Yelp Search API issues

Question

This is yelp search API.

Used this api for getting spanish restaurants. And it gives me nearly 150 restaurants, but most of them are not Spanish Restaurant Category.

id": "zubuchon-cebu-city",
"name": "Zubuchon",
"image_url": "https://s3-media3.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/7F3B5-2LfivkII9d5i8iaA/o.jpg",
"is_closed": false,
"url": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/zubuchon-cebu-city?adjust_creative=jO7FkmyPhUkuDm8uD3-6gA&utm_campaign=yelp_api_v3&utm_medium=api_v3_business_search&utm_source=jO7FkmyPhUkuDm8uD3-6gA",
"review_count": 13,
"categories":[
{"alias": "filipino", "title": "Filipino"},
{"alias": "seafood", "title": "Seafood"},
{"alias": "soup", "title": "Soup"}
],
"rating": 4,
"coordinates":{"latitude": 10.317542, "longitude": 123.894127},
"transactions":[],
"price": "₱₱",
"location":{"address1": "N Escario Street", "address2": "Escario Central", "address3": "", "city": "Cebu City",…},
"phone": "+63322540247",
"display_phone": "+63 32 254 0247",
"distance": 972.4964813519999

...

How can i filter only Spanish Restaurants?

Answer 1

You should be able to add it into the url parameter. I am using python and I just add

url_param = { 
              'term': 'Spanish',
              < other params here >
            }

to my request