Location Subscriptions

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Still using Location Subscription API v1?

Please see Location Subscription API v2 changelog for the changes between Location Subscriptions API v1 and v2. This guide only describes migrating from Location Subscriptions API v2 to Business Subscriptions API.

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Important Note

All existing subscriptions will still remain and can already be retrieved and managed using the Business Subscriptions API. Data between both APIs is kept in sync.

Migration Steps

1. Reach out to [email protected] to help you get started with your Yelp Fusion App. If you're already using other Yelp Fusion APIs you might be able to reuse that App.
2. Follow the changelog below to adjust your application

Changes

• New authentication method
• New endpoint urls, different request schemas, same response schemas.
• Improved error case documentation

New endpoints

The Business Subscriptions API exposes new URLs and expects new request schemas. To continue retrieving/creating/removing Location Subscriptions Subscriptions or retrieve quota information, the following changes have to be made.
See Business Subscriptions API Reference for more details about the new endpoints.

Get quota

Old: GET https://partner-api.yelp.com/syndication/quota/v2
New: GET https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/subscriptions/YELP_KNOWLEDGE/quota

Notes

• Specify subscription_type in url

Get subscriptions

Old: GET https://partner-api.yelp.com/syndication/businesses/v2
New: GET https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/subscriptions?subscription_type=YELP_KNOWLEDGE

Notes

• Specify subscription_type in url.
• Response additionally includes subscription_type, retains all other fields.

Create new subscriptions

Old:

POST https://partner-api.yelp.com/syndication/businesses/add/v2
Body:
{
    "business_ids": ["bzRqPKp63X0u6fUtbg"]
}
Response code: 204

New:

POST https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/subscriptions
{
    "subscription_types": ["YELP_KNOWLEDGE"],
    "business_ids": ["bzRqPKp63X0u6fUtbg"]
}
Response code: 202

Notes

• Specify subscription_types for which to subscribe in body.
• Successful response code changed from 204 to 202.

Remove subscriptions

Old:

POST https://partner-api.yelp.com/syndication/businesses/remove/v2
{
    "business_ids": ["VXi7gzRqPKp63X0u6fUtbg"] 
}
Response code: 204

New:

DELETE https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/subscriptions
{
    "subscription_types": ["YELP_KNOWLEDGE"]
    "business_ids": ["VXi7gzRqPKp63X0u6fUtbg"] 
}
Response code: 202

Notes

• Specify subscription_types for which to subscribe in body.
• Successful response code changed from 204 to 202.
• HTTP Method changed from POST to DELETE.

New authentication method

Authentication was simplified and is now using a Yelp Fusion App.

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Set up required.

Please reach out to [email protected] to get your Fusion App set up for access to Business Subscriptions API.

Click here for all details of Yelp Fusion Authentication

Errors

• renamed id to code for consistency with other Yelp API errors
• Improved documentation to clarify what kind of http statuses and error codes are expected in particular scenarios

Example

Instead of

HTTP Status Code: 413
{
  "error": {
    "id": "ERROR_ID",
    "description": "The number of businesses in the request exceeded the maximum (500)",
  }
}

the API will now return

HTTP Status Code: 413
{
  "error": {
    "code": "ERROR_ID",
    "description": "The number of businesses in the request exceeded the maximum (500)"
  }
}