Yelp and other networks

Yelp is a crowdsourced local business review and social networking site. Over 31 million people access Yelp's website each month. Getting the data from Yelp is quite similar to how we get it from the other social networks. The steps are as follows:

1. First, log in as a developer.

2. Then, register and get the authentication credentials.

3. Get the standard API request URL.

4. Pass the URL along with the authentication credentials to either the function fromJSON or GET.

5. Data will be retrieved in the JSON format.

6. Read the required data and convert it to data frame for further analysis.

To know about the various API services offered by Yelp, visit https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/overview.

Websites such as Glassdoor and Indeed provide API access on request. The process involved in working with those APIs would be similar to those we have covered so far.

Limitations

The only limitation in performing social media mining is that the APIs consistently undergo changes with respect...