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Yelp Make integrationAutomate Yelp with Make.

Need Yelp data in your tools without copying it by hand? The Yelp Make integration gives you 7 modules: 3 actions and 4 searches, with no trigger. This guide is for ops and marketing teams: connect your API key, then build a first scenario that turns a phone number into reviews.

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What you can automate

What can the Yelp Make integration do for you?

The Yelp Make integration links your Yelp developer account to Make, so a scenario (the automation you build, a chain of modules) can look up businesses, read their reviews and find events without anyone opening Yelp. A module is one brick of that chain: here, 3 actions and 4 searches that feed the other apps you already use.

Review watch for your locations. List Business Reviews returns the reviews Yelp shows for a business, one bundle (one item passed to the next module) per review. Send them to a sheet or a team chat and nobody has to refresh the Yelp page to spot a new complaint.

Lead enrichment from a phone number. A sales rep often has a number and little else. Search Businesses by Phone finds the matching business, and Get a Business Details pulls the rest of what Yelp holds on it into your CRM record.

Local event and prospect lists. Search Businesses and Search Events return every match as its own bundle, which is exactly what a prospect sheet or an event newsletter needs as raw material.

What Make does not do here: Yelp has no trigger module, so a scenario starts from another app or from Make's schedule. The Make documentation for this app also warns that it was written with AI from Yelp's docs, so check important details with Yelp. If the budget question comes first, Make pricing breaks down the plans; to learn the editor properly, see Make training. The same kind of app often exists as an n8n node too, and n8n vs Make lays out how the two tools differ.

Connect

How do you connect Yelp to Make?

  1. 01

    Get your Yelp API key

    Create a Yelp developer account first. In your Yelp account, open the application management page, select your application in the list and copy the API key it displays. Keep that tab open: the key goes into Make in the next step.

  2. 02

    Open the connection window in Make

    Add any Yelp module to your scenario and click Create a connection. The Connection name field is optional; a clear name such as the Yelp account owner helps when several people share the same Make team.

  3. 03

    Paste the key and confirm

    Enter the credentials you copied from Yelp, or follow the instructions Make shows on screen. The connection (your Yelp account linked to Make once) is then reused by all 7 Yelp modules, so you only do this setup one time.

First scenario

Your first scenario: from a phone number to Yelp reviews

GoalWhen a new lead with a phone number lands in your CRM, Make finds the matching business on Yelp and lists its reviews.

  1. 01

    Create the scenario

    On the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the + to add the first module. Pick the app where your leads arrive, your CRM or a sheet, since Yelp itself has no trigger.

  2. 02

    Add Search Businesses by Phone

    Click the + on the right of the first module, search for Yelp and choose Search Businesses by Phone. Click Create a connection and paste your API key if it is your first Yelp module.

  3. 03

    Map the phone number

    Where the module asks for the phone number, map the one coming from the lead module instead of typing one. Each new lead then drives its own search, with no copy and paste on your side.

  4. 04

    Add List Business Reviews

    Click the + again, pick List Business Reviews and map the business returned by the search. Add a sheet or chat module after it if you want the reviews delivered somewhere your team reads.

  5. 05

    Test, schedule and switch on

    Click Run once and open the bundles each module received to check the business and reviews. Then set the schedule on the first module, every 15 minutes by default, and switch the scenario on.

Modules

What each Yelp module does

Yelp gives you 7 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

Yelp1

Get a Business Details

Action

In Make“Returns information about a business.”

You get the full profile Yelp holds on one business you already identified, ready to write into a CRM record or a row of your sheet.

When to use it
right after a search module found the business, when a line in a result list is not enough and you want everything Yelp returns about it.
Watch out
it handles one business per operation, so after a search that returns several bundles it runs once for each and counts one operation every time.
Yelp2

Get an Event Details

Action

In Make“Returns information about the event.”

This one hands you what Yelp publishes about a single event, so a newsletter tool or a shared calendar receives the details instead of a bare link.

When to use it
after Search Events, once you have narrowed the results down to the event your audience actually cares about.
Watch out
the module needs to know which event to fetch; map it from the search rather than pasting a value, or the scenario keeps fetching the same event.
Yelp3

Make an API Call

Action

In Make“Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.”

Reach any part of the Yelp API that the six other modules leave out, using the same connection and the same API key you already set up.

When to use it
you need an endpoint Yelp offers but Make has no dedicated module for, and you would rather stay in one scenario than add a separate tool.
Watch out
you describe the request yourself, so keep Yelp's own API documentation open and test with Run once before mapping its output anywhere.
Yelp4

List Business Reviews

Search

In Make“Lists reviews for a business.”

Pulls the reviews Yelp shows for a business. Each one travels on as its own bundle, so your sheet gets one row per review.

When to use it
keeping an eye on your own locations or on a competitor, with the reviews routed straight to the people who answer customers.
Watch out
no reviews, no bundles. The modules after it then do nothing, so test on a business you know has reviews.
Yelp5

Search Businesses

Search

In Make“Searches for businesses.”

Turns a Yelp search into structured data: every business that matches comes back as a separate bundle your next modules can sort, filter or store.

When to use it
building a list of local businesses to contact, or checking which shops of a given kind Yelp lists in an area you serve.
Watch out
every module placed after it runs once per business found, so a broad search multiplies the operations counted on your plan.
Yelp6

Search Businesses by Phone

Search

In Make“Searches for businesses by phone number.”

Give it a phone number and it tells you which Yelp business sits behind it, the fastest way to put a name and a profile on an inbound lead.

When to use it
a form, a call log or a CRM hands you a number and nothing else, and sales wants context before calling back.
Watch out
as a search, it can return zero, one or several businesses for the same number, so plan what the scenario does in each case.
Yelp7

Search Events

Search

In Make“Search for events.”

Collects events listed on Yelp and returns each one as a bundle, raw material for a local agenda, a community page or a marketing calendar.

When to use it
your business lives off local activity, like a venue, a bar or a tourism office, and you want the upcoming events in one place.
Watch out
results arrive as a list; add Get an Event Details only for the events you keep, not for every result, to save operations.
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FAQ

Yelp and Make: common questions

01Is the Yelp Make integration free?
Yes on the Make side: Yelp is a standard app, available from the Free plan. That plan allows 2 active scenarios, a minimum of 15 minutes between scheduled runs, up to 5 minutes per execution, files up to 5 MB and 512 MB of data transfer. Paid plans (Core, Pro, Teams, Enterprise) bring the interval down to 1 minute, remove the cap on active scenarios and count usage in credits each month. On the Yelp side, you need a developer account and an API key, and the Make documentation points to Yelp's pricing page for the subscription.
02What do you need to connect Yelp to Make?
A Yelp developer account and the API key of your application. You find the key on Yelp's application management page: select your application and copy the key shown. In Make, add a Yelp module, click Create a connection, optionally name the connection, then paste the key or follow the on-screen instructions. That single connection is shared by the 7 Yelp modules, so every new scenario reuses it. Check the subscription terms on Yelp's pricing page before you start, as the documentation recommends.
03Does the Yelp Make integration react in real time?
No, because Yelp has no trigger module in Make. The scenario starts from something else: the trigger of another app, such as a new lead in your CRM or a new row in a sheet, or Make's own schedule on the first module. A new scenario runs every 15 minutes by default; the Free plan cannot go below 15 minutes, while paid plans go down to 1 minute. If the other app offers an instant trigger, the Yelp lookups run as soon as that app calls Make.
04What if a Yelp module you need is missing in Make?
Use Make an API Call. It calls any endpoint of the Yelp API from your scenario with the connection you already created, which covers what the 6 other modules do not. You write the request yourself, so keep Yelp's API documentation at hand. Also note that Make's page for this app states it was generated with AI from Yelp's documentation and may contain mistakes; for anything important, such as what a field returns, confirm it with Yelp directly before building on it.
05Should you use Make or n8n for Yelp?
It depends on your team more than on Yelp. In Make, Yelp comes with 7 ready modules, a visual editor and a connection shared by all of them, which suits people who build their own automations without code. Apps like Yelp often have an n8n node too, so check that the operations you need exist there before you compare. Then pick the tool your team already uses and can maintain; neither choice changes what Yelp's API lets you read.
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