Business Search Results are responding with unspecified results, validated with docs site

[drbarq]

Overview

• Client ID: arDiBdZpkyG0HRMeGqINBw
• Issue type: Search Results on api and within documentation
• Summary: a call to https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/search responds with all results except for the provided category
• Platform: Desktop/web, Docs

Description

Hello Team,

Looking for some help with how to interact with the https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/search API.

A request to 'https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/search?location=denver&term=restaurants&categories=Indian&locale=en_US&price=2&sort_by=best_match&limit=20'

Yields results all over the place. This can be validated within the provided documentation site with the first result and through my own testing on my application

More information

This was working earlier in the weekend and earlier today. Am I interacting with the api incorrectly or did something change?

Endpoint

Business Search : https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/search

Parameters or Sample Request

Location: "Denver",
term: "restaurants".
categories: "indian"
price: 2

'https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/search?location=denver&term=restaurants&categories=Indian&locale=en_US&price=2&sort_by=best_match&limit=20'

Response

This is just the first result from the yelp docs page : https://docs.developer.yelp.com/reference/v3_business_search

{
  "businesses": [
    {
      "id": "svJWwW0ilssyqk_UML0mUg",
      "alias": "work-and-class-denver",
      "name": "Work & Class",
      "image_url": "https://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/UVm-9_NVYmstYrMvnfjuEw/o.jpg",
      "is_closed": false,
      "url": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/work-and-class-denver?adjust_creative=arDiBdZpkyG0HRMeGqINBw&utm_campaign=yelp_api_v3&utm_medium=api_v3_business_search&utm_source=arDiBdZpkyG0HRMeGqINBw",
      "review_count": 1777,
      "categories": [
        {
          "alias": "newamerican",
          "title": "New American"
        },
        {
          "alias": "latin",
          "title": "Latin American"
        },
        {
          "alias": "cocktailbars",
          "title": "Cocktail Bars"
        }
      ],
      "rating": 4.5,
      "coordinates": {
        "latitude": 39.75761,
        "longitude": -104.98604
      },
      "transactions": [
        "delivery"
      ],
      "price": "$$",
      "location": {
        "address1": "2500 Larimer St",
        "address2": "Ste 101",
        "address3": "",
        "city": "Denver",
        "zip_code": "80205",
        "country": "US",
        "state": "CO",
        "display_address": [
          "2500 Larimer St",
          "Ste 101",
          "Denver, CO 80205"
        ]
      },
      "phone": "+13032920700",
      "display_phone": "(303) 292-0700",
      "distance": 2801.724901630797
    },
    {
      "id": "GmniFxffmpFcbmb5KWIwbA",
      "alias": "culinary-dropout-denver-denver-4",
      "name": "Culinary Dropout",
      "image_url": "https://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/qMsIbd4zbcsW5yI9jWg3OA/o.jpg",
      "is_closed": false,
      "url": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/culinary-dropout-denver-denver-4?adjust_creative=arDiBdZpkyG0HRMeGqINBw&utm_campaign=yelp_api_v3&utm_medium=api_v3_business_search&utm_source=arDiBdZpkyG0HRMeGqINBw",
      "review_count": 702,
      "categories": [
        {
          "alias": "newamerican",
          "title": "New American"
        }
      ],
      "rating": 4,
      "coordinates": {
        "latitude": 39.73128133284685,
        "longitude": -104.93915937581268
      },
      "transactions": [],
      "price": "$$",
      "location": {
        "address1": "4141 E 9th Ave",
        "address2": "",
        "address3": null,
        "city": "Denver",
        "zip_code": "80220",
        "country": "US",
        "state": "CO",
        "display_address": [
          "4141 E 9th Ave",
          "Denver, CO 80220"
        ]
      },
      "phone": "+17207790190",
      "display_phone": "(720) 779-0190",
      "distance": 2699.046113689636
    },
   }
   

Extra information

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if there is anything else I can provide.

Thank you

[rockdog]

Hi @drbarq,

when executing search with the same parameters as mentioned above all search results seem to be in Denver. So I am not quite sure I fully understand what you mean by "all over the place". What exactly do you think is wrong with the results?