How to scrape more than 5 Google Maps reviews
2 min readJan 6, 2021
Scrape reviews with Google Places API?
The official way of extracting reviews from Google is limited to 5 reviews and for the most cases it’s not enough. Moreover, there is no option to select the sorting of the reviews.
“predictions” contains an array of places, with information about the
place. The Places API returns up to 5 results.
Google Maps Reviews API by Outscraper
Fortunately, there are many 3-rd party tools that developers, marketers, and data-scientists use in order to overcome Google limitations and extract all the reviews.
Getting started with curl:
Request:
curl -X GET "https://api.app.outscraper.com/maps/reviews?query=restaurants%20brooklyn%20usa&organizationsPerQueryLimit=1&reviewsPerOrganizationLimit=100&sort=newest&language=en®ion=US&async=true" -H "accept: application/json" -H "X-API-KEY: API_KEY_VALUE"X-API-KEY—API key from the Outscraper’s Profile page.
Response:
{
"status": "Pending",
"id": "b1aa2197-abf0-49ee-aa6c-b2b9feefed1e"
}After at least 20 seconds we can check the status by task_id (b1aa2197-abf0-49ee-aa6c-b2b9feefed1e):
curl -X GET "https://api.app.outscraper.com/requests/f47f8903-3820-490b-9ab2-307b91a215f3"Response:
{
"id": "f47f8903-3820-490b-9ab2-307b91a215f3",
"status": "Success",
"data": {
"name": "The Loft Steakhouse",
"full_address": "1306 40th St, Brooklyn, NY 11218",
"borough": "Borough Park",
"street": "1306 40th St",
"city": "Brooklyn",
"postal_code": "11218",
"country_code": "US",
"country": "United States of America",
"us_state": "New York",
"state": "New York",
"plus_code": null,
...
"reviews_data": [
{
"google_id": "0x89c25ad4507a6e2f:0x135c0e38302054ac",
"autor_link": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/113939255077909007001?hl=en-US",
"autor_name": "Luxicore Luxicore",
"autor_id": "113939255077909007001",
"review_text": "😍",
"review_img_url": null,
"owner_answer": null,
"owner_answer_timestamp": null,
"owner_answer_timestamp_datetime_utc": null,
"review_link": "https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m5!14m4!1m3!1m2!1s113939255077909007001!2s0x0:0x135c0e38302054ac?hl=en-US",
"review_rating": 5,
"review_timestamp": 1609916526,
"review_datetime_utc": "01/06/2021 07:02:06",
"review_likes": 0
},
{
"google_id": "0x89c25ad4507a6e2f:0x135c0e38302054ac",
"autor_link": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/113772108571144341631?hl=en-US",
"autor_name": "nechama spitzer",
"autor_id": "113772108571144341631",
"review_text": null,
"review_img_url": null,
"owner_answer": null,
"owner_answer_timestamp": null,
"owner_answer_timestamp_datetime_utc": null,
"review_link": "https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m5!14m4!1m3!1m2!1s113772108571144341631!2s0x0:0x135c0e38302054ac?hl=en-US",
"review_rating": 5,
"review_timestamp": 1609908330,
"review_datetime_utc": "01/06/2021 04:45:30",
"review_likes": 0
},
{
"google_id": "0x89c25ad4507a6e2f:0x135c0e38302054ac",
"autor_link": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/101327396341308920600?hl=en-US",
"autor_name": "Abraham Spitzer",
"autor_id": "101327396341308920600",
"review_text": "Fantastic food, and top notch service.",
"review_img_url": null,
"owner_answer": null,
"owner_answer_timestamp": null,
"owner_answer_timestamp_datetime_utc": null,
"review_link": "https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m5!14m4!1m3!1m2!1s101327396341308920600!2s0x0:0x135c0e38302054ac?hl=en-US",
"review_rating": 5,
"review_timestamp": 1609907283,
"review_datetime_utc": "01/06/2021 04:28:03",
"review_likes": 1
},
{
"google_id": "0x89c25ad4507a6e2f:0x135c0e38302054ac",
"autor_link": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/102719245594734487309?hl=en-US",
"autor_name": "Mordechai Steinberg",
"autor_id": "102719245594734487309",
"review_text": "Drinks and desserts are delicious",
"review_img_url": null,
"owner_answer": null,
"owner_answer_timestamp": null,
"owner_answer_timestamp_datetime_utc": null,
"review_link": "https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m5!14m4!1m3!1m2!1s102719245594734487309!2s0x0:0x135c0e38302054ac?hl=en-US",
"review_rating": 5,
"review_timestamp": 1609876671,
"review_datetime_utc": "01/05/2021 19:57:51",
"review_likes": 0
},
{
"google_id": "0x89c25ad4507a6e2f:0x135c0e38302054ac",
"autor_link": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/111508286578454282185?hl=en-US",
"autor_name": "akiva Burgman",
"autor_id": "111508286578454282185",
"review_text": "(Translated by Google) Crazy food\n\n(Original)\nאוכל מטורף",
"review_img_url": null,
"owner_answer": null,
"owner_answer_timestamp": null,
"owner_answer_timestamp_datetime_utc": null,
"review_link": "https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m5!14m4!1m3!1m2!1s111508286578454282185!2s0x0:0x135c0e38302054ac?hl=en-US",
"review_rating": 5,
"review_timestamp": 1609807487,
"review_datetime_utc": "01/05/2021 00:44:47",
"review_likes": 1
},
{
"google_id": "0x89c25ad4507a6e2f:0x135c0e38302054ac",
"autor_link": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/109701367046355539534?hl=en-US",
"autor_name": "L M",
"autor_id": "109701367046355539534",
"review_text": "Very Good food",
"review_img_url": null,
"owner_answer": null,
"owner_answer_timestamp": null,
"owner_answer_timestamp_datetime_utc": null,
"review_link": "https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m5!14m4!1m3!1m2!1s109701367046355539534!2s0x0:0x135c0e38302054ac?hl=en-US",
"review_rating": 5,
"review_timestamp": 1609740432,
"review_datetime_utc": "01/04/2021 06:07:12",
"review_likes": 1
},
...
]
}
}API docs: https://app.outscraper.com/api-docs
Python package: https://pypi.org/project/google-services-api/
