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Platform API endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.

Production API
Platform API endpoint
https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/yelp/search
Authorization header
Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY
# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
  -X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/yelp/search" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
  "start": 0,
  "sortby": "recommended",
  "find_loc": "Austin, TX",
  "find_desc": "coffee"
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
printf '%s\n' "$result"

2. Authentication

Set your SandBase API key in your server environment. Requests use Bearer authentication.

API key environment variable
export SANDBASE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

Keep your key on the server. Do not expose it in browser code.

3. Parameters

find_locstringrequired

Search location, 1 to 500 characters.

find_descstring

Business name, category, or search terms, up to 500 characters.

yelp_domainstring

Supported first-party localized Yelp hostname, such as www.yelp.co.uk. Links in the response use this hostname.

lstring

Yelp map-bounds token, up to 1,024 characters.

cfltstring

Yelp category identifier, such as coffee.

sortbystring

Result order.

Default: "recommended"

Possible values: recommended, rating, review_count

attrsstring

Comma-separated Yelp attribute filters, such as OutdoorSeating; up to 4,096 characters.

startinteger

Result offset from 0 through 10,000.

Default: 0

timeoutnumber

Optional budget for the entire request in seconds, measured from gateway receipt until the response is ready to send. Includes admission, queueing and settlement. Must be greater than 0 and at most 90. On expiry, the call is not billed and returns 503 request_deadline_exceeded with retryable=true an

4. Response

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