Yelp Business API for AI Agents

Full Yelp business profiles by place ID as JSON

The Yelp Business API takes a Yelp place ID and returns the full business profile as structured JSON: name, rating, review count, price tier, categories, phone, address, website, per-weekday hours, amenities as structured flags, popular dishes, and review highlights. Turn on full_menu and menu sections come back as data when the business publishes a menu on Yelp.

Yelp's own developer offering slims the response down: full menus, amenity lists, popular dishes, and review highlights are page-level detail it does not carry. This Actor returns the same public business page whole, one JSON item per place ID, so batching fifty competitors is just a longer list.

Example tasks and use cases

Get a Yelp business profile by ID - one place ID in, one full profile out as JSON.

Enrich Yelp business listings in bulk - feed a column of place IDs and get phone, website, hours, and ratings per row.

Extract a restaurant's full menu from Yelp - enable full_menu and pull menu sections and items back as data.

Get a Yelp health inspection score by place ID - pull the health inspection signal where Yelp shows one.

Track Yelp competitor ratings and amenities - run the same ID list on a schedule and diff ratings and amenities over time.

Works with MCP

Through the Apify MCP server the Actor becomes a tool that Claude, Claude Code, and Cursor can call directly. Ask "pull the profile for maman-new-york-22 and summarize the amenities" and it runs a live fetch instead of guessing.

Pricing and limits

Pay per event: $0.02 to start a run and $0.02 per place processed, so one business is about $0.04. Place IDs come from any Yelp business URL, the slug after /biz/. Menus only return when a business publishes one on Yelp, and a requested menu that does not exist returns a profile with menu_returned set to false rather than invented data.