scrape_yelp: Get Business Names & Addresses from Yelp

In Ottawa-Neighbourhood-Study/onsr: Ottawa Neighbourhood Study (ONS) Common Functions

Get Business Names & Addresses from Yelp

Description

To support the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study in refreshing its food availability database, this function does a perfunctory Yelp search for a given term in a given location.

Usage

scrape_yelp(search_term, location = "Ottawa, ON", num_pages = 24)

Arguments

search_term	Character string to search Yelp for.
location	Character string containing the location to search. Defaults to "Ottawa, ON".
num_pages	The number of pages to search. Defaults to 24.

Details

Results include business names and addresses. This function could be improved but it works for what we need now, and Yelp is very protective of its data. Be warned that scraping too much too quickly may get your IP address blocked.

Value

A tibble with Yelp search results.

Examples

## Not run: 
convenience_stores <- scrape_yelp("convenience stores")

## End(Not run)

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