Google Reviews Library

A simple Node.js library to fetch Google Maps reviews.

Installation

To install the library, run the following command:

npm install google-reviews-api

Usage

const { fetchGoogleMapsReviews } = require('google-reviews-library');

(async () => {

  const placeId = '0x47e66e2964e34e2d:0x8ddca9ee380ef7e0';
  const options = {
    hl: 'en',  // Language (e.g., 'en' for English)
    gl: 'tr',  // Region (e.g., 'tr' for Turkey)
    targetReviews: 50  // The total number of reviews you want to fetch
  };

  const result = await fetchGoogleMapsReviews(placeId, '', options);
  console.log(result.reviews);
})();

Options

Sample Place ID For example, to fetch reviews for the Eiffel Tower, the Place ID can be found in the Google Maps URL:

Google Maps - Eiffel Tower

The Place ID for the Eiffel Tower is: 0x47e66e2964e34e2d:0x8ddca9ee380ef7e0

placeId: The Google Maps Place ID for the location.

nextPageToken: For pagination. You can leave it as an empty string ('') to start from the first page.

hl: Language for the reviews (default: 'en').

gl: Region for the reviews (default: 'us').

targetReviews: The maximum number of reviews to fetch. This will stop fetching once the target number is reached (default: 50).