I'm working with a client who would like to integrate management of google reviews into an existing app (used by many franchise locations).
The problem is that I cannot figure out how to get access to review data from a 3rd party.
The "Google My Business API" requires filling out a form, and seems to be for your own business only. And obviously I don't want to have to ask every franchise to create a new API in the google API console so I can get access.
https://developers.google.com/my-business/reference/rest/
Each franchise has a google "my business" account they use to see reviews and manage their location, but that's it. No api access, etc.
Is there some way to get at these APIs with OAuth? How do reputation apps get access to this information?
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I have added a non-renewable subscription for one of my projects. We also started implementing the Google play developer API to get the subscription latest status from the Play Store. For that we have done the below steps as per this blog:
Linked the developer account to a new Google Cloud Project.
Enabled the Google Play Developer API for the Google Cloud Project.
Created a service account and created a key for the service account.
I have below clarifications related to this implementation:
I tried to Grant Access for the following permissions: But the corresponding checkmark is not clickable.
View financial data, orders, and cancellation survey responses
Manage orders and subscriptions
The 3rd step as per the blog is to Authorize an API key, but I didn't get a clear idea of that.
We are going to implement this API on the back end side as a corn job, do we need to generate a JWT token for accessing this API? Is this possible to call without a Token? I found 2 types of implementations from this blog, which one is easy and secure?
"Your application can complete these tasks either by using the Google APIs client library for your language or by directly interacting with the OAuth 2.0 system using HTTP."
From where we get the get API path and other details. I found a similar get API from AppStore like this. Is the play store providing a similar kind of get API?
We need the latest purchase status API and for that what parameters do we need to pass?
I am creating an app that allows users to rate businesses (who are our customers). The businesses would like the user reviews to be cross-posted to their Google Business Profile in addition to appearing as an in-app review in our ecosystem. Does anyone know if there is a way to embed a Google-blessed widget in a mobile app that would allow posting a review to the Google Business Profile?
New reviews can only be created via Google Maps UI or the Google Knowledge Graph UI. The Google Business Profile APIs only support listing and replying to reviews (https://developers.google.com/my-business/reference/rest/v4/accounts.locations.reviews).
So the closest way to get directly to posting a new review would be via this URL pattern:
https://search.google.com/local/writereview?placeid=<PLACE_ID>
e.g.
https://search.google.com/local/writereview?placeid=ChIJj61dQgK6j4AR4GeTYWZsKWw
Is it possible to display Google Reviews for a company that you don't own the Google My Business profile for?
My company works with local artists - many of whom have their own Google Business page.
They want to show the Google Business reviews on their site, but unless I'm reading the documentation incorrectly, you can only pull reviews for accounts you own and control.
If you do not have access to their business, you cannot get the reviews via "Google My Business", which makes sense. There is however also the Places API allowing you to request the 5 latest reviews of a business:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/details
How do I search for Zagat selected places only in Google Places api, as when I follow the docs and add zagatselected to the query, the results fail and give invalid request.
Notice: I'm a billing user (i.e. I enabled billing in the API Console)
To obtain Zagat data you have to become an enterprise user; just being a "billing user" is not enough.
Per Google: "The zagatselected parameter is experimental, and only available to Places API enterprise customers."
Become a Enterprise Customer
Some features of the Places API — such as review summaries, and certain request filters — requires additional licensing, available as part of a Places API enterprise license.
You can verify that your account has been enabled for Places API enterprise features as follows:
Visit the APIs Console and log in with your Google Account.
Select the project that was created for you when you signed up.
The project name will start with Google Maps APIs for Business.
Click the Services link from the left-hand menu.
The Places API - Zagat Content service should be enabled. Note that only the initial owner of the project will be able to see the Places API - Zagat Content service.
The Places API service should be disabled.
from Google Places API Document
A recent Ars Technica article rekindled my interest in WebOS so I was looking at the Services API (because I'm interested in building a replacement calendar app). I discovered the following text at the top of the calendar services API documentation:
Note: To prevent unauthorized use of
private user data, this API provides
access only to records created by your
application; that is, you cannot
access records owned by another
application.
What is the point of even having an API if you can't access data created by other applications? At that point there would be no reason for me to use their API rather than building the data storage myself. Am I missing something? Can any WebOS developers weigh in on this?
P.S. If they named their os "WebOS" you would think they'd know something about sane URLs. Check out that ridiculous calendar api doc url!!
The reason for the limited access is because of security, but not just that. Some services have agreements that limit how their data can be used. For example, having an API that would let a random webOS app access your Facebook calendar data would be working around the FaceBook terms of service that control how that data can be used. The same applies to LinkedIn, Google Calendar, and any other service from which the system is pulling information.
If you just need to post an occasional event, there's a better API to use that lets you cross-launch the calendar app with data that the user can accept into their own calendar. That way, you don't create your own bucket, but the user has to manually accept the event.
The reason to use the calendar APIs is to expose your own data to the user of the device. FlightView, for example, uses it to publish a calendar to the user of upcoming flights that he or she is interested in, and if those get rescheduled, it can automatically change them. The Fandango app uses this to push movie times for theaters the user likes into their calendar view. There's lots of possibilities.