About Yelp
Founded in 2004, yelp.com has evolved from a simple review site into a rich platform for discovering and evaluating local businesses. With tens of millions of listings and over 200 million user reviews worldwide, it’s especially influential in North America, while steadily growing its footprint in the UK, Germany, and Australia.
Yelp covers a vast range of categories — from dentists, HVAC services, and locksmiths to gyms, restaurants, and hair salons. Business profile pages offer much more than basic info: users can browse photos, see “Popular Dishes”, filter by tags like Black-owned or women-owned, and even book reservations or request quotes directly.
All of this data — including reviews, check-ins, ratings, and user uploads — is user-generated and can be extracted by ScrapeIt as structured, filtered datasets. Businesses manage their listings through Yelp for Business, while users contribute valuable content that reflects real-world behavior.
While Yelp does offer a public API, it’s heavily rate-limited and lacks the granularity of full extraction. With advanced search filters like price range, location, business hours, and features, Yelp is more than a directory — it’s a behavior-rich discovery engine packed with signals for local market analysis.
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