Search for food trucks and street vendors using the Yelp Fusion (Places) Business Search endpoint

domain: api.yelp.com · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Yelp Fusion (Places) business search — food trucks, category filters, and the limits that bite — the full failure-mode walkthrough related to api.yelp.com, checked against official docs, with linked verified routes.

Steps

  1. Create a Yelp developer app at yelp.com/developers to obtain an API key, then call GET https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/search with an Authorization: Bearer <api_key> header
  2. Pass categories=foodtrucks to scope results to the Food Trucks category alias, combined with location (free text) or latitude/longitude plus radius (meters, max 40000)
  3. Use term for keyword narrowing (e.g. 'tacos'), open_now or open_at for availability filtering, and sort_by=distance or best_match
  4. Paginate with limit (max 50 per call) and offset (max 1000), since the endpoint returns at most 240 businesses per search

Known gotchas

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