Yelp blocked me from using their API about yelp-api

[Joyliu290]

Feel free to look at my repository "Food Decision App" and tell me if I need to fix anything in relation to this issue. Otherwise I believe this issue has nothing to do with my code, but with Yelp itself blocking me for no apparent reason.

[tomelm]

Hey @Joyliu290, sorry you got blocked but sometimes it's an automatic action that our site takes and can be caused by a lot of things (like someone sharing an IP address and doing something malicious). Unfortunately I can't handle unblocking you but if you email [email protected] with your IP address they should be able to assist more.

[Joyliu290]

Hey @tomelm thanks for the reply, but no one in my house uses Yelp except for me, and I've never done anything malicious other than using the Yelp's api. How likely would someone be able to reply to my email if I email [email protected]? I googled this a bit and people have said that Yelp rarely responds to email and phone calls...hence I'm posting this issue here on Github.

I imagined that since this the official Yelp "group" on Github, I thought there would be developers who can help me with this issue...

[tomelm]

It doesn't have to be someone in your house, IPs get recycled so it could be you got a new IP recently that was previously blocked. That's to say that that's what going on though, but that's possible.

[email protected] will respond to you for this issue, the alias is pretty responsive to issues like these. This repo is more focused on providing technical assistance on the API itself, IP blocks having on a more global level that's a little outside of our scope.

[Joyliu290]

Ok I see. Thank you!

[tomelm]

I saw they responded to you :D

If they stop responding let me know and I'll poke them.

[Joyliu290]

Hey! Good news I'm now unblocked from Yelp! I was reading the display requirements more carefully and realized that I need to put the Yelp Logo on all content originated from Yelp...Is there a way for me to get access to the design of the Logo so I can put it on my app (making one myself is probably not the best option) ? Thanks!

[tomelm]

Awesome! That's all available on yelp.com/brand