jQuery Plugin to display Google Reviews of a Place on Google Maps
this will get the 5 reviews, google offers you. if you need more, let me direct you a bit: https://developers.google.com/my-business/content/review-data#list_all_reviews - but this will be a different project all by its own
I do not like jQuery!!!1eleven
The NPM Package is here - Frontend Devs will know how to webpack :) or simply extract the code and adapt it to your needs, dropping jQuery as a dependency.
Credits
Inspired by Steven Monson's magnificent article here: https://www.launch2success.com/guide/display-google-reviews-website-2017/ or check out Steven's github. Steven's code is based on peledies jquery plugin repo. So, I simply remixed their work into this repo. Thank you guys!
Dear beginners and copy-pasters
:octocat: For those of you, who are new in programming or can only copy-paste, please make sure, that jQuery, the Google Maps API and the .js-file of this plugin are successfully loaded, before you call this script in your html page.
./demo/index.html is a working demo, the comments will guide you 😉
Prerequisites
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You must have jQuery in your project: jQuery
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add the .js and .css of this repo to your project (see ./demo/index.html for inspiration 😉)
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if you do not have a working Google Maps API key already: create a Google API Key: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/ make sure to set a limit to your payments
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add the following line with your Google Maps API key with the key param:
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add an empty div element in your html template with an unique ID, where the reviews should show up. In this case:
<div id="google-reviews"></div>
How to get link to “View All Google Reviews” or "Write a review"
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Step 1. Open a browser, but don’t use Chrome. You can use Firefox, or Edge, or even Internet Explorer but not Google Chrome because it alters the URL and your link will not work correctly.
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Step 2. Go to Google.com and search for your company’s name.
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Step 3. Find the card on the right and click “View All Google Reviews” or "Write a review"
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Step 4. Copy the URL in the address bar.
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Step 5. Now paste the URL as a link on
more_reviews_button_url
orwrite_review_button_url
param.
Call the Plugin
Are Pull Requests welcome?
Yes, of course :octocat:
You do not need to update the demo folder! I will do this, when your code was merged.