Introduction

This service serves as a proxy to Yelp's search API. It performs two functions:

It signs a user's request based on user-provided OAuth2 secrets.
It parses returned JSON response and allows users to retrieve data using JSONPath

This service is for education purpose only. It is NOT secure. All OAuth2 secrets are transmitted in plain HTTP headers. Use it at your own peril.

Test with cURL

The following example searches "food" in the location "San Francisco", and retrieves the display_phone of the first found business. The json path used is business.[0].display_phone. The path is specified by the query parameter 'field', and it must be URL encoded.


                  curl -H 'OAUTH-CONSUMER-KEY: yourKey' \
              -H 'OAUTH-CONSUMER-SECRET: yourSecret' \
              -H 'OAUTH-TOKEN: yourToken' \
              -H 'OAUTH-TOKEN-SECRET: yourTokenSecret' \
              'http://yelpproxy.appspot.com/v2/search?term=food&location=San+Francisco&limit=1&field=business.%5B0%5D.display_phone'

For SparkCore code, make sure you write the following headers when making a request


                     GET /v2/search?term=food&location=San+Francisco&limit=1 HTTP/1.1
            Host: yelpproxy.appspot.com
            Accept: */*
            OAUTH-CONSUMER-KEY: Your Consumer Key
            OAUTH-CONSUMER-SECRET: Your Consumer Secret
            OAUTH-TOKEN: Your Token
            OAUTH-TOKEN-SECRET: Your Token Secret