To get more than 5 reviews from google places API

Question

I am doing an application where I extract the google reviews using google places API.When I read the document related to it in "https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/places",I found out that I could get only 5 top reviews.Is there any option to get more reviews.

Answer 1

In order to have access to more than 5 reviews with the Google API you have to purchase Premium data Access from Google. That premium plan will grant you access to all sorts of additional data points you have to shell out a pretty penny.

If you are a Business owner wanting to retrieve all of your reviews, you can do so but first you have to get verified and could do this through the MyBusiness API more info here: https://developers.google.com/my-business/

Answer 2

There is a feature request for that: Issue 7630: Response to Include More Than 5 Reviews ─ I'd recommend you "star" it to receive updates.

Answer 3

Unfortunately there's no way to get more than 5 reviews in the places API unless you are the business owner after getting verified as Tekill said. But it looks like there are some external services that can get all the reviews. My guess is that they scrape them from Google Maps directly: Some of these services are Wextractor, ReviewShake and AllReviews

Answer 4

Alternatively, you can use a third party solution like SerpApi to scrape all the reviews of any place. It's a paid API with a free trial.

Each page fatches 10 results. To implement the pagination just use the start parameter which defines the result offset (e.g., 0 (default) is the first page of results, 10 is the 2nd page of results, 20 is the 3rd page of results, etc.)

Example python code (available in other libraries also):

from serpapi import GoogleSearch

params = {
  "engine": "google_maps_reviews",
  "place_id": "0x89c259a61c75684f:0x79d31adb123348d2",
  "api_key": "SECRET_API_KEY"
}

search = GoogleSearch(params)
results = search.get_dict()
reviews = results['reviews']

Example output:

"reviews": [
  {
    "user": {
      "name": "Waylon Bilbrey",
      "link": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/107691056156160235121?hl=en-US&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUituIlpTvAhVYCc0KHbvTCrgQvvQBegQIARAx",
      "thumbnail": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14GjOj6Wjfk1kSYjhvH7WIBNMdl4nPj6FvUhvYcR6=s40-c0x00000000-cc-rp",
      "reviews": 1
    },
    "rating": 4,
    "date": "a week ago",
    "snippet": "I've been here multiple times. The coffee itself is just average to me. The service is good (the people working are nice). The aesthetic is obviously what brings the place some fame. A little overpriced (even for NY). A very small cup for $6 where I feel like the price comes from the top rainbow foam decor , when I'm going to cover it anyways. If it's for an insta pic then it may be worth it?"
  },
  {
    "user": {
      "name": "Amber Grace Sale",
      "link": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/106390058588469541899?hl=en-US&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUituIlpTvAhVYCc0KHbvTCrgQvvQBegQIARA7",
      "thumbnail": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14Gj84nHu_9V_0V4yRbZcr-8ZTYAHua6gUBP8fC7W=s40-c0x00000000-cc-rp-ba3",
      "local_guide": true,
      "reviews": 33,
      "photos": 17
    },
    "rating": 5,
    "date": "2 years ago",
    "snippet": "They really take pride in their espresso roast here and the staff is extremely knowledgeable on the subject. It’s also a GREAT place to do work although a table is no guarantee; you might have to wait for a bit. My almond milk cappuccino was very acidic at the end which wasn’t expected but I could still tell the bean was high quality. Their larger lattés they put in a tall glass cup which looks really really cool. Would definitely go again.",
    "likes": 2,
    "images": [
      "https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipMup24_dHrWtNN4ZD70EPsiRMf_tykcUkPw6A1H=w100-h100-p-n-k-no"
    ]
  },
  {
    "user": {
      "name": "Kelvin Petar",
      "link": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/100859090874785206875?hl=en-US&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUituIlpTvAhVYCc0KHbvTCrgQvvQBegQIARBG",
      "thumbnail": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14GhdIvUDamzfPqbYIpwhnGJV2XWSi77iVXfEsiKS=s40-c0x00000000-cc-rp",
      "reviews": 3
    },
    "rating": 4,
    "date": "3 months ago",
    "snippet": "Stumptown Cafe is the perfect place to work or catch up with friends. Never too loud, never too dead. Their lattes and deliciously addicting and the toasts are tasty as well. Wifi is always fast, which is a huge plus! The staff are the friendliest, I highly recommend this place!"
  },
  ...
]

You can check out the documentation for more details.

Disclaimer: I work at SerpApi.

Answer 5

Adding to the answer of @miguev, there's at the moment no way to get more than 5 top reviews without using premium APIs (according to a Google Maps guy I had a talk with) and that's pricey.

Answer 6

We tried to sign for The Google Maps Platform Premium Plan to show them on pages like this but Google said it's no longer available for sign up or new customers. Right now we're limited to 5 reviews only.