Local & Maps

List reviews of a Yelp business · Yelp API

GET/yelp/businesses/{id}/reviews

$min $0.006

Returns public reviews of a Yelp business with rating, text, author, photos and owner replies. Choose recommended, not-recommended or removed reviews with `category`. Paginate with `cursor`.

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Request

curl https://api.unifapi.com/yelp/businesses/{id}/reviews \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"

Parameters

idpathrequired: Yelp business alias, as in yelp.com/biz/{id}.
categoryquery: Review category to return. Default: `recommended`.
cursorquery: Opaque pagination cursor from a previous response's `pagination.next_cursor`. Omit for the first page.
: The parameter for this Yelp operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.

Overview

This operation is part of the Yelp API in the local & maps category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.

Use it when a workflow needs Yelp public data alongside other maps and local-business sources, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.

Common agent workflows

Look up public Yelp data for agents that need reliable open-web context.
Give an AI agent a stable Yelp data source without building a per-platform integration.
Normalize Yelp responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.

Response shape

Unified envelope, platform-native fields

List-style responses return `data` as an array of top-level records plus optional `pagination` for continuation tokens or cursors.
The operation has a 6 credits ($0.006) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
If the workspace balance cannot cover every result, the response can be truncated and `billing.truncated_due_to_balance` tells the caller why.

Response status codes

200400401402404429500502503

Billing

This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 6 credits ($0.006) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.

Errors and retries

Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.

Response fields

Fields on each record in data

A successful List reviews of a Yelp business call returns data as an array; each record carries these fields (12 of 20 shown — the docs list the full schema).

review_idstring | null
user_idstring | null
namestring | null
linkstring | null
thumbnailstring | null
addressstring | null: Reviewer's home location as Yelp shows it. Recommended reviews give city and country (for example "Los Angeles, United States"); not-recommended and removed reviews give city and state or region (for example "Los Angeles, CA").
friendsnumber | null
reviewsnumber | null
photosnumber | null
elite_yearstring | null: Four-digit year of the reviewer's current Yelp Elite badge (for example "2026"); null when the reviewer is not Elite.
ratingnumber | null
datestring | null

Related endpoints

More Yelp operations

Combine endpoints from the same platform, then join the results with other UnifAPI categories without changing authentication or response parsing.

GET/yelp/businesses/{id}