How do I find a place ID?

Call the Google Maps or Places API: every result includes place_id and cid. Pass either one to /v1/reviews.

How much does the Google Reviews API cost?

1 credit per 10 reviews. A 50-review page (num=50) costs 5 credits. Places with no reviews aren't billed.

Can I get all reviews for a place?

Up to the first 100 per sort order (newest, most relevant, highest or lowest rating). Keep calling with page_token set to the next_page_token from each response until it's absent.

Can I reply to reviews through the API?

No. SerpKite reads public data only. Replying requires the owner's Google Business Profile account.

Does it include the owner's response?

Yes, when the business replied, the response object carries the reply text and date.

POST /v1/reviews

Google Reviews API

Fetch Google reviews for any business by place ID or CID: rating, date, text, reviewer and the owner's reply. Sort by newest to monitor new reviews, and page through the first 100 with next_page_token.

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1 credit per 10 reviews 2,500 free credits, no card Failed calls are free

Overview

What the Google Reviews API does

The Google Reviews API returns public reviews for one place. Identify the place with place_id, cid or fid (all three come back from the Maps and Places APIs), choose a sort order, and page with page_token (the next_page_token from the previous response).

Pricing follows the data: 1 credit per 10 reviews. Ask for up to 50 per call with num; a 50-review page is 5 credits.

What you get

reviews[] array: rating, date, iso_date, snippet (review text), likes, user {name, thumbnail, reviews}, response {snippet, date}.
next_page_token string: Pass back as page_token to get the next page.
request object: Echo of the normalized request (endpoint, engine, q, country, language, page…), handy for logging.
meta object: request_id, credits_used, cached, engine, latency_ms, resolved_urls and parse_quality. parse_quality=empty means the call was not billed.

Request

POST /v1/reviews

cURL

Python

TypeScript

fetch

PHP

curl https://api.serpkite.com/v1/reviews \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SERPKITE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"place_id":"ChIJLU7jZClu5kcR4PcOOO6p3I0","sort":"newest"}'

Response (illustrative, placeholder domains)

200 OK · application/json

{
  "request": {
    "endpoint": "reviews",
    "engine": "google",
    "place_id": "ChIJLU7jZClu5kcR4PcOOO6p3I0",
    "sort": "newest",
    "language": "en"
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "rating": 5,
      "date": "3 days ago",
      "iso_date": "2026-09-26T09:14:00Z",
      "snippet": "Best flat white in the neighborhood. Staff explained the single-origin options without being pushy.",
      "likes": 2,
      "user": {
        "name": "Alex P.",
        "reviews": 37
      },
      "response": {
        "snippet": "Thanks Alex, see you soon!",
        "date": "2 days ago"
      }
    },
    {
      "rating": 3,
      "date": "1 week ago",
      "iso_date": "2026-09-21T15:02:00Z",
      "snippet": "Great beans, but the queue on Saturday morning was 20 minutes.",
      "user": {
        "name": "Sam K.",
        "reviews": 4
      }
    }
  ],
  "next_page_token": "CAESBkVnSUlDZw",
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_01J8ZK4M6Q2V7",
    "credits_used": 1,
    "engine": "google",
    "cached": false,
    "latency_ms": 812,
    "resolved_urls": true,
    "parse_quality": "ok"
  }
}

Every response also carries X-Credits-Used, X-Credits-Remaining, X-Cache and X-Tokens-Estimate headers. Run this query in the playground

Reference

Parameters

The parameters /v1/reviews accepts, in the JSON body or the query string.

Google Reviews API parameters
Name	Type	Default	Description
`place_id` required	string	–	Google place ID. Or pass cid or fid instead (one of the three is required).
`cid`	string	–	Google customer ID (CID) of the place.
`fid`	string	–	Google feature ID of the place.
`sort`	string	most_relevant	most_relevant, newest, highest_rating or lowest_rating.
`num`	integer	10	Reviews per call, up to 50. Billed 1 credit per 10.
`page_token`	string	–	next_page_token from the previous response, for the next page.
`language`	string	en	Interface language, as a language code (en, de, fr, pt-BR…).
`format`	string	json	Response format. markdown is LLM-ready prose; compact is JSON with only the fields agents need. Values: json, compact, markdown.
`fields`	string	–	Comma-separated projection, e.g. results.title,results.link,knowledge_graph. Cuts tokens.
`max_age`	integer	–	Accept a cached result up to this many seconds old. Cache hits cost 50% of the credits.

Full reference, error codes and headers are in the API docs. Send a JSON array of up to 100 request objects to run them in one call.

Use cases

What people build with the Google Reviews API

Review monitoring

Poll sort=newest daily and alert on 1–2 star reviews.

Sentiment analysis

Feed review text to an LLM to extract themes and complaints.

Competitor benchmarking

Compare ratings and recurring topics across competing locations.

Reputation dashboards

Aggregate reviews for all your locations in one place.

Pricing