Maximum of 200 businesses returned by /businesses/search

[danfooo]

According to the docs, the API should return up to 1000 businesses. However no matter what coordinates I try with, I never seem to get more than 200.

My requests are paged with the maximum limit of 50, my search looks roughly like this:

const MAX_BUSINESSES = 1000;

function requestBusinesses(data, city, authHeader, offset, doneCallback) {
  const limitPerRequest = 50;
  let url = 'https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/search';
  const getParams = {
    sort_by: 'review_count',
    radius: 40000,
    limit: limitPerRequest,
    latitude: city.Latitude,
    longitude: city.Longitude
  };
  if (offset) {
    getParams.offset = offset;
  }
  url += '?' + queryString.stringify(getParams);

  request.get({
    url,
    headers: {
      Authorization: authHeader,
    }
  }, function(error, response, body) {
    body = JSON.parse(body);
    const businesses = body.businesses;
    if (businesses) {
      data.push(...businesses);
      offset += businesses.length;

      const hasAll = data.length >= MAX_BUSINESSES;
      const exhausted = businesses.length < limitPerRequest;
      if (!hasAll && !exhausted) {
        requestBusinesses(data, city, authHeader, offset, doneCallback);
      }
      else {
        if(exhausted) {
          console.log('Stopped collecting businesses, API doesn\'t have any more.');
        }
        doneCallback();
      }
    }
  });
}

[tomelm]

Hey @danfooo, this is a gap in our documentation. Sorting by review_count maxes out at 200, sorting by best_match will give you 1000. We'll update the docs.

[lhxatus]

Hi @tomelm is sorting by distance maxes out at 200 as well? I have limit set to 50 and returned data always has an empty businesses array after offset>=200. I'm using term, location, limit, offset and sort_by as parameters.

[CydeSwype]

Sorting by rating also appears to max out at 200. Also, the returned "total" value appears incorrect when doing sort_by=rating. It always returns a max value of "40" even when there are actually 200 results. When not using sort_by parameter, the total value is correct.

[nikpmr]

I've been using the fusion api just fine until recently. Now, everything returns a total of 200. I can't get any request to return more than 200 results.