Summary
A straightforward wrapper around the Yelp Fusion API, letting Claude search for restaurants, read reviews, and pull business details without you needing to wire up OAuth or wrangle API keys yourself. Hosted by Pipeworx as a remote MCP server, so there's nothing to install or run locally. The source doesn't list specific tools, but given it wraps api.yelp.com/v3, you're likely getting business search, reviews, and location lookups. Pipeworx adds an ask_pipeworx function that interprets plain English questions and routes them to the right Yelp endpoint automatically. Useful if you're building location-aware features or need real-world business data in your Claude workflows without managing yet another API integration.
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mcp-yelp
Yelp MCP — wraps the Yelp Fusion API (api.yelp.com/v3)
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1476+ live data sources.
Tools
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
search_businesses | 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" }). |
get_business | Get full details for a single Yelp business by its id or alias. Returns rating, review count, price, categories, address, phone, hours, photos, and coordinates. Example: get_business({ id: "garaje-san-francisco" }). |
get_reviews | ⚠️ UPSTREAM-UNRELIABLE — Yelp Fusion's /reviews endpoint has been 404-ing on most ids since mid-2026 even for valid businesses. PREFER get_business (which sometimes inlines a snippet) or search_businesses for review-context queries. If you must call get_reviews: pass the ENCRYPTED business id (long alphanumeric, e.g. "WavvLdfdP6g8aZTtbBQHTw") returned in search_businesses results — aliases / slugs (e.g. "garaje-san-francisco") reliably 404. Returns up to 3 review snippets per business (rating, text, author, timestamp); "limit" is capped by Yelp upstream regardless of what you pass. |
Quick Start
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"yelp": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/yelp/mcp"
}
}
}
What this endpoint actually serves
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/yelp/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1476+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
Using with ask_pipeworx
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Yelp data" })
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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License
MIT
No MCP client? Call it over HTTP
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_businesses \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"term":"pizza","location":"San Francisco, CA"}'
No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_businesses. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.
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