Yelp Business Search via Fusion API

Reliable Yelp Data — Powered by Official API, Zero Anti-Bot Issues

Search Yelp businesses by category and location using the official Yelp Fusion API. Returns business names, ratings, locations, phone numbers, categories, price levels, review counts, and (optionally) up to 3 most-recent reviews per business. Because this uses the official API, there's no scraping, no proxies, no anti-bot challenges, no broken HTML selectors — 100% reliable, every time.

You provide your free Yelp Fusion API key (5,000 calls/day on the free tier) and the actor handles pagination, retries, and clean output.

What data can you extract?

Field	Type	Description
businessId	string	Yelp internal business ID
businessAlias	string	URL-friendly business slug
businessName	string	Business name
yelpUrl	string	Direct Yelp page URL
imageUrl	string	Cover image URL
isClaimed	boolean	True if the business has been claimed by its owner
isClosed	boolean	True if Yelp marks it as permanently closed
rating	number	Average rating (1.0-5.0)
reviewCount	integer	Total number of reviews
price	string	Price level ($, $$, $$$, $$$$)
phone	string	Display phone number
categories	array	Category titles
address	string	Full street address
city, state, zipCode, country	string	Location components
latitude, longitude	number	GPS coordinates
distanceMeters	number	Distance from search center
transactions	array	Supported transactions (delivery, pickup, restaurant_reservation)
reviews	array	Up to 3 most-recent reviews (when includeReviews: true)
searchTerm / searchLocation	string	Origin search params
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp

How to get a free Yelp Fusion API key

1. Visit https://docs.developer.yelp.com/
2. Click Get Started → Sign up (Google login is fastest)
3. Click Create New App
4. Fill in: name, industry, website, contact email — Yelp accepts immediately
5. Yelp emails you the API key (a long alphanumeric string)
6. Paste it into the yelpApiKey input field of this actor

Free tier: 5,000 API calls per day. Each search call returns up to 50 businesses, so 5,000 calls = 250,000 businesses per day.

Use cases

• Cold outreach lead lists — Build B2B prospect lists by extracting all dentists, lawyers, contractors, or restaurants in any US/UK/CA/AU city.
• Competitive market analysis — Map all businesses in a category across cities to size markets and identify gaps.
• Local SEO research — Build datasets of competitor ratings, review counts, categories, and price tiers.
• Restaurant analytics — Track price level distributions, transaction support (delivery/pickup), and review trends.
• Real estate / location intelligence — Enrich addresses with surrounding business density and quality.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
yelpApiKey	string	Yes	—	Your Yelp Fusion API key
searches	array	Yes	—	Queries formatted as "category in city, state"
maxResultsPerSearch	integer	No	50	Maximum businesses per search (Yelp limit: 240)
includeReviews	boolean	No	false	Add up to 3 reviews per business (1 extra API call each)

Example output

{
    "businessId": "WavvLdfdP6g8aZTtbBQHTw",
    "businessName": "Joe's Pizza",
    "yelpUrl": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/joes-pizza-new-york",
    "rating": 4.5,
    "reviewCount": 2847,
    "price": "$",
    "phone": "(212) 388-9555",
    "categories": ["Pizza", "Italian"],
    "address": "150 E 14th St, New York, NY 10003",
    "city": "New York", "state": "NY", "zipCode": "10003",
    "latitude": 40.7330, "longitude": -73.9874,
    "transactions": ["pickup"],
    "searchTerm": "pizza", "searchLocation": "Brooklyn, NY",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-25T12:00:00.000Z"
}

How much does it cost?

This actor uses a pay-per-result pricing model.

• $0.001 per business -- that is $1.00 per 1,000 businesses.
• 50 businesses cost $0.05.
• 1,000 businesses cost $1.00.

You only pay for what you extract — no monthly fees, no minimum commitments. Cheapest Yelp data on Apify Store, because the official API removes all proxy/scraping costs.

Tips and tricks

• The free tier is plenty for most use cases. 5,000 calls/day = 250,000 businesses extracted daily. Most users never hit the limit.
• Format searches as "category in city, state" for the most precise results.
• Disable includeReviews if you don't need them. Reviews double API call usage (one extra call per business).
• Combine with Google Maps Business Scraper for cross-platform coverage.

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