search_businesses
Pack: yelp · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/yelp/mcp
Search for local businesses and restaurants on Yelp by term and location. Returns matching businesses with star ratings, review counts, price, categories, address, and phone. Example: search_businesses({ term: “pizza”, location: “San Francisco, CA” }).
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
term | string | no | Search term, e.g. “coffee”, “pizza”, “plumber”. Optional. |
location | string | no | Location to search, e.g. “San Francisco, CA” or “New York”. Provide this OR latitude+longitude. |
latitude | number | no | Latitude of the search center. Use with longitude instead of location. |
longitude | number | no | Longitude of the search center. Use with latitude instead of location. |
limit | number | no | Number of results to return (default 20, max 50). |
sort_by | string | no | Sort order: “best_match” (default), “rating”, “review_count”, or “distance”. |
price | string | no | Price filter as comma-separated levels 1-4, e.g. “1,2,3” for $ to $$$. |
open_now | boolean | no | If true, only return businesses currently open. |
_apiKey | string | no | Optional — your own Yelp Fusion API key for higher limits; omit to use the shared Pipeworx key. |
Example call
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/yelp/mcp \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_businesses","arguments":{}}}'Connect
Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:
{
"mcpServers": {
"yelp": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/yelp/mcp"
}
}
}See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.