Get Yelp Review Highlights
View all Yelp Business, Reviews & Restaurant Data endpoints →Request the phrases reviewers mention most for one Yelp business, identified by its alias, 22-character business ID or Yelp business URL. The documented highlight content consists of a phrase, a supporting snippet, a review count and a photo for each highlight. This operation accepts only business; it has no exposed topic, keyword, rating, sort or pagination controls. There is no saved response probe for this operation, and its supplied response example is an empty object. Phrases, snippets, review counts and photos are documented content rather than independently observed fields. The exact JSON keys, envelope, photo representation, nullability, count calculation and empty-result behavior are not established. Do not assume that a count is the business's total review count or that a photo is always available. Use highlights as pointers for further review reading: mention frequency does not establish positive sentiment, an ordered ranking formula or complete coverage of the review corpus.
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/api/project/yelp/review-highlights API Response (JSON)
{} curl -X GET 'https://api.opendata-api.com/api/project/yelp/review-highlights?key=<API_KEY>&business=gary-danko-san-francisco'
Query Result
Use Cases
- Draft a manually reviewed branch briefing card that pairs frequently mentioned phrases with supporting snippets and clearly attributed returned counts.
- Help an editor choose which review themes warrant deeper reading before deciding what to include in a business profile narrative.
- Design a highlight preview that can show an associated photo when available and fall back to text without implying that the image proves review sentiment.
- Compare the returned phrase sets for selected businesses as exploratory editorial leads, without presenting unverified count denominators as a normalized popularity ranking.
Frequently asked questions
What does a review highlight contain?
The documentation describes a frequently mentioned phrase with a supporting snippet, a review count and a photo. No saved probe verifies this endpoint, and the supplied empty-object example does not establish exact JSON keys or populated field formats.
Are frequent phrases necessarily positive recommendations?
No. Mention frequency is not a documented sentiment score. Read the supporting snippets and, where appropriate, inspect fuller reviews before treating a phrase as praise or criticism.
Does the count measure all reviews for the business?
A review count is documented for each highlight, not as a replacement for the business's overall review total. The counting method and denominator are unverified, so do not assume counts can be summed or compared as normalized percentages.
Can I request a particular phrase or another page of highlights?
No such controls are exposed by this contract. business is the only parameter; there are no topic, query, rating, sort or pagination inputs for highlights.
Is every highlight guaranteed to have a usable photo?
Photos are documented, but their representation, nullability and availability were not independently verified. Provide a text-only fallback and confirm the actual response structure before relying on an image field.
Can highlights replace an export of the business's reviews?
No. They are a compact set of phrase-level pointers with snippets, not a documented complete review corpus. Use a review-list workflow for review records and treat highlight coverage as unknown.