How fast is the Yelp API?
Parseium's Yelp scraper API delivers responses in milliseconds to seconds, depending on your configuration.
Response times
Parse endpoint (you provide HTML)
- Typical: 100-500ms
- Use case: When you already have the HTML and just need extraction
Scrape endpoint (we fetch for you)
- Business listings: 2-4 seconds
- Review pages: 3-5 seconds
- Search results: 2-4 seconds
- With wait conditions: 4-10 seconds (configurable)
Yelp pages use moderate JavaScript and lazy loading, so expect 2-5 second response times for most scrape requests.
Performance features
Always-warm browsers
Unlike cold-start services, our browsers are pre-warmed and ready to go:
- No 10-30 second browser startup delays
- Consistent, predictable response times
- Sub-second parsing once HTML is loaded
Managed proxies included
- Automatic proxy rotation to avoid rate limits
- High-quality residential proxies available
- No need to maintain your own proxy infrastructure
- Geographic targeting for location-specific content
Optimization tips
To get the fastest possible responses:
- Use parse endpoint: If you can fetch HTML yourself, parsing is near-instant
- Minimize wait times: Only wait as long as necessary for content to load
- Use
domcontentloaded: Faster thannetworkidlefor most Yelp pages - Cache when possible: Business data doesn't change frequently—cache for hours or days
- Batch requests: Extract multiple businesses from search results pages
- Paginate wisely: Reviews are paginated—extract what you need per page
Rate limiting considerations
Yelp monitors scraping activity:
- Reasonable pacing: Space requests appropriately (seconds to minutes)
- Proxy rotation: Use different IPs to distribute load
- Pattern variation: Avoid scraping in predictable patterns
- Error handling: Back off if you encounter rate limiting
Timeout limits
- Scrape endpoint: 120 second timeout
- Parse endpoint: 60 second timeout
Most Yelp requests complete well within these limits.