Savvy developers like you already know that the Yelp API is the best place to get information on local businesses. Today, as a part of our on-going integration with our friends at both Yelp SeatMe and Yelp Eat24, we are excited to announce an additional feature of the API: “Action Links.”

Action Links will allow your users to directly make a reservation or even start a food order for delivery or pickup from wherever you’re displaying Yelp data.

To see this in action (pardon the pun), next time you use the Search endpoint or the Business endpoint, simply pass in the optional “actionlinks=true” parameter. When requested, action links will be returned in fields called reservation_url and eat24_url with the response for businesses that support them. Checkout the handy API documentation for more details.

You can use these links within your application to launch the Yelp Eat24 ordering experience or into the Yelp SeatMe reservation experience.

Ordering Food on Yelp Eat24

Making A Yelp SeatMe Reservation

Go ahead, give it a whirl and let us know what you think. We love hearing from fellow developers, so share your cool creations with us on Twitter via @YelpEngineering or write us at api@yelp.com and stay tuned for even more API goodies coming your way.

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