January 17, 2019

Yelp Fusion API Python example

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Introduction

Have you heard of Yelp before ? Probably yes, it is a crowd sourced review local search service. Today, we are going to demonstrate Yelp’s open API using Python. We are going to implement a simple Python script to search for a business, get its rating, address and phone number. Our script utilizes Yelp Fusion search API to query for business using a search term and location. Sounds good ?

Let us get started…

Yelp developer

Follow the steps below…

In order to be able to use Yelp Fusion API, we need to register as a developer, create an app and get an API key. This is straight forward, just go to here and the rest is self explanatory.
If you do not have the requests library installed, do so by running the following command…

pip install requests

1	pip install requests

Implementation

For explanation, take a look at the comments…

# This is needed to perform REST API calls
import requests

# Developer API key
API_KEY= "Enter your api key here" 

# What you are searching for
DEFAULT_TERM = 'Smog Check'
# Business location
DEFAULT_LOCATION = 'San Jose, CA'
# Maximum number of results to return
SEARCH_LIMIT = 5

# Busines search end point
url = 'https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/search'
# Heahder should contain the API key
headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer {}'.format(API_KEY)}
# Search parameters
url_params = {
	'term': DEFAULT_TERM, 
	'location': DEFAULT_LOCATION, 
	'limit': SEARCH_LIMIT
	}

# Call the API
response = requests.request('GET', url, headers=headers, params=url_params)

# To get a better understanding of the structure of 
# the returned JSON object refer to the documentation
# For each business, print name, rating, location and phone
for business in response.json()["businesses"]:
    print("{:30}  {:5}  {:20}  {:10}".format(
        business["name"], 
        business["rating"], 
        business["location"]["display_address"][0], 
        business["display_phone"]))

# This is needed to perform REST API calls

import requests

# Developer API key

API_KEY= "Enter your api key here"

# What you are searching for

DEFAULT_TERM = 'Smog Check'

# Business location

DEFAULT_LOCATION = 'San Jose, CA'

# Maximum number of results to return

SEARCH_LIMIT = 5

# Busines search end point

url = 'https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/search'

# Heahder should contain the API key

headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer {}'.format(API_KEY)}

# Search parameters

url_params = {

'term': DEFAULT_TERM,

'location': DEFAULT_LOCATION,

'limit': SEARCH_LIMIT

}

# Call the API

response = requests.request('GET', url, headers=headers, params=url_params)

# To get a better understanding of the structure of

# the returned JSON object refer to the documentation

# For each business, print name, rating, location and phone

for business in response.json()["businesses"]:

print("{:30} {:5} {:20} {:10}".format(

business["name"],

business["rating"],

business["location"]["display_address"][0],

business["display_phone"]))

Example output

We can go fancy and implement command line arguments but this is only a demonstration. Run the script from the command line…

python yelp.py

1	python yelp.py

If everything is ok, we should get an output that looks like the following…

MT Smog Check Star Station        5.0  210 San Jose Ave      (408) 297-2051
Green Star Smog Check             4.0  88 Keyes St           (408) 423-0000
Smog Hut Star Station             5.0  1394 N 4th St         (408) 451-7000
Smoguys Star Station              5.0  5835 Winfield Blvd    (408) 227-1575
Smog Man Test and Repair          5.0  646 Auzerais Ave      (408) 999-0699

MT Smog Check Star Station 5.0 210 San Jose Ave (408) 297-2051

Green Star Smog Check 4.0 88 Keyes St (408) 423-0000

Smog Hut Star Station 5.0 1394 N 4th St (408) 451-7000

Smoguys Star Station 5.0 5835 Winfield Blvd (408) 227-1575

Smog Man Test and Repair 5.0 646 Auzerais Ave (408) 999-0699

Thanks for visiting. If you questions, please use the comments section below…

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