# Yelp Reviews API. Pay per record.

> Yelp reviews as JSON: text, rating, date, reactions, reviewer and the owner's public reply. From $0.000225 per review.

Canonical: https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/yelp/reviews-api · Updated 2026-10-21

Get the reviews for up to ten Yelp businesses: the text, the rating, the date, the reactions, the reviewer and the owner's reply. Priced per review returned.

- Price: $0.000225 / review
- Billed: Per record
- Free to start: $0.10
- Endpoint: POST /v1/yelp

## What people build with the Yelp Reviews API

- **Reputation monitoring.** Read every new review across your locations and catch the ones that need a reply.
- **Competitor review analysis.** See what customers say about the places you compete with, in their own words.
- **Feed an agent.** Give your agent a business's recent reviews before it writes a summary or a response.

## Quote it, then run it

1. free quote: the exact price, nothing charged:

```bash
curl -X POST https://apiforagents.dev/v1/yelp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"op":"reviews","subjects":["katzs-delicatessen-new-york"],"limit":25,"estimateOnly":true}'
```

2. the same call, run:

```bash
curl -X POST https://apiforagents.dev/v1/yelp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"op":"reviews","subjects":["katzs-delicatessen-new-york"],"limit":25}'
```

## Inputs

Everything you can send in one reviews call. Required inputs first.

| Input | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| subjects * | text list | yelp.com/biz/ URLs or their slugs. 1-10 items |
| limit | integer | 1-100 |

## What comes back

The fields of every row, always present. Nothing is guessed: a value that could not be measured is null, and the answer's coverage says why.

| Field | Type |
|---|---|
| reviewId | string |
| rating | number |
| reviewText | string |
| reviewDate | string |
| reviewUrl | string |
| language | string |
| translatedText | string |
| publicReply | string |
| photos | list of string |
| photoCaption | any |
| videos | list of string |
| totalReactions | integer |
| reactions | any |
| firstReviewer | boolean |
| reviewer | any |
| reviewerName | string |
| details | object |

details is always the last field: everything else the source sent for that row, under our own field names. Its keys depend on the source that answered, so read them defensively; it is {} when there is nothing more.

## A sample answer

Made-up names and values in the real field names, so you can see the shape before you spend anything.

| reviewerName | rating | reviewText | reviewDate | totalReactions | firstReviewer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jess T. | 5 | Best cortado in town and the staff remember your name. | 2026-10-11 | 14 | false |
| Mike R. | 4 | Great coffee, seating fills up fast. | 2026-10-04 | 6 | false |
| Ana P. | 5 | Their cold brew is unreal. | 2026-09-27 | 9 | false |

## Pricing

Pay as you go, in US dollars, per record. No subscription, nothing expires, $5 first top-up, and every new agent starts with $0.10 free.

| Request | Records | At the list price |
|---|---|---|
| One review | 1 | $0.000225 |
| 10 reviews | 10 | $0.0022 |
| A full page | 100 | $0.022 |

These are per-record list prices. Some calls also carry a minimum, such as a page of search results, so a small request can cost more than the table shows. The quote ("estimateOnly": true) is free, gives the most your exact request can cost, and the charge then settles to what came back. Records that do not come back are refunded.

## Try it without writing code

- [Open the Yelp Reviews API in the playground](https://apiforagents.dev/dashboard/run?platform=yelp&op=reviews): The playground runs any endpoint by hand: pick a platform and what you want from it, fill a short form named in plain words (or press Use sample input), see the free quote on the Run button, run it, then read the answer as a table or JSON and download it as CSV or JSON. The same call is written out as cURL, Python and Node while you type.

## Why this one, and not a scraper you run yourself

- No login, no Yelp account, no cookies, no proxies, no browser to babysit.
- When the site changes its pages, your request stays the same: keeping the reads working is our job, not yours.
- A fetch that fails costs nothing: it is named in the answer with a reason, and the quote says the most a call can cost before it runs.

## Use it from your tools

- [Yelp in n8n](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/n8n/yelp)
- [Yelp in Make](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/make/yelp)
- [Yelp in Zapier](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/zapier/yelp)
- [Yelp in Python](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/python/yelp)
- [Yelp in LangChain](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/langchain/yelp)
- [Yelp in Claude Code](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/claude-code/yelp)

## Questions

### What does the Yelp Reviews API return?

One row per review: the reviewer's name, the rating, the review text, the date, total reactions, a first-reviewer flag, the owner's public reply, the review id and URL, and photos.

### What do I pass in?

Up to ten yelp.com/biz/ URLs or their slugs, and a limit of 1 to 100.

### How much does it cost?

$0.000225 per review at the list price. A small call can carry a minimum, so quote first with "estimateOnly": true, which is free and is the most the call can cost. You pay for what comes back.

## Why API for Agents

- One key for 26 platforms: social, commerce, jobs, places, search and contacts, with one request shape and one response shape.
- A free quote before any spend: add "estimateOnly": true to any call and see the most it can cost.
- Pay per record in US dollars. No subscription, nothing expires, top-ups from $5.
- $0.10 free to try, no card. An AI agent can sign itself up in one request; a person claims it later.
- Measured, not estimated: every answer says when each row was measured, whether it was fresh or a recent capture, and how sure to be of each field.
- Partial success is success: anything that could not be fetched is named with a reason, and the charge settles to what came back, never above the quote.
- Typed fields that keep their names whichever source answered, and a details object last with everything else the source sent, under our own field names.
- Try any endpoint in the playground and download the answer as CSV or JSON.

## Start

The playground runs any endpoint by hand: pick a platform and what you want from it, fill a short form named in plain words (or press Use sample input), see the free quote on the Run button, run it, then read the answer as a table or JSON and download it as CSV or JSON. The same call is written out as cURL, Python and Node while you type. Open it at https://apiforagents.dev/dashboard/run?platform=yelp&op=reviews (sign in first).

Agents register at https://apiforagents.dev/auth.md (one POST, $0.10 free). People: https://apiforagents.dev/docs#start. Prices: https://apiforagents.dev/pricing.md