---
title: "Google reviews"
description: "Google reviews of a place on Google Maps, with the stars, the owner's reply and the reviewer."
canonical: https://docs.mentio.dev/platforms/googlemaps
markdown: https://docs.mentio.dev/platforms/googlemaps.mdx
---

# Google reviews

Google reviews of a place on Google Maps, with the stars, the owner's reply and the reviewer.

Google reviews is a [review platform](/platforms/reviews): a keyword's term is never searched here. Instead a keyword names places in its `reviewSources`, and every new Google review of those places becomes a mention of the keyword. Useful for anything with an address: a shop, a restaurant, a clinic, an office.

| `platform`                    | `googlemaps`                                          |
| ----------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| What is found                 | Every new Google review of the places a keyword names |
| Freshness                     | About once a day per place                            |
| Last 30 days on a new keyword | Yes, the newest 100 reviews, free                     |

## Connect a place

Paste the place's Google Maps link: the long one from the address bar, or the short `maps.app.goo.gl` link from Share, which Mentio opens for you. A Place ID (`ChIJ...`) works too:

```bash
curl -X PATCH https://api.mentio.dev/v1/keywords/kw_123 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MENTIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "reviewSources": [{ "url": "https://maps.app.goo.gl/AbCdEf123" }] }'
```

The link has to point at one place (its page on Maps), not at a search or a map area. A place has no countries.

## What a mention carries

* `post.text`: the review. A rating left without words reads "Rated 4 of 5 stars, with no written review.", so it still shows, and still bills.
* `review.rating` (1 to 5), `review.response` and `review.responseAt`: the owner's reply, when there is one.
* `post.engagement.likes`: how many people found the review helpful.
* `author`: the reviewer's name, their Google Maps profile and picture, and how many reviews they have written (`authorPosts` in the audience).
* Sentiment comes from the stars and relevance from the keyword's kind; the classifier still adds the intent tags.

## Limits

* Google reviews only: reviews Google Maps shows from other sites are not collected.
* A place with more than 1,000 reviews a day is read up to its newest 1,000 a day.