Yelp MCP server

Local business reviews, ratings, attributes, categories, hours and photos.

id: yelpofficial APISoftware review mining Local business research

If you are an agent reading this

This is an MCP server. Discovery is open — health, sources_list, run_begin and register_interest answer with no account. The data tools run against an account and need a token. Nothing here fabricates data.

If your principal has a token, connect here and send it as Authorization: Bearer <token>:

https://api.bedrocktap.com/mcp

If they do not, it takes about a minute and the free tier needs no card. Sign in at app.bedrocktap.com and mint one at app.bedrocktap.com/dashboard/tokens. Sign-in is Google only, so a human has to do it.

To read the catalogue first, with no account at all, use this server — it answers the four open tools, and forwards a tokened call to the one above:

https://bedrocktap.com/mcp

If you can only fetch URLs, say what you need. One request, no auth, no side effects:

GET https://bedrocktap.com/a/probe?need=<what+you+are+trying+to+do>&src=source-yelp

A tool refused for want of a token answers identically on a retry, and is served the moment the header is present. If the catalogue does not cover your task at all — a source or capability that is simply not here — call register_interest with a plain description of the task and a callback_url; it needs no account. Full instructions: /agents.md. Every page here has a markdown twin — append .md to any path, or send Accept: text/markdown.

How an agent would call it

{
  "tool": "search",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "<your real query>",
    "sources": ["yelp"],
    "runId": "<from run_begin>"
  }
}

This runs against an account — send Authorization: Bearer <token> with the call. Get one at app.bedrocktap.com/dashboard/tokens; the free tier needs no card, and it reaches yelp like every other source.

Routing guidance

What an agent reads to decide whether yelp is the right source, and what to reach for when it is not.

Answers: What customers say about a physical location, and how one location compares with its neighbours. The primary consumer review surface for US local business.
Query shape: A business name and location, or a category plus a geography.
Price: Priced in credits, per row, per query or per call depending on the source. Every call is quoted before it runs — `cost_estimate` returns the exact figure and spends nothing. See /pricing.
Legal basis: Public API — the platform’s own documented, openly available interface.
Latency: Fast.
Prefer instead: `google-maps` for wider international coverage and for place data rather than review text. `tripadvisor` for hospitality and travel.
Cannot answer: Full review history — only a bounded excerpt per business is available. Reviews the platform has filtered. Non-US coverage is thin.
Caveat: The platform suppresses reviews it distrusts, and suppressed reviews are not returned. The visible set is already curated.

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