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I am aware that the Google Places API returns only 5 reviews. However, I see some software that seems to read all reviews. Take a look at podium.co for example. They seem to be able to read all the reviews, otherwise there is no way for them to pull them in, other than scraping Google, which is of course a crazy thing to do if you are basing your whole business on the reviews.
So, my question is, how do they do it? Does having Premuim (paid) access to the Google Places API give you the option to read all reviews maybe? If not, how does Podium do it then?
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Save this answer. Show activity on this post. In order to have access to more than 5 reviews with the Google API you have to purchase Premium data Access from Google. That premium plan will grant you access to all sorts of additional data points you have to shell out a pretty penny.
Reminder: To use the Places API, you must enable billing on each of your projects and include an API key with all API or SDK requests. The Places API uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model.
Note that the place ID, used to uniquely identify a place, is exempt from the caching restriction. You can therefore store place ID values indefinitely.
I just spoke to a Google representative, and they told me that if I purchased Premium access to the API, then I can pull all reviews. The Premium access is for multiple APIs, and it gives you quite a lot of stuff to do that you can't do with the free access. There is however a catch though. Premium access costs $10,000 annually, payable upfront for the year. OUCH!!!
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