yelp

A guide for collecting business listings from Yelp search pages, Yelp's directory of local businesses and reviews. It uses a real Chrome session to pass the site's automated-traffic check and reads the server-rendered results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to gather business search results, including organic listings and pagination across result pages.
Why use it?
It avoids the 403 response and captcha page returned to basic scraping requests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentcomputerai/torch/yelp
Any agent
npx skills add AgentComputerAI/torch --skill yelp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgentComputerAI/torch

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 125 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,391 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00125 $0.02391
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01196
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00478
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00239

Measured 2d ago against content hash 493cad2260be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

yelp scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

description: Proven scraping playbook for yelp.com search result pages (/search?find_desc=...&find_loc=...). Yelp is behind DataDome — bare curl gets HTTP 403 with `server: DataDome` and a captcha-delivery interstitial.
skills/sites/yelp/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Yelp (yelp.com)

Yelp's SERP is fully server-rendered HTML wrapped in a DataDome anti-bot. The trick is not to fight DataDome — connect to the user's real Chrome and the cookie does the work.

Detection

Signal Value
CDN Fastly (x-served-by: cache-pao-...)
Framework SSR HTML (no __NEXT_DATA__, no React shell)
Anti-bot DataDome (server: DataDome, x-datadome: protected, x-dd-b: 2)
Auth Not required for search
Structured ld+json BreadcrumbList + FAQPage only — no ItemList
robots.txt Disallows /search for most bots, but real users are fine

curl -sL https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=pizza&find_loc=New+York%2C+NYHTTP 403 with a geo.captcha-delivery.com iframe in the body.

Architecture

  • Pure SSR. The full result list ships in the initial HTML — no XHR hydration.
  • Each page returns 10 organic results plus ~13 ad cards ([data-testid="serp-ia-card"]).
  • Pagination is &start=10, &start=20, … (offset, not page number).
  • DataDome enforcement is per-session: the first navigation in a fresh browser context triggers a JS challenge, but a real Chrome with a persistent profile already has a valid datadome cookie and skates through. Disposable Chromium with stealth is NOT enough — DataDome scores it as a bot.

Strategy used

  • Phase 0 (curl): 403 DataDome → escalate.
  • Phase 1 (framework): no Next/Nuxt blob, no API endpoint visible in source → escalate.
  • Phase 2 (browser): puppeteer.connect({ browserURL: "http://127.0.0.1:9222" }) → first nav clears DataDome automatically within ~1.5s, subsequent navs are instant.
  • Phase 3: parse with cheerio, walk leaf-text spans for neighborhood/status/snippet.

Stealth config that works

None. Don't use puppeteer-extra/stealth on the real-Chrome path — Yelp's profile cookie is the entire bypass. Just:

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 163 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 493cad2260be

Subscribe to this mod's changes

yelp is a skill published in the GitHub repository AgentComputerAI/torch (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 2,391 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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