Ten businesses per page
Each with title, alias, rating, reviews, categories, address, phone, neighborhoods, gps_coordinates, snippet and thumbnail.
// yelp search api
The world's cheapest Yelp Search API
Yelp businesses for a search term and location: name, rating, review count, categories, address, phone, neighborhood and coordinates, 10 per page with Yelp's own sort, category and attribute filters. Yelp's own API starts at $229 a month.
$0.15 / 1K requestsPay as you go10 free calls, no card
// live playground
Search Yelp
The key below is created for this browser with 10 free calls and works on every Litescrape endpoint. Results are drawn the way the source shows them, with the JSON one click away.
Your API key
Verifying browser…Paste an existing key to see its credits and top it up, or use the free key created for this browser. Keep it safe: anyone with the key can spend its balance.
Ready
Run the request to draw its results here. This endpoint returns:
organic_resultsads_resultsfiltersrelated_linkssearch_informationpagination
// use it anywhere
Take this exact request to your terminal.
Every public search, maps, place, and reviews endpoint accepts the same bearer key and exposes its full documented parameter surface here.
# pip install litescrape-sdk
# GET https://api.litescrape.com/api/yelp/search
from litescrape_sdk import scrape
[result] = scrape(
[
{
"endpoint": "yelp_search",
"find_desc": "coffee",
"find_loc": "Austin, TX",
"yelp_domain": "www.yelp.com",
"sortby": "recommended",
"start": "0",
}
],
api_key="ls_live_your_key",
)
print(result.raise_for_error())// what you get
What the Yelp Search API returns
Sponsored results kept apart
ads_results holds Yelp's sponsored listings separately from the organic ten.
Sort, category and attribute filters
sortby recommended, rating or review_count; cflt for a category; attrs for Yelp attributes; l for a map bounds token.
Yelp's filter panel
filters returns the price, feature, diet, category, distance and sort options Yelp offered.
More than forty localized sites
yelp_domain takes any supported Yelp site, from www.yelp.com to www.yelp.co.jp.
IDs for the reviews endpoint
place_id and a ready-made reviews_link open Yelp Reviews for each business.
// use cases
What teams build with it
- 01
Lead generation
Every business in a category and city with phone and address, 10 a call.
- 02
Local market research
Ratings, review counts and categories of competitors by neighborhood.
- 03
Rank tracking on Yelp
Where each business lands for a term and location, under each sort.
- 04
Alternative data
Openings, closures and rating drift across a market over time.
// why it's the cheapest
Yelp Search API pricing, per 1,000 requests
Public list prices for 100,000 requests a month, read on September 17, 2026. Litescrape's rate is flat at every volume.
| Provider | Plan modeled | Per 1,000 requests | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Litescrape | Flat prepaid rate | $0.15 | $15.00 |
| Scrapingdog | Standard, 4 credits per search | $0.90 | $90.00 |
| Unwrangle | Starter, 100,000 credits | $0.99 | $99.00 |
| HasData | Basic, 5 credits per search | $0.99 | $99.00 |
| OpenWeb Ninja | Mega, 200,000 requests | $1.50 | $150.00 |
| Yelp Fusion | Base, 30,000 calls plus overage | $6.43 | $643.00 |
| Bright Data | Web Scraper API | $1.50 per 1,000 businesses returned |
Start pulling Yelp Search data in five minutes.
Your first 10 calls are free. Top up the same key from $10 whenever you need more.