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# Tutorial of how to scrape Yelp Full Menu, fast and simple
- URL: https://serpapi.com/blog/tutorial-of-how-to-scrape-yelp-full-menu-fast-and-simple/
- Published: 2025-12-09T15:48:19.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-10T14:20:29.000Z
- Description: Many restaurants on Yelp publish their full menus on the platform. These menus have a lot of information about the items sold in the restaurant, and information about the different menus available in the restaurant. Read this tutorial to learn how to easily scrape this useful information.
- Author: Michael Moura
- Tags: yelp

### Introduction

Yelp is a great platform for people who want to know about local businesses and restaurants. With over 7 million businesses listed, Yelp has a wealth of precious information for market researchers and specialized AI agents and chat bots.  
Beyond information about businesses and restaurants, some restaurants list their full menus to Yelp, making this platform even more significant for data collectors and analysts.

### How to know which restaurants have Full Menus

In Yelp, for the restaurants that have set up their Full Menu page, there is a big button called "Full Menu" on their Yelp Place page:

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2025/12/Yelp-Place-Full-Menu.webp)](https://serpapi.com/yelp-place-full-menu)

When a restaurant on Yelp has a Full Menu page, there will be a button called "Full Menu" on their Yelp page.

When scraping Yelp Places using SerpApi, we can know when a place has a Full Menu page when we can find the field `response[:place_results][:full_menu]` in the response:

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2025/12/Restaurant-has-Full-Menu-page.webp)](https://serpapi.com/yelp-place-full-menu)

We can know if a restaurant we're scraping using SerpApi's Yelp Place Scraper API has a Full Menu page when it has `response.place_results.full_menu` in the response.

### How to scrape Yelp Place Full Menus

Now that we know if a restaurant has a Full Menu page, we can easily scrape it using SerpApi's [Yelp Place Scraper API](https://serpapi.com/yelp-place) by setting the request parameter `full_menu` to `true` to get `full_menu_results`.

### What is available on Yelp Full Menus

There are lots of useful information available in `full_menu_results`, such as menu `name`, `title`, `popular_items` with `link`, `review`, `expand_review_link`, `thumbnail` and more. Also, menu `sections` with `title`, `items` with `description`, `prices`, `thumbnail`, number of `photos`, number of `reviews`, `reviews_link` and much more!  
Some restaurants even have more than one `menu` available. If a restaurant has multiple menus, we can find all available menus in `response[:full_menu_results][:menus]`:

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2025/12/menu_name.webp)](https://serpapi.com/yelp-place-full-menu)

Some restaurants have multiple menus to choose from. If no menu is selected using the request parameter `menu_name` then the menu the restaurant set as default will be the one scraped.

When a restaurant has multiple menus, we can scrape each menu by providing its name to the request parameter `menu_name`. For example, here's how the request would look like if we wanted to scrape the lunch menu (`menu_name: chalong-9th-ave-lunch-08-28-24`) for the restaurant Chalong (`place_id: chalong-new-york`):

```ruby
require "serpapi" 

client = SerpApi::Client.new(
  engine: "yelp_place",
  place_id: "chalong-new-york",
  full_menu: "true",
  menu_name: "chalong-9th-ave-lunch-08-28-24",
  api_key: "YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY"
)

results = client.search
full_menu_results = results[:full_menu_results]
```

However, if a restaurant has many menus, but no `menu_name` is provided in the request, then the menu that will be scraped will be the one the restaurant set as their default menu.  
Let's walk through how we can use SerpApi to scrape Yelp Place Full Menus with only a few simple steps:

### Setting Up a SerpApi Account

First, we need to create a SerpApi account. [SerpApi has a Free tier](https://serpapi.com/pricing) that offers up to 250 searches per month.  
Let's head to the [sign-up page](https://serpapi.com/users/sign%5Fup?plan=free) to create an account. Provide a valid email and a valid phone number in order to access your account's [dashboard](https://serpapi.com/dashboard).

[![Signing up for a SerpApi account is very straightforward.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2025/02/serpapi_signup.jpg)](https://serpapi.com/users/sign%5Fup?plan=free)

SerpApi Signup/Signin page where you can create an account by providing an unique email address and an unique phone number.

### Exploring Yelp Full Menu

Now that we have an account, we can [sign in](https://serpapi.com/users/sign%5Fin) and use SerpApi's [Playground technology](https://serpapi.com/playground?engine=yelp%5Fplace&place%5Fid=chalong-new-york&full%5Fmenu=true&no%5Fcache=true) to explore all the information we can get from Yelp Place Full Menu.  
In this example, I'm scraping one menu from the restaurant Chalong using `place_id: chalong-new-york`. This restaurant has two menus, the `dinner` menu and the `chalong-9th-ave-lunch-08-28-24` menu. Because I didn't specify any menu in `menu_name`, the results will be from their default menu, which is the `dinner` menu. Let's see all the information we can scrape in `full_menu_results`:

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2025/12/Yelp-Place-Full-Menu-example.webp)](https://serpapi.com/playground?engine=yelp%5Fplace&place%5Fid=chalong-new-york&full%5Fmenu=true&no%5Fcache=true)

SerpApi can scrape all information from Yelp Place menus, including menu names, titles, popular items, reviews, photos, thumbnails, items divided per sections, item prices, descriptions, links, and a lot more!

### Integrating SerpApi with your application

Exploring SerpApi's vast diversity of Search APIs using Playground is a lot of fun, but to get the most out of SerpApi's services it's best to use the results from Search Engines directly in your application programmatically.

In order to send requests to SerpApi, we will need your unique secret `API key` that can be copied right from your [dashboard](https://serpapi.com/dashboard):

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2024/12/serpapi_api_key-2.jpg)](https://serpapi.com/dashboard)

Use your unique secret API key in your application to send requests to SerpApi programmatically.

Your `API key` is unique to you and you should never share it anywhere to avoid other people using your account, but in case you accidentally expose your `API key`, you can easily generate a new one from the [Manage API key page](https://serpapi.com/manage-api-key) (if you generate a new `API key`, don't forget to update your application code with the newly generated `API key`).

Check out the documentation for SerpApi libraries based on the programming language you use:

- [Ruby](https://github.com/serpapi/google-search-results-ruby)
- [Python](https://github.com/serpapi/google-search-results-python)
- [JavaScript](https://github.com/serpapi/serpapi-javascript)
- [PHP](https://github.com/serpapi/google-search-results-php)
- [Go](https://github.com/serpapi/google-search-results-golang)
- [Java](https://github.com/serpapi/google-search-results-java)
- [Dotnet](https://github.com/serpapi/google-search-results-dotnet)

To demonstrate how simple it is to use SerpApi in your code, here's all you'd need to do to retrieve Yelp Place Full Menu results from your application using the Ruby language, as you can also see in SerpApi's [Yelp Place Full Menu documentation page](https://serpapi.com/yelp-place-full-menu):

```Ruby
require "serpapi" 

client = SerpApi::Client.new(
  engine: "yelp_place",
  place_id: "juniors-restaurant-new-york-9",
  full_menu: "true",
  api_key: "YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY"
)

results = client.search
full_menu_results = results[:full_menu_results]
```

That's all there is to it. Integrating SerpApi is extremely simple and straightforward. You can explore how to use all other Search Engine APIs offered by SerpApi at our [documentation page](https://serpapi.com/search-api), and play around with each of them using SerpApi's [Playground feature](https://serpapi.com/playground).

Have fun! 😃

### Want to scrape Yelp Places and Yelp Search? SerpApi got you covered!

We also have a great tutorial going over how to easily scrape Yelp Search and Yelp Places. Check it out:

[How to scrape Yelp data using Python (Places and Reviews)Learn how to web scraping Yelp places and reviews using Python easily with SerpApi.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/icon/serpapi-favicon-191.png)SerpApiHilman Ramadhan![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/thumbnail/scrape-yelp-data-places-and-reviews-cover.webp)](https://serpapi.com/blog/how-to-scrape-yelp-data-places-and-reviews/)