# Yelp Search API
| Parameters | Description |
| :--------------------------------------------------------------: | :-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: |
| api\_key
required
| This is your API key. |
| find\_desc | Type: String
The query you want to search.
|
| find\_loc
required
| Type: String
The location you want to target to scrape the search results.
For example:
- San Francisco, CA
- New York, NY, United States
|
| l | Type: String
The distance or map radius you want to get search results from.
|
| yelp\_domain | Type: String
The domain you want to use to scrape the search results.
|
| cflt | Type: String
It is used to define the category of search results you want.
|
| sortby | Type: String
It is used for sorting the result.
recommended - Recommended(default)
rating - Highest rated
review\_count - Most reviewed
|
| attrs | Type: String
It is used for refining the search results according to the value you pass in attrs parameter.
|
| start | Type: Number(Integer)
\[0,10,20....]
Default: 0
(Enter 10 for 2nd-page results, 20 for 3rd, etc .)
The page number to get targeted search results.
|
**Note: Each Yelp API call would cost you 4 request credits.**
### API Example:
{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}
```json
cURL "https://api.serpdog.io/yelp?api_key=APIKEY&find_desc=burger&find_loc=San+Francisco,CA"
```
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Node JS" %}
```javascript
const axios = require('axios');
axios.get('https://api.serpdog.io/yelp?api_key=APIKEY&find_desc=burger&find_loc=San+Francisco,CA')
.then(response => {
console.log(response.data);
})
.catch(error => {
console.log(error);
});
```
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Python" %}
```python
import requests
payload = {'api_key': 'APIKEY', 'find_desc':'burger' , 'find_loc':'San+Francisco,CA'}
resp = requests.get('https://api.serpdog.io/yelp?', params=payload)
print (resp.text)
```
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Java" %}
```java
try {
String url = "https://api.serpdog.io/yelp?api_key=APIKEY&find_desc=burger&find_loc=San+Francisco,CA";
URL urlForGetRequest = new URL(url);
String readLine = null;
HttpURLConnection conection = (HttpURLConnection) urlForGetRequest.openConnection();
conection.setRequestMethod("GET");
int responseCode = conection.getResponseCode();
if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conection.getInputStream()));
StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
while ((readLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
response.append(readLine);
}
in.close();
System.out.println(response.toString());
} else {
throw new Exception("Error in API Call");
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
```
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Ruby" %}
```ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
params = {
:api_key => "APIKEY",
:find_desc => "burger",
:find_loc => "San+Francisco,CA"
}
uri = URI('https://api.serpdog.io/yelp')
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form(params)
website_content = Net::HTTP.get(uri)
print(website_content)
```
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="PHP" %}
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