Yelp MCP server

Connect Yelp to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot and any other MCP client, for your whole team. Metorial adds security, governance, and tracing, and gives everyone one Magic MCP URL to connect.

What you can do with the Yelp MCP server

Ask your agent in plain language. Each of these maps to a real tool on the server.

  • Use the autocomplete tool in Yelp
  • Use the get reviews tool in Yelp
  • Use the search businesses tool in Yelp
  • Use the search by transaction tool in Yelp
  • Use the get business details tool in Yelp
  • Use the ai chat tool in Yelp

Supported Tools

autocomplete

Autocomplete

Get real-time autocomplete suggestions as users type. Returns suggestions for search terms, businesses, and categories. Providing location coordinates improves suggestion relevance.

get_reviews

Get Reviews

Retrieve review excerpts for a specific Yelp business. Returns review excerpts (approximately 160 characters each) along with the reviewer's name, rating, and profile URL. Yelp documents up to three excerpts for this endpoint; access requires an Enhanced or Premium plan.

search_businesses

Search Businesses

Search for businesses on Yelp by keyword, category, location, price level, and more. Supports searching by text query with location (address or coordinates), filtering by price, open status, and business attributes. Results are sorted by best match by default but can be sorted by rating, review count, or distance.

search_transactions

Search by Transaction

Search for businesses that support specific transaction types, such as food delivery or pickup. Currently supports "delivery" for food delivery businesses in the US.

get_business_details

Get Business Details

Retrieve detailed information about a specific Yelp business. Returns comprehensive data including name, address, phone, photos, rating, price level, hours of operation, special hours, messaging info, and business attributes. You can look up a business by its Yelp business ID or its URL alias.

ai_chat

AI Chat

Have a conversational interaction with Yelp's AI for local business discovery. Send natural language queries like "Best sushi near downtown" and receive natural language responses along with structured business data. Supports multi-turn conversations by passing back the chatId from a previous response.

match_business

Match Business

Find the Yelp business ID for a known business by matching on name, address, and other attributes. Use this when you have a business's real-world information and need to find its corresponding Yelp entry.

search_by_phone

Search by Phone

Find Yelp businesses by phone number. Useful for looking up a specific business when you have its phone number. Multiple businesses may share the same phone number (e.g., chain stores or businesses in the same building).

list_categories

List Categories

Discover Yelp business category aliases and names for search filters. Optionally restrict and localize categories by locale.

get_category

Get Category

Retrieve a Yelp business category and its parent and country restrictions. Call list_categories to discover category aliases.

Connect Yelp to your AI client

Every client uses the same Magic MCP URL, and so does any other MCP client. Add it once and sign in with SSO.

  1. Enable Yelp in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Yelp MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
  2. Add a custom connector. Open Customize, then Connectors. Select Add, then Custom, then Web.
  3. Paste your Metorial MCP URL. Name it Metorial, paste your Magic MCP URL (<your-magic-mcp-url>) and continue.
  4. Sign in. Select Add and sign in to load Yelp tools.

Run Yelp through the Metorial gateway

One governed layer for every app your agents reach, not a separate connector per tool.

  • Give Yelp and every other app to your whole team through one MCP gateway, behind your SSO.
  • Scope which teams and agents can use Yelp tools with role-based access control, and trace every call.
  • Prefer to run it yourself? Metorial is open source and self-hostable.

More integrations teams use with Yelp

GitHub

Manage repositories, issues, and pull requests. Create and configure branches, star repositories, review code, and merge changes. Automate CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions, manage workflow runs, secrets, and artifacts. Track issues with labels, milestones, and assignees. Search across code, repositories, issues, and users. Manage organizations, teams, and memberships. Create and manage projects, gists, packages, deployments, and environments. Access security alerts including code scanning, secret scanning, and Dependabot alerts. Read and write file contents in repositories. Manage webhooks, notifications, and codespaces.

Salesforce

Manage CRM data including Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities, Cases, and custom objects. Create, read, update, and delete records. Query data using SOQL and search across objects using SOSL. Perform bulk data operations for large-scale imports, exports, and migrations. Execute composite requests to batch multiple operations in a single API call. Access analytics, reports, and dashboards. Manage files and attachments associated with records. Interact with Chatter feeds, posts, and groups for social collaboration. Manage org metadata including custom objects, fields, layouts, and workflows. Query data using GraphQL for precise data retrieval across related objects.

Apolloio

Search and prospect B2B contacts and companies from a database of over 275 million people and 70 million organizations. Enrich people and company data with emails, phone numbers, and firmographic details. Create and manage contacts, accounts, deals, and tasks. Add contacts to email sequences and manage sequence statuses. Log and search call records. Perform bulk operations for contact creation, account creation, task creation, and data enrichment.

Sharepoint

Manage SharePoint sites, document libraries, lists, and files. Create, read, update, and delete lists and list items with custom columns. Resolve site users to numeric Person/Group LookupId values. Upload, download, move, copy, and version files in document libraries. Search across sites, files, folders, lists, and list items using Microsoft Search. Manage permissions at site, list, and item levels with granular access control. Define and manage content types and site columns. Retrieve site properties and search for sites across Microsoft 365.

Hubspot

Create, read, update, and delete CRM objects including contacts, companies, deals, tickets, and custom objects. Manage associations between CRM records. Track engagements such as calls, emails, meetings, notes, and tasks. Send transactional and marketing emails, manage campaigns, and handle subscription preferences. Build and manage marketing workflows, sequences, and automation actions. Manage CMS content including blog posts, landing pages, and HubDB tables. Handle commerce data including products, orders, invoices, quotes, and payments. Create and manage contact lists for segmentation. Configure deal, ticket, and order pipelines with custom stages. Search and filter CRM records. Bulk import and export CRM data. Manage users, teams, and account settings.

Airtable

Create, read, update, and delete records in Airtable bases and tables. Manage base schemas including creating tables and fields. Filter records using formulas, sort by fields, and scope queries to specific views. Upsert records to find, create, or update in a single call. Upload attachments to records, read and write record comments, list accessible bases, and receive real-time base change events through webhooks.

Technical notes for Yelp

Search for local businesses by keyword, category, location, phone number, price level, and transaction type. Retrieve detailed business information including name, address, phone, photos, ratings, hours, and price levels. Access review excerpts and review highlights for businesses. Provide real-time autocomplete suggestions for business, term, and category searches. Match businesses by name and address to obtain Yelp Business IDs. Use conversational AI chat for natural language local business discovery. Manage business listings, respond to reviews, handle leads, book reservations, and manage advertising programs via partner APIs. Retrieve engagement metrics, advertising performance data, and location analytics.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about connecting Yelp to AI agents with Metorial.

  1. How many tools does the Yelp MCP server have?
    The Yelp MCP server exposes 10 tools, including Autocomplete, Get Reviews, Search Businesses. Each one is governed and traced through Metorial.
  2. Yelp exposes tools your agents call on demand; it does not publish event triggers yet. Everything still runs through one governed MCP URL.
  3. Any MCP client, including VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, OpenCode and Grok. Each one reaches the Yelp MCP server through the same Metorial URL.
  4. Use role-based access control to decide which teams, users, and agents can use Yelp and which of its tools they can call.
  5. Yes. Metorial is open source, so you can run the Yelp MCP server yourself or use the hosted gateway.

Connect Yelp to production AI agents

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