Yelp Restaraunt API Proxy

Backend API Proxy for my submission for the MindSumo CapitalOne Restaurant Challenge

Deployment

This is deployed using nginx and wsgi on a DigitalOcean droplet (512MB ram).

Local Deployment

To run this locally, simply install the requirements (in a virtualenv) and then run python app.py.

apt-get install virtualenv
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

This API proxy makes use of Flask-CORS, making cross-origin AJAX possible. This means that you can call this API proxy from any domain.

/business

Uses Yelp Business Search

POST

Parameters:

• location: Required. Specifies the combination of "address, neighborhood, city, state or zip, optional country" to be used when searching for businesses.
• term: Optional. Search term (e.g. "food", "restaurants"). If term isn’t included we search everything. The term keyword also accepts business names such as "Starbucks".