Yelp MCP Server

Yelp business search, place details and the full review feed with sorting and star filters, as structured JSON.

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What it can do

  • Hasdata Yelp Place GetPlaceDetails: Get Yelp Place Details Fetches a single Yelp business by Yelp ID or alias with domain targeting. Returns name, address, phone, website, price range, categories, ove
  • Hasdata Yelp Reviews GetPlaceReviews: Get Yelp Place Reviews Fetches the review feed of a single Yelp business by Yelp ID, with sorting (relevance, date, rating, elites), filtering by star rating, lan
  • Hasdata Yelp Search GetSearchResults: Get Yelp Search Results Runs a Yelp business search by keyword and location with optional map-bounded radius via the `l` parameter (g:lon1,lat1,lon2,lat2), domain

What data it sees

Do you need an account

No: the server works without sign-in

Yelp business search, place details and the full review feed with sorting and star filters, as structured JSON. Runs on HasData's hosted API.

How to connect

How to connect Yelp MCP Server to Claude

The server address to paste into Claude settings:

https://yelp-mcp--hasdata.run.tools

  1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
  2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
  3. Click Add custom connector.
  4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
  5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

Authorization

After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

How to connect Yelp MCP Server to ChatGPT

The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

https://yelp-mcp--hasdata.run.tools

  1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
  2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
  3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
  4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
  5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
  6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

Authorization

On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

How to connect Yelp MCP Server to Cursor

The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

https://yelp-mcp--hasdata.run.tools

Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

Manually:

  1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
  2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
  3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

Authorization

If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

Server tool list (3)

Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

hasdata_yelp_place_getPlaceDetailsGet Yelp Place Details Fetches a single Yelp business by Yelp ID or alias with domain targeting. Returns name, address, phone, website, price range, categories, overall rating, review count, hours, amenities, photos, and highlighted reviews. Use to enrich leads or listings with verified Yelp metadata, monitor a competitor's rating and review count over time, or validate hours/amenities before displaying venue details to end users.
hasdata_yelp_reviews_getPlaceReviewsGet Yelp Place Reviews Fetches the review feed of a single Yelp business by Yelp ID, with sorting (relevance, date, rating, elites), filtering by star rating, language and free-text query, and cursor pagination. To page, either step `start` by `num`, or resend the `pagination.nextPageToken` of the previous response as the `nextPageToken` parameter, keeping the other filters unchanged, until `pagination.hasNextPage` is false. The response reports the page it returned as `pagination.start` and `pagination.num`, matching the parameter names. Each review returns the author profile (name, location, review/friend/photo counts, Elite status), full text with language, star rating, timestamp, attached photos and videos, reader reactions, review tags (check-ins, first review, reservation and payment flags) and the owner reply when present. The response also carries the business review totals broken down by rating and by language. Use to monitor customer sentiment over time, mine complaints for a competitor, track how a business responds to negative reviews, or build rating-distribution and review-velocity datasets.
hasdata_yelp_search_getSearchResultsGet Yelp Search Results Runs a Yelp business search by keyword and location with optional map-bounded radius via the `l` parameter (g:lon1,lat1,lon2,lat2), domain targeting, and offset-based pagination. Returns a ranked list of businesses with Yelp alias/ID, name, categories, rating, review count, price tier, neighborhood, and thumbnail. Use the returned aliases as input to the Yelp Place endpoint for full details, to power local-discovery UIs, or to build market-share/competitor datasets for a niche in a given geography.