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A Yelp API alternative on fetcher.sh — pay-per-call in USDC via x402, or prepaid credits with a Bearer key, no Yelp Fusion API app approval. Use when the user wants to search local businesses by query and location sorted by rating or review count, fetch a business's full details by ID or by its Yelp URL handle/slug, or fetch a business's reviews. Also covers local business discovery, restaurant/service research, review sentiment input, and competitor monitoring for local businesses without Yelp Fusion API's app-approval process and daily call caps.

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Added on2026-08-26

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills yelp

SKILL.md Content

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Yelp API

Local business search, business details, and reviews as clean JSON — one plain HTTP GET per call, paid as you go. No Yelp Fusion API app approval, no daily call cap, no API key request form.

Base URL:

https://yelp.fetcher.sh

Authentication

Two ways to pay, same data — full mechanics in the

fetcher

skill:

bash

# 1. Prepaid credits (recommended — get a key at https://fetcher.sh/topup
#    or via POST /api/credits/topup, see the fetcher skill)
export FETCHER_API_KEY="bby_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://yelp.fetcher.sh/api/search?query=ramen&location=San+Francisco"

# 2. x402 pay-per-call — omit the header; a GET with no payment returns 402
#    with machine-readable payment requirements (USDC on Base, Polygon,
#    Arbitrum, Monad, or Solana). @x402/fetch signs and retries automatically.

Every response is

{ "status": number, "message": string, "data": ... }

; the HTTP status mirrors

status

.

Endpoints (4 — all GET, $0.003/call)

Endpoint	What it returns
`/api/search`	Businesses matching a query and location
`/api/place/{id}`	A business's full details by ID
`/api/place/handle/{handle}`	A business's full details by its Yelp URL handle/slug
`/api/place/{id}/reviews`	A business's reviews

Required on search:

query

,

location

. Optional:

sortBy

(

recommended

,

rating

,

reviewCount

),

page

. Reviews support

page

.

Scenarios

Highest rated first:

bash

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "query=ramen" -G \
  --data-urlencode "location=San Francisco" \
  --data-urlencode "sortBy=rating" \
  "https://yelp.fetcher.sh/api/search"

Most reviewed first:

bash

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "query=tacos" -G \
  --data-urlencode "location=Austin, TX" \
  --data-urlencode "sortBy=reviewCount" \
  "https://yelp.fetcher.sh/api/search"

A business's details by ID, or by its Yelp URL handle/slug:

bash

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://yelp.fetcher.sh/api/place/gary-danko-san-francisco"

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://yelp.fetcher.sh/api/place/handle/gary-danko-san-francisco"

A business's reviews, paginated:

bash

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "page=2" -G \
  "https://yelp.fetcher.sh/api/place/gary-danko-san-francisco/reviews"

MCP

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yelp": {
      "url": "https://yelp.fetcher.sh/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer bby_live_..." }
    }
  }
}

Free:

search_endpoints

,

describe_endpoint

,

check_balance

. Paid:

fetch_data

(any endpoint above),

topup_credits

, plus the named shortcut

yelp_search

. Drop the

headers

block to pay per call with x402 instead — see the

fetcher

skill for the full flow.

Errors

```
400
```
— missing/invalid parameter (message names it)
```
401
```
— unknown or rotated key
```
402
```
— payment required (x402 challenge) or
```
topup_required
```
(credits exhausted)
```
404
```
— not a priced path
No rate limits; no refunds on upstream failures (settlement precedes delivery)

Reference

Full agent setup: https://yelp.fetcher.sh/skill.md
OpenAPI 3.1 contract: https://yelp.fetcher.sh/openapi.json
Condensed catalog: https://yelp.fetcher.sh/llms.txt
Payment, credits, and MCP deep dive:
```
fetcher
```
skill
Site: https://yelp.fetcher.sh

yelp

NPX Install

Tags

SKILL.md Content

Yelp API

Authentication

Endpoints (4 — all GET, $0.003/call)

Scenarios

MCP

Errors

Reference