID whose event details you want to retrieve.

Locale

Select or map the locale of the event.

Search for events.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Yelp account.

Limit

Set the maximum number of events Make will return during one execution cycle. The default value is 10.

See the Yelp Event API reference for entering the field values to search for the events that match the specified value.

Other

You can call APIs using the following module.

Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.

Note

For the list of available endpoints, refer to the Yelp API documentation.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Yelp account.

URL

Enter a path relative to https://api.yelp.com. For example, /v3/events.

Method

GET

to retrieve information for an entry.

POST

to create a new entry.

PUT

to update/replace an existing entry.

PATCH

to make a partial entry update.

DELETE

to delete an entry.

Headers

Enter the desired request headers. You don't have to add authorization headers; we already did that for you.

Query String

Enter the request query string.

Body

Enter the body content for your API call.

Example of use - Search Events

The following API call returns all events from your account.

URL: /v3/events

Method: GET

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Matches of the search can be found in the module's Output under Bundle > Body > events

In our example 3 events were returned:

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