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Is there a maximum number of categories that can be returned in the Yelp API?

If I made an api call like the one below:

from yelpapi import YelpAPI

yelpApi = YelpAPI(consumerKey, consumerSecret, token, tokenSecret)
searchResults = yelpApi.search_query(name = 'food', location='San Jose, CA')

Is there a maximum amount of responses that could be returned for the category section of the response for any given business (e.g. searchResults['businesses'][0]['categories'])?

Solution

  • While this isn't a terribly authoritative source, a quick search turned up this article featuring the claim that there are 698 possible categories (at the time of writing) and any individual business can be tagged with up to three at maximum.