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A Google reviews API for any place, not only your own.

The stars say 4.5. The review topics say queues and cups.

Google's own review APIs return at most 5 reviews for a place, or all reviews only for a business you manage. A Maps reviews tool reads any public listing, 5 to 10 reviews per call. On 20 October 2026 nine calls read 23 reviews and 10 review topics for a London coffee shop for $0.0012.

FOR Developers, agencies and analysts who need review data for places they do not own

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THIS RUN · 20 OCT 2026 $0.0012 4 PAID CALLS · 5 NOT CHARGED
01 / GOOGLE'S OWN APIS

Does Google have an API for reviews?

Google has two, and neither reads every review of any business. The Places API returns a place's details with a maximum of 5 reviews, per Google's documentation. The Business Profile API lists all reviews, but only for verified locations your Google account manages.

So a developer who needs reviews for a competitor, a prospect or a market has to read the public Maps listing. That is what the review tools in this run do. Your agent calls them by place id or cid and gets reviews back as structured data with rating, date, text and the owner's reply.

Where Google review data comes from
SourceWhich placesReviews per requestPrice
Google Places APIAny placeUp to 5Check current pricing
Google Business Profile APIVerified locations you manageAll, pagedCheck current terms
crawl4ai.google.maps.reviewsAny public listingUp to 8, sorted newest or relevant$0.0003 per call
litescrape.google.maps.reviewsAny public listing8 to 10, with a next-page token$0.0003 per call
02 / THE PROMPT PASTE IT INTO YOUR AGENT.

One prompt.
Your agent runs it.

Your agent picks the tools, makes the calls and reads the results. You see each charge as it settles.

PASTE THIS INTO YOUR AGENT
FIRST TIME? GIVE THIS TO YOUR AGENT FIRST
Works in and any agent that can run a terminal command.
03 / THE RUN RECORDED 20 OCT 2026.

Every call.
Every charge.

What your agent asked each tool, what came back and what it cost. Calls that failed or found nothing were not charged.

YOU · ONE PROMPT

Find Monmouth Coffee Company at Borough Market, London on Google Maps. Pull its newest reviews and its most relevant reviews, then page through more reviews with a second tool, and tell me what customers praise and complain about.

YOUR AGENT
tapinall ONE BALANCE
  1. 01 Find the place

    Found Monmouth Coffee Company. 4.5 stars from 3,038 reviews.

    $0.0003
  2. 02 Newest reviews

    Came back empty, so nothing was billed.

    $0, nothing billed
  3. 03 Most relevant reviews

    Came back empty again, so nothing was billed.

    $0, nothing billed
  4. 04 Newest reviews, asked another way

    Asked a different way and got the 5 newest reviews, one a 1-star complaint.

    $0.0003
  5. 05 Most relevant, asked another way

    Empty again, so nothing was billed.

    $0, nothing billed
  6. 06 Reviews, page 1

    A second tool read 8 reviews. Friendly staff and the queue come up most.

    $0.0003
  7. 07 Most relevant, retry

    A retry came back empty too, so nothing was billed.

    $0, nothing billed
  8. 08 Reviews, page 2

    This tool did not answer, so the agent tried again.

    Failed · not charged
  9. 09 Reviews, page 2, retry

    The retry read 10 more reviews, all 4 or 5 stars.

    $0.0003
TOTAL $0.0012 about $0.00005 per review read
different reviews from 3 review calls that answered
23
reviews per call, against 3,038 on the listing
5 to 10
for 4 paid calls, with the 5 empty or failed calls at $0
$0.0012
See the exact calls and responses FOR DEVELOPERS
agent-session / google-reviews-api 9 CALLS
  1. 01 / FIND THE PLACE
    tapinall call crawl4ai.google.serp.maps --data '{"query":"Monmouth Coffee Company Borough Market","location":"London","limit":5}'

    5 places · #1 Monmouth Coffee Company, 2 Park St, Borough Market · Coffee shop

    4.5 rating · 3,038 reviews · website monmouthcoffee.co.uk

    place_id ChIJ94DTm1cDdkgRibmgxzXy2EQ · cid 4960981302344989065

    ok — Charged: $0.0003

  2. 02 / NEWEST REVIEWS
    tapinall call crawl4ai.google.maps.reviews --data '{"place":"ChIJ94DTm1cDdkgRibmgxzXy2EQ","sort":"newest","limit":8}'

    0 reviews · warning: Google Maps gave no answer for the place

    ok — Charged: $0.0000

  3. 03 / MOST RELEVANT REVIEWS
    tapinall call crawl4ai.google.maps.reviews --data '{"place":"ChIJ94DTm1cDdkgRibmgxzXy2EQ","sort":"relevant","limit":8}'

    0 reviews · the same warning

    ok — Charged: $0.0000

  4. 04 / NEWEST REVIEWS, ASKED ANOTHER WAY
    tapinall call crawl4ai.google.maps.reviews --data '{"place":"4960981302344989065","sort":"newest","limit":8}'

    5 reviews for a limit of 8, dated 2026-10-15 to 2026-10-17

    2026-10-17 · 5 stars · "Excellent coffee."

    2026-10-16 · 1 star · a complaint about paying "5 quid for a cup to keep"

    1 with a star rating and no text · 1 in Korean · reviewer names redacted

    ok — Charged: $0.0003

  5. 05 / MOST RELEVANT, ASKED ANOTHER WAY
    tapinall call crawl4ai.google.maps.reviews --data '{"place":"4960981302344989065","sort":"relevant","limit":8}'

    0 reviews · the same warning

    ok — Charged: $0.0000

  6. 06 / REVIEWS, PAGE 1
    tapinall call litescrape.google.maps.reviews --data '{"place_id":"ChIJ94DTm1cDdkgRibmgxzXy2EQ"}'

    8 reviews, 7 five-star and 1 four-star, plus a next_page_token

    10 review topics with mention counts · friendly staff 240 · queue 238 · flat white 143 · reusable cups 48

    "It gets very busy, but the queue moves surprisingly fast"

    ok — Charged: $0.0003

  7. 07 / MOST RELEVANT, RETRY
    tapinall call crawl4ai.google.maps.reviews --data '{"place":"4960981302344989065","sort":"relevant","limit":8}'

    0 reviews · the same warning

    ok — Charged: $0.0000

  8. 08 / REVIEWS, PAGE 2
    tapinall call litescrape.google.maps.reviews --data '{"place_id":"ChIJ94DTm1cDdkgRibmgxzXy2EQ","next_page_token":"ls1.WyJDakVJQVJJcENnb0FQN19…"}'

    failed — HTTP 503 · not charged

  9. 09 / REVIEWS, PAGE 2, RETRY
    tapinall call litescrape.google.maps.reviews --data '{"place_id":"ChIJ94DTm1cDdkgRibmgxzXy2EQ","next_page_token":"ls1.WyJDakVJQVJJcENnb0FQN19…"}'

    10 more reviews · 6 five-star, 4 four-star · dated 2025-10-03 to 2026-06-14

    "The place was absolutely heaving but as we weren't in a hurry we stuck with it"

    Another next_page_token for page 3

    ok — Charged: $0.0003

TOTAL $0.0012 about $0.00005 per review read
ONE TOKEN · ONE BALANCE 4 PAID · 5 AT $0
04 / WHAT IT FOUND FROM THE RESPONSES ABOVE.

What came back.
In plain numbers.

Read straight from the responses in the run. Nothing here is a mockup.

different reviews from 3 review calls that answered
23
reviews per call, against 3,038 on the listing
5 to 10
for 4 paid calls, with the 5 empty or failed calls at $0
$0.0012
What customers mention most, from the listing's review topics
TopicMentions
friendly staff240
queue238
flat white143
filter coffee71
reusable cups48
limited seating22
canelé20
takeaway coffee18
05 / PER CALL

How many reviews you get per call

Plan on fewer than 10 reviews per call. The crawl4ai tool takes a limit of up to 8. For this listing it returned nothing when called with the place id. Called with the cid, the number in a maps?cid= link, it returned the 5 newest reviews. Sorted by relevance it returned nothing three times, and none of the empty calls cost anything. The litescrape tool returned 8 reviews on its first page and 10 on its second, each with a token for the next page.

That makes these tools right for sampling, monitoring and spot checks, and wrong for exporting every review of a listing. The coffee shop has 3,038 reviews. Reading them all would take hundreds of paged calls, and we did not test how deep the pages go.

06 / READING THEM

What the reviews say

The topic counts came from the first page call at no extra cost. Customers mention friendly staff 240 times and the queue 238 times. Reusable cups come up 48 times. Reviewers explain why. Takeaway comes only in a reusable cup with a £5 deposit, and the one 1-star review in this run is about that cup. The rule barely moves the stars. Of the 23 reviews read, 16 were 5 stars, 6 were 4 stars and 1 was 1 star.

Sort order matters. Newest returned what people wrote this week, short and mixed, including the 1-star review. The paged reviews ran longer and mostly praised the coffee while warning about crowds. For monitoring, read newest. For a summary of reputation, read the paged or relevant reviews.

07 / COST

Is the Google reviews API free?

Google bills the Places API per request under its Maps Platform pricing, and its review field stops at 5. The Business Profile API only covers locations you manage. The review tools here cost $0.0003 per call. This run read 23 reviews for $0.0012, about $0.00005 per review. The four calls that returned nothing and the one that failed cost nothing.

08 / LIMITS

Limits and privacy

Reviews are written by people. This page redacts reviewer names and shows only short quotes. Do the same when you publish review data, and use it to understand a business, not to profile the people who wrote the reviews.

Results reflect the public listing at the time of the call. Google can hide or remove reviews, and sort orders are not strict. One identifier can fail where another works, so keep both the place id and the cid from the Maps search.

09 / VARIATIONS SAME TOOLS. ANOTHER JOB.

Change the market.
Keep the recipe.

Prompts that use the same tools. We have not run these, so check each price in the catalog.

One Maps search, then one reviews call per place at $0.0003.

One reviews call per bakery returns its topic counts.

Reviews come back in the language they were written in. Your agent translates.

One Maps search, then one reviews call per shop.

One reviews call a week. Post the replies yourself from your Business Profile.

10 / GOOD QUESTIONS

Good questions,
short answers.

Does Google have an API for reviews?

Yes, two. The Places API returns up to 5 reviews for any place. The Business Profile API returns all reviews, but only for verified locations you manage. For more reviews of a place you do not manage, use a Maps reviews tool.

Is the Google review API free?

The Places API is billed per request under Google Maps Platform pricing. The Business Profile API only covers businesses you manage. The review tools on this page cost $0.0003 per call, and calls that return nothing cost $0.

How do I see all Google reviews for a business?

On Google Maps, open the listing and scroll the Reviews tab. Through an API, page through the reviews with a next-page token, about 10 per call. For a large listing that takes many calls, so sample by newest or by relevance instead.

Can I export all Google reviews for a listing?

Not efficiently with these tools. They return 5 to 10 reviews per call. If you manage the business, the Business Profile API lists all of your own reviews.

Why did some review calls return nothing?

Google Maps sometimes gives no answer for a place in one form. Here the place id returned nothing and the cid worked for newest reviews, while the relevance sort stayed empty. The agent switched to a second review tool. Empty calls were not charged.

Why are reviewer names hidden on this page?

The tools return them, but reviewers are private people. We redact names on published pages and quote only short pieces of text.

11 / HOW YOU PAY PREPAID. NO SUBSCRIPTION.

A prepaid balance, spent per call.

Top up by card and your agent spends the balance one call at a time. This run cost $0.0012. Credits never expire, failed calls cost nothing, and every tool in the metered tool catalog shows its price before your agent calls. See per-call pricing.

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