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Automate Yelp

Local businesses use Yelp automations to watch their reputation: new reviews on their listing, with low ratings flagged, and a weekly look at how their rating and review count compare with nearby competitors. Say what you want to know to your AI assistant, approve what it sets up, and it checks Yelp for you.

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 3 hours, check my Yelp business page for new reviews and email me each one, marking 1-2 star reviews as urgent.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in Yelp

These catch new reviews on your listing and track how your rating moves against the businesses you compete with. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
Every 3 hours

Get emailed about new Yelp reviews, low ratings first

An email arrives for each new review on your listing, with 1 and 2 star reviews marked urgent.

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Weekly

Compare your Yelp rating with competitors every Monday

A Monday email puts your rating and review count next to three competitors, with each change since last week.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Yelp, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Yelp automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Yelp should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Every morning, check my business's Yelp reviews and alert me about any new review of 3 stars or lower, with AI suggesting a reply.

Every day, add new Yelp reviews for my restaurant to Google Sheets with rating, date and text.

Every week, compare my Yelp rating and review count with three nearby competitors, log it in Google Sheets, and post the comparison to Slack.

Beyond chat

Have Yelp work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Yelp to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect Yelp

Yelp uses an API key from its developer portal. Create an app there and save the key as a secret.

Yelp

Local / Reviews

  1. Open Yelp's developer portal and create an app.
  2. Copy the API Key shown for the app.
  3. Save it as a secret on Connections & secrets in the ClickRuntime dashboard.
  4. If the key ever leaks, disable it on the same portal page, create a new one and replace the saved secret.

Good to know

Yelp limits that affect automations

  • The free trial lasts 30 days, is for evaluation only, and needs a paid Yelp plan after that.
  • New clients get 500 calls per day; over the cap Yelp returns 429 until it resets at midnight UTC.
  • Each review lookup returns only a few review excerpts, not the full review history.
  • Yelp's terms limit storing its content, so automations keep review IDs rather than copies of reviews.

FAQ

Questions about automating Yelp

Can ClickRuntime reply to Yelp reviews?
No. The key gives read access to business details and review excerpts. Replies are written on Yelp itself.
Will I see every new review?
Yelp's API returns a small number of review excerpts per business, so a check every few hours catches new ones as they appear among those excerpts.
Is the Yelp API free?
There is a 30-day evaluation trial. After that Yelp requires a paid plan for continued use.
Can I compare my business with competitors?
Yes. Give the Yelp business pages, and the weekly tracker reports each one's rating and review count with the change since last week.
Do I need an AI key?
No. These automations use no AI, and if you add an AI step later, AI comes with every plan.
Is this a Yelp connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Yelp data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Yelp while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Yelp event.

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