ostapovich/google-reviews

A library for fetching Google reviews

v1.2.1 2024-08-21 14:38 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.0
• guzzlehttp/guzzle: ^7.4
• nesbot/carbon: ^3.0
• symfony/dom-crawler: ^7.1

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^11.2

MIT

• Andrii

README

This library fetches Google reviews for a specific place using PHP.

Installation

Install via Composer:

composer require ostapovich/google-reviews

Usage

For this packege your needs 2 urls. You can take them according to the following instructions, it is much easier than Google Business

Here's a basic example:

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Ostapovich\GoogleReview;

// Initialize the GoogleReview class
$googleReview = new GoogleReview();

// URL of the Google reviews page
$firstUrl = 'https://www.google.com/async/reviewDialog?ei=owqIZv3iLveJxc8PoPCzuAI&opi=89978449&yv=3&cs=1&async=feature_id:0x47e66e2964e34e2d%3A0x8ddca9ee380ef7e0,review_source:All%20reviews,sort_by:qualityScore,is_owner:false,filter_text:,associated_topic:,next_page_token:,async_id_prefix:,_pms:s,_fmt:pc'; // Your First URL here, i add paris
$secondUrl = 'https://www.google.com/async/reviewSort?vet=12ahUKEwj9mbuqlZCHAxWlRvEDHTCpD10Qxyx6BAgBEBU..i&ved=2ahUKEwj9mbuqlZCHAxWlRvEDHTCpD10Qjit6BQgBEKsE&bl=UndH&s=web&opi=89978449&yv=3&cs=1&async=feature_id:0x47e66e2964e34e2d%3A0x8ddca9ee380ef7e0,review_source:All%20reviews,sort_by:newestFirst,is_owner:false,filter_text:,associated_topic:,next_page_token:,_pms:s,_fmt:pc'; // Your Second URL here here, i add paris

try {
    // Fetch all reviews
    $reviews = $googleReview->getReviewsAll($secondUrl, 3); // if you need all reviews do not specify the second parameter

    // Output reviews
    foreach ($reviews as $review) {
        echo "Name: " . $review['name'] . "\n";
        echo "Rating: " . $review['rating'] . "\n";
        echo "Review: " . $review['text'] . "\n\n";
    }
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Error: ' . $e->getMessage();
}

// Get general location, rating, and count
$this->getRating($this->getCrawlerObj($firstUrl));
$this->getReviewsCount($this->getCrawlerObj($firstUrl));

Methods

• getReviewsAll(string $url,int $page = 0): array|\Exception

  • Fetches all reviews from the provided URL.

• getCrawlerObj(string $url): Crawler|\Exception

  • Creates a Crawler object for the provided URL.

• getNextReviewsPage(string $nextPageUrl, int $page = 0): string|\Exception

  • Fetches the HTML content of the next page of reviews.

• getNextPageToken(Crawler $crawler): string|null|\Exception

  • Extracts the data-next-page-token from the HTML content.

• getRating(Crawler $crawler)

  • Extracts the overall rating from the HTML content.

• getReviews(Crawler $crawler): array|\Exception

  • Extracts the reviews from the HTML content.

• getReviewsIds(Crawler $crawler): array|\Exception

  • Extracts the review IDs from the HTML content.

• getReviewsCount(Crawler $crawler): int|null|\Exception

  • Extracts the total number of reviews from the HTML content.

• getReviewsTexts(Crawler $crawler): array|\Exception

  • Extracts the review texts from the HTML content.

• getReviewsReply(Crawler $crawler): array|\Exception

  • Extracts the review replies from the HTML content.

• getReviewsNames(Crawler $crawler): array|\Exception

  • Extracts the reviewer names from the HTML content.

• getReviewsRatings(Crawler $crawler): array|\Exception

  • Extracts the review ratings from the HTML content.

• getProfilesImg(Crawler $crawler): array

  • Extracts the profile Img's from the HTML content.