How to Export Google Reviews?
You might find it useful to automate exporting Google Reviews in certain cases. Marketers use the reviews to find new prospects for businesses. Data scientists use reviews as a source of data for AI and machine-learning models. They extract reviews from Google and feed them into AI and machine-learning models. Developers use it as a source of data for their algorithms.
In this tutorial, you will learn about the ultimate way of extracting all the Google Maps reviews by using Google Reviews Scraper. In case you are interested in Google Play Reviews you can use Google Play reviews scraper and the process looks almost the same. Additionally, there is an API for developers.
Let’s Get Started
1. Sign Up to Outscraper
Create an account at Outscraper. With its help, you will be able to scraper Google Maps reviews into a CSV/excel file or you can use an API and do it from your code. There is a monthly free tier that you can use. The free tier is monthly renewable so it will be enough for small projects.
2. Insert links, IDs, or enter categories with locations
After you’ve created an account open the Google Reviews scraper and insert the link to your place, place ID, or enter the organization name, location, or categories.
3. Select sorting and set up limits
You can specify the limit of reviews per one organization. Another way to limit the extraction is to set up a cutoff rating or cutoff date (depends on the sorting you are using).
4. Check the advanced parameters
You can ignore reviews without text, select the specific language, add tags to your task, etc.
5. Check the query and confirm the extraction
You will be proposed to check a few queries once you clicked the “Scrape reviews” button. Open the query and make sure that it is what you want (you should see the organization you need).
6. Wait till the task will be finished
The duration of the task depends on the number of places and reviews you want to scrape. You will receive an email once the task is finished. Moreover, you can open the tasks page to check the progress of your task.
7. Download the results file
After the extraction is finished you can download an excel file by opening a link from the email or from the tasks page. It contains information about the place and reviews.
Video Tutorial
Check out our YouTube video to see how Google Reviews Scraper works:
