Is there an official Google Reviews API?

Google's Places API returns at most five reviews per place, sorted by relevance, and its terms prohibit storing them. A dedicated Google Reviews API like CrustAPI returns all of a place's reviews, sortable and paginated, with no storage restriction.

How many Google reviews can I get per place?

All of them. CrustAPI pages through a place's full review feed using Google's own token, so you get every review with no duplicates. The official Places API is capped at five.

How do I look up a place for its reviews?

By business name and city, a Google Maps URL, a Place ID, a CID, or an FID. Any of these resolves to the same place.

Google Reviews API

Every Google review for any business as clean JSON: rating, full text, exact date, reviewer, and photos. Sort, filter, and paginate. One credit per call, empty results free.

Every review, not just five Any place, not just yours ~0.3 seconds per page

PULLED LIVE FROM THE API, JULY 13, 2026

One request, real reviews

# look a place up by name, URL, Place ID, CID, or FID curl "https://crustapi.com/v1/search?type=reviews&q=Blue Bottle Coffee&sortBy=newest" -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY"

// one of the reviews returned, unedited: { "rating": 5, "date": "4 months ago", "isoDate": "2026-03-06T18:47:43.650Z", "snippet": "This coffee shop is so cute! One of the most unique spots I have been to...", "user": { "name": "Emily Gonzalez", "reviews": 32, "link": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/..." }, "link": "https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/..." }

Pass nextPageToken from the response to page through every review. Pagination is exact, so you get each review once, with no duplicates.

WHAT EVERY REVIEW INCLUDES

The full review

ScoreRating 1-5 TextFull snippet WhenExact + relative date WhoReviewer + profile HistoryReviewer's review count MediaAttached photos LinkDirect review URL SortRelevant / new / high / low

THE PART MOST TEAMS GET WRONG

The official API gives you five reviews, and you can't keep them

Google's Places API can return reviews, but two limits make it a dead end for real work: it returns at most five per place, and Google's terms bar you from storing them.

"A JSON array of up to five reviews. By default, the reviews are sorted in order of relevance."

Google Places API Place Details reference, checked July 13, 2026

"You must not pre-fetch, cache, or store Places API content beyond the allowed exceptions."

Google Places API policies, checked July 13, 2026

Five relevance-sorted reviews you're not allowed to save is not a dataset. If you're monitoring reputation, mining review text for a product, or building a reviews feature, you need all of them, sortable, and yours to keep. That's what this API returns.

SIDE BY SIDE

Official API vs the full feed

	Places API	CrustAPI Reviews
Reviews per place	Up to 5	All of them, paginated
Sort order	Relevance only	Relevant, newest, highest, lowest
Storing the data	Prohibited	Yours to keep and build on
Look a place up by	Place ID	Name, URL, Place ID, CID, or FID
Price	Per request, own-business focus	1 credit per call, empties free

Official facts from Google's Place Details reference and Places API policies, checked July 13, 2026.

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PRICING

One credit per call

Prepaid packs, credits never expire: 25k for $49, 100k for $149, up to 250M, all self-serve, ex-tax. Each call returns a page of reviews for one credit; a call that finds nothing costs nothing. Prefer no code? The same engine powers our Google Reviews Scraper on Apify.

FAIR PLAY

When the official Places API is the right tool: you need a place's basic details inside a live app, a Google-billed contract, or just the top few reviews as a preview. It's built for app features, not review datasets, and it does that job well.

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